Parody
Parody ABC News was on the defensive last week when personality Barbara Walters began plugging Campbell's soup on her morning talk show, The View. In one show Walters asked audience members,...
...Here's R:ter Jennings in New YoA, the city so nice they named it twice...
...JENNINGS: Good evening...
...We're toM they're particularly fond of Harveys Bristol Creme over at Bush headquarters, which as you may know has been a favorite potation, as they call it, of the Bush family for generations...
...Spokeswoman Karen Hughes ate six during her press briefing today—that's how yummy these little buggers are...
...Peter...
...In fact, if Chairman Daley calls now, he and our other viewers will be able to take advantage of this exciting one-time offer: Buy three gallons of Rogaine, get the fourth for free...
...In one show Walters asked audience members, "Didn't we grow up eating Campbell's soup...
...The audience responded with a chorus of M'm M'm Good...
...Daley is a pretty good candidate, as it were, for the Hair Club For Men...
...DOUGLASS: Peter, once the Gore people heard the news, campaign chairman Bill Daley appeared jubilant . . . JENNINGS: Linda, speaking of campaigns, wouldn't you say that Mr...
...JENNINGS: Thank you, Ann Compton in Florida, wearing a lovely Ferragamo scarf, available this week only at Bloomingdale's and selected outlets...
...As always, George's analysis is brought to us by the Democratic National Committee...
...News item ANNOUNCER: This is World News Tonight with Peter Jennings...
...COMPTON: Not as bad as you might imagine, Peter...
...Linda rncMemaUy, wearing a quite provocative lace teddy from our friends at Victoria's Secret—who were also, in the interests of full disclosure, kind enough to provide the male girdle I'm wearing right now...
...COMPTON: it's been another long day here in Austin, Peter, and Bush offkrnk tell ABC News that when they're feeling tired, they reach for PowerBar, the low-fat pick-me-up f°r people on the go...
...video] KAREN HUGHES: Mmmffmpppffmm...
...In a moment—after this commercial message— ABC News analyst George Stephanopoulos...
...Harvey's: for the times of your life...
...The Florida supreme court has complicated an already complicated picture by issuing an order that has Bush forces riled...
...COMPTON: So that's the picture from Austin...
...Linda...
...For the latest, we go first to Ann Compton, with the Bush campaign in Austin, Texas...
...DOUGLASS: indeed, Peter...
...Peter...
...The shocking thing about this is that nobody is trying to disguise it...
...We begin tonight with the continuing saga of the vote count in PIotM^ home of delicious Florida orange juice—a day without which, incidentally is like a day without sunshine...
...The Gore campaign had a good deal to say about the court ruling, too, and for that we go down to Linda Douglass in Tallahassee...
...There's always a sneaky way to do product placement . . . but this is absolutely shameless...
...TENNINGS: Linda Douglass from Tallahassee, thank you...
...You wouldn't think modern TV would go this far," one critic told the Wall Street Journal...
...A large number of the Bush people down here began drinking almost immediately after the order came down...
...Operators are standing by...
...Peter...
...JENNINGS: Ann, how is the campaign taking this latest setback from the Florida supreme court...
Vol. 6 • November 2000 • No. 11
