What's in a Smile?
Friday, August 12, 2005 - 10:25 AM
Somewhere in the 90s, a woman's looks stopped being the main criterion by which to judge her as a politician. Around the same time, the physical appearance of male pols began to matter in a way it never had before. Today we have John Bolton, who “desperately needs a haircut” and Mitt Romney, who looks “like the actor Ted Danson...only handsomer and more wholesome.” Is it getting out of hand?
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I hear there are lots of great barbers in New York
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Danson is an actor, I'm the real thing
Today guest host Mike Pesca speaks with two of the culprit-journalists, Sridhar Pappu of the Atlantic Monthly and Robin Givhan of the Washington Post
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[hottestussenator has some ideas]
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