Huffington Magazine Issue 62 | Page 11

Enter Carrie at the prom and then laughed in anticipation of the big joke they were about to pull, only in this case, “America” is Carrie. “HAR DE HAR, THERE’S GONNA BE PIG BLOOD EVERYWHERE!” is what the people at ABC News said when they hatched the idea of airing an interview with Donald Trump. Louis Gohmert also made things terrible for everyone. Right now, the GOP leadership is trying to tamp down the idea that they’d be willing to shut down the government unless they get an agreement from Democrats to defund Obamacare. At the end of last week, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor — no weak-willed compromiser! — was strongly signaling that everyone needed to take a chill pill. So naturally, ABC went out and got a guy that they knew would say something like this: STEPHANOPOULOS: Do you think you have the votes to defund Obamacare? It doesn’t appear like that’s... GOHMERT: No. Not right now. But we’ll see after August after people go home. Louis, call Eric Cantor’s office! Meanwhile, over at the Meet LOOKING FORWARD IN ANGST HUFFINGTON 08.18.13 the Press, King was on, defending his remark, “For everyone who’s a valedictorian, there’s another 100 out there who weigh 130 pounds — and they’ve got calves the size of cantaloupes because they’re hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert.” There was never a moment that Gregory gave any suggestion that resolving this I wake up in the morning and see that I’m going to have to sit through a segment with Donald Trump and my reservoir of ‘willingness to go on living’ just evaporates.” weeks-old matter was important to journalism or immigration reform or anything. King was doing so, just because David Gregory wanted him to come on Meet the Press so that everyone could watch King flop his gob over this matter one last time. Ana Navarro, a GOP strategist, thankfully decided that she’d heard enough. “I think Congressman King should go get himself some therapy for his melon fixation,” she said. “I think there might