Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Sort of powerful

My ambivalence about Jeopardy tournaments is on record. Except for the Tournament of Champions, I'm not crazy about the stunts.

So it's with some trepidation that I blog about the "Power Players" week taping this Saturday in Washington, D.C. for May 14-18. If you're expecting Obama and Romney, you'll be disappointed. The powerful contestants are mostly the same media folks you've been watching for years, like the pictured Chris Wallace. Nothing wrong with media folks, of course. Some of my best friends are...well, actually that's not true.

Anyway, the full list: CNN's Anderson Cooper, former L.A. Laker Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Fox News' Chris Wallace, comedian Lewis Black, CNBC's David Faber, the New York Times' Thomas Friedman, former White House press secretaries Robert Gibbs and Dana Perino, BBC's Katty Kay, MSNBC's Chris Matthews, NBC News' Kelly O'Donnell and Chuck Todd, CNN's Lizzie O'Leary, Dr. Mehmet Oz and the Chicago Tribune's Clarence Page.

Lewis Black, Dr. Oz and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar? They may be power players...in some alternative power universe. If you want the real Washington power types, you can check C-SPAN.

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