What State are you Secretary of?

by matt at 6:30 am on March 17th, 2004 in Politics

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Get it while you can, most likely this will be our one and only Jessica Simpson mention:

From the Washington Post

“[Jessica] Simpson, whose verbal gaffes are also legendary, pulled another one Sunday visiting the White House, our sources say. The singer was introduced to Interior Secretary Gale Norton and gushed: ‘You’ve done a nice job decorating the White House.’ “

No word on whether Simpson’s husband and former boy-band tool Nick Lachey complimented Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman on harvesting the vegetables for the evening’s dinner.

But, as they say, “out of the mouths of babes”…Norton and Veneman are really only qualified to choose wallpaper and pick produce, respectively.

Other out-takes from the Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica go to Washington episode:

  • Jessica to the Secretary of Labor: We’re thinking about having kids soon, is childbirth really painful?
  • Nick to the Secretary of Defense: Do you think zone or man-to-man is better?
  • Jessica to the Director of Central Intelligence: Are you like, really smart and stuff?
  • Nick to the Secretary of the Treasury: Do you get to meet a lot of pirates?
  • Jessica to the Secretary of Education: What do you do?
  • Nick to the Secretary of Energy: Sometimes I get tired after lunch. What should I do?
  • Jessica to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs: Is it really OK for animal doctors to be unfaithful?

    Someone please stop these tracksuits from procreating.

    • Comments

    1. evan wrote:

      Two things:

      1. When I read the JS quote in WaPo’s Reliable Sources online column yesterday, I quite literally fell out of my chair laughing.

      2. When I a group of my friends the latest Jessicaism yesterday afternoon (before we saw Starsky and Hutch), my friend Leslie almost choked to death on a Milk Dud from laughing so hard.

      Funniest. Quote. Ever. — At least for this week.

      Posted 17 Mar 2004 at 10:10 am

    2. Jason (1115) wrote:

      Actually, I hear that Rummy runs a mean Nickel package.

      (huh huh huh….he said “package”)

      Posted 17 Mar 2004 at 12:07 pm

    3. Existential Boy wrote:

      at what point does making fun of airhead celebrities start seeming like shooting fish in a barrel? I love pointing out the abject stupidity of those whose prim visages we’re forced to see every time we open our eyes as much as the next guy, but, really, where does it get us?

      Posted 19 Mar 2004 at 12:27 pm

    4. Jason (1115) wrote:

      Hey, it comes down to this: this post was funny. End of story.

      It doesn’t matter if it “gets us anywhere”—Not every post has to be a grand life-changing statement. And as far as shooting fish in a barrel…well, those fish were dumb enough to get in the barrel in the first place.

      Posted 20 Mar 2004 at 1:11 am

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