For weeks now, we've been watching the White House press corps wander into presidential briefings in

complete ignorance, ask the same questions in an attempt to make the president look bad,

and get smacked in the face with their own stupidity in a manner reminiscent of an old

Vaudeville comedian who steps on one end of a floorboard in such a way that the other end

levers up and cobras him. And sure, it's been fun. For some of us, American journalism takes us

back to those bygone days when we'd sit on a Saturday morning watching Wiley Coyote try to catch

a road runner only to have his latest acme device blow up in his face and send him plummeting

over a cliff until he either smacks into the earth or ends up hosting a weekend show on NBC,

whichever is most humiliating. But since journalists aren't doing anything else worthwhile,

I thought I would make a few suggestions of other ways they could entertain us throughout the

lockdown. For one thing, maybe they could organize a sort of Hunger Games-type competition

with people like Chuck Todd, Jim Acosta, and Norro Donald hunt each other down over a savage

unforgiving landscape until only one is left, who can then be put to good use as a kitchen

scullion or human sacrifice. Or we could have a game show where George Stephanopoulos, NBC News,

Chairman Andrew Lack, and former NBC anger anchor Matt Lauer try to guess the names of the women

who's abuse they facilitated by spiking stories about Bill Clinton, Jeffrey Epstein, and Harvey

Weinstein, or in Lauer's case just by abusing them directly. And finally, they could all participate

in one of those church fundraiser-type dunking games where they sit on a wobbly board over a pool

of water and we throw baseballs at a target until we knock them in. This would be cheap and easy

and could be set up in just as much time as it takes to boil the water. Trigger warning, I'm Andrew

Clayvin, and this is the Andrew Clayvin Show.

There's a famous story about the French king Louis XVI that the start of the French Revolution,

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