Wherein I take undeserved credit for influencing television's best political coverage and potentially changing the course of human history forever:
Last Sunday, I suggested a strategery for beating John McCain: paint him as a real-life version of Grandpa Simpson.
Some commenters with an even better recall of Simpsons quotes than me mentioned Grandpa Simpson's semi-famous line "So I tied an onion to my belt -- which was the style at the time...".
I figured this was the perfect example of what I was aiming for, so I stole their idea and decided to call this strategy "Onion-Belting". It's got a nice ring to it, don't it?
48 hours later, The Daily Show leads with a nearly perfect example of serving McCain a huge can of Onion-Belting. At first, I was like, "wow, they had the same idea I had." But towards the end, it becomes almost unnervingly (though hilariously) similar to my suggestion.
Don't believe me? Watch Jon Stewart totally onion-belt John McCain's nostalgia-thon and tell me it's not freaky.
A rational person would conclude this, delightful though it may be, nothing more than a simple coincidence easily explained by both current events and 20 years of The Simpson's consistent popularity. I choose to presume that Jon Stewart personally read my post and said "Staff!!! Get on this now!!!"
And further, I assume this will be the pivotal moment of this election. McCain's Waterloo, if you will. You're welcome, Barack. I expect a cabinet post out of this, "Secretary of Snark" sounds about right.
(seriously, though, it is just a coincidence. An awesome one, but a coincidence nonetheless)