Voice Over: "Ladies and Gentleman give it up for Jerry Springer"
(Camera pans through audience showing the usual collection of crooked teeth, wide waistbands, and slogan emblazoned sweatshirts, standing and yelling their exultation for the ringmaster.)
(Camera Two shows wide shot of stage as small white haired figure holding microphone strides onto stage waving, face creased with a big smile. As camera tightens focus we see off to one side stage prompter quickly change Applause sign to Sit sign. Camera continues to tighten focus until three-quarter shot of Host fills lens. One final wave and smile before opening speech.)
Jerry: "We don't normally do political shows, but today we thought we'd have a slight change of pace because this story has it all. Betrayal, backroom deals, scandal, broken promises, and lies." (Sounds of oohs and ahhs from audience.)
Jerry: "Let me fill you in on the background before we bring out our guests tonight. Up in Canada (scattered cheers from audience indicating either token Canadians or somebody's heard of it) they just had an election. Being foreign, they do things differently from us and elect something they call Members of Parliament from the various parties. The party that wins the most Members elected forms the government: everybody with me so far?
(Audience makes muted sounds of consent: Uh-huhs and yeahs ring out.)
Jerry: "That's good because it's going to get a bit tricky now. (Sounds of groans of complaint) Don't worry it's nothing smart folks like you can't follow (general laughter and small cheer of acknowledgement). Okay, the Conservative Party won more seats than anyone else but they didn't win enough to control the government, if all the other parties voted against them they wouldn't be able to pass bills into law."
Jerry: "Now like us, they have a Cabinet of people who head up different posts in government. But unlike us, these people are supposed to come from people who have been elected by the winning party. But what the Conservatives did is ask a member of another party, someone who was a Cabinet member from the last government, to change parties and join their Cabinet. (Expressions of surprise from audience.)
Article comments
1 - Dave Nalle
Is it just me or is this post almost entirely meaningless to anyone outside of Canada? But it did conjure up the appealing image of exiling Springer north of the border.
Dave
2 - gypsyman
Ah, but that's only fair since so much of the political reporting on this site is meaningless to anyone outside of the States...
I don't thing we want Springer anymore than you do.
gypsyman
3 - Dave Nalle
You know you can listen to Springer 5 days a week on Air America Radio - even in Canada.
Dave