Senator Al D'Amato: The Pork Song

Senator Al D'Amato: The Pork Song

Comedy Central

1994

Politics

VHS
C+

Another random thing that my by then ex put on a WLIIA tape, this has the Republican Senator adapting "Old MacDonald" to criticize President Clinton.  About as good as that sounds.

inAuguration 93: America Gets the Bill

inAuguration 93: America Gets the Bill

Comedy Central

January 20, 1993

Politics

VHS
C+

Clinton gets inaugurated, with "Live - eight hours later" coverage from CC.  Al Franken wears a top hat and says things going to and from commercial, but most of the commentary is chyrons.  Sometimes dull, but has its moments.  And, yes, we're basically in the mid '90s now, although that won't be immediately obvious.

inDecision 92: In Review

Franken, Henry, and Behar

inDecision 92: In Review

Comedy Central

January 20, 1993

Politics

VHS

B

CC presents highlights of the campaign, in preparation for their inaugural coverage....

inDecision 92: Election Night: Fragment

inDecision 92: Election Night: Fragment
Comedy Central
November 3, 1992
Politics
VHS
B-

Future Senator Al Franken and company, including Joy Behar, Roy Blount, Jr. and Buck Henry, cover Bill Clinton's election from a humorous and decidedly Democratic angle.  There are some slow moments, but it's worth watching again for things like footage of Calvin Trillin at the Republican Convention interviewing "the wrong George Bush," i.e. the giddy, somewhat goofy eldest son of the President.  Note that CC used this opportunity to promote not only Gaffney's Women Aloud but three of the classic sitcoms it was then airing:  Bilko, Car 54, and That Girl.  (I don't have enough space to tag Phil Silvers, but, yes, he was also on a great episode of Gilligan's Island.)

Jerry Brown at the Democratic National Convention

Jerry Brown at the Democratic National Convention
C-SPAN
July 15, 1992
Politics
VHS
B

The once and future Governor of California speaks with passion and idealism about economic class, including disagreeing with Perot that there's such a thing as "a billion-dollar populist."  His followers looked enraptured, everyone else distracted, including by Kennedy and Jackson.  The band does "California Here I Come" as the intro and the Monty Python theme as the outro.  (OK, it's John Philip Sousa's "Liberty March" but it caught me by surprise a quarter century ago.)

1964 Campaign Ads

1964 Campaign Ads

VH1

Fall of 1964

Politics

VHS

C+

Three of the videos from the '64 campaign, alas missing the "Daisy Chain" and the one where actor William Bogert did "Confessions of a Republican."  Reagan says that he gets boiling mad when people say Goldwater has a temper, and no one points out the irony.  These videos were taped off of My Generation.