I Liked Jennifer Granholm Better When She Was on 'The Dating Game'

Shikha Dalmia, an actual resident of Michigan, did not enjoy former Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm's spirited speech at the Democratic National Convention as much as I did, for reasons she ably lays out here. However, I think all of America can rally around Granholm's 1978 appeaance on "The Dating Game":

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[John]

Granholm is quite attractive.

[The Hammer]

WTF? She has a perfectly round head and dagger teeth. She looks like a fat alligator.

[Almanian's Evil Twin]

"was", John.

She's a dried up shrew now. She still has the gigundomoles. So there is that.

[John]

Decades of stupidity and hatred will do that to you. Yeah, she has not aged well at all. There is something about being a liberal shrew that affects women as they get older.

[R C Dean]

As a classmate of hers, I can confirm that time has not been kind. She was quite the cutie back in the day, even allowing for the lack of competition in law school.

[Pro Libertate]

She's Harvard Law?

[R C Dean]

Yep.

Yet another one devaluing my degree every time she opens her yap.

[John]

Unless she is a legacy, she pretty is a walking talking repudiation of the idea that the only the best and the brightest go there.

[R C Dean]

There are no legacies at Harvard Law. Exhibit A: JFK Jr. applied and was rejected.

[John]

So JFK Jr. didn't have the kind of stupid needed?

[Pro Libertate]

At the time, one of my Harvard friends said he must be some kind of idiot to not somehow get in as a Kennedy.

[Randian]

There are no legacies at Harvard Law.

Pffft. Sure, OK.

[R C Dean]

That may be a bit of an overstatement and I can't say what they do now, but a good friend's wife worked in the admissions department while I was there, and seriously, they didn't do favors for people or I would have heard about it. I mean, c'mon, JFK Jr. was bounced.

I suspect it also had something to do with the fact that all the grading was anonymous, so shepherding a legacy through would have required a level of fraud that even the HLS admin would have balked at.

[Pro Libertate]

That's not true for undergrad, though. It can't be. I know some morons from Harvard.

[Ken Shultz]

That whole Dating Game aesthetic is why we invented punk rock.

Jesus, even now when I see it, it makes me want to break something.

[Tim Cavanaugh]

There's some documentary about punk where Legs McNeil goes off on one of his rants against the earth-tone look of the seventies, then describes, in tones of awe and deliverance, the original entrance of the Ramones, wearing all black and looking seven feet tall, at CBGBs: "It was like the SS had just walked in!"

[invisible furry hand]

Stop hating on The Dating Game or Chuck Barris will take his bloody revenge

[Fluffy]

70's TV footage makes me wonder why anyone thinks we have to protect our culture from the Messicans.

We lived in Mexico once. All of us, born before 1980.

[John]

It is Sabado Gigante's world. We just live in it.

[Paul.]

I'd like to live in Mexico again...

A culture which uses any excuse to throw misunpossibly attractive women on my TV screen is always appreciated.

[o3]

id hide the salam, then lie about it

[sloopyinca]

^^This^^ is about what I'd expect from you, Urine. An incoherent mess of idiom and idiocy jumbled into a word salad and shot out like a symphony of dog farts.

[Paul.]

He was making a middle-eastern play on words. Get it? "Salam"?

Either that or you're spot on.

[Fluffy]

Look at this shit. Nobody but Jennifer bathed that day. That guy's purple tux would not look out of place on a Tijuana street person.

America, 1978 = Mexico. When the illegals cross the border, they're bringing us not a foreign culture, but our own past.

[Spartacus]

That guy's purple tux would not look out of place on a Tijuana street person.

Hey now, careful. I wore that tux to prom.

[The Late P Brooks]

Is it just my imagination, or does she look like the Bride of Chucky in that screen cap?

[Zombie Jimbo]

My thoughts exactly. We now find that Chucky is actually the UAW.

[Ptah-Hotep]

That screen cap looks like something from the Rupaul show.

[viper3579]

Back in the 70s and early 80s nearly all the "contestants" on game shows were struggling actors. Any know if Granholm's "job" in PR was just a cover for her inability to be a starlet?

[Matt Welch]

Just like participants in "reality shows" these days.

[Voros McCracken]

Right. Though Andy Kaufman's appearance on the Dating Game is legend:

You don't sound like Santa Claus

[JW]

I keep waiting for the day when Andy shows up to let us in on the joke of his "death."

Just by sheer chance, I managed to watch both of his legendary staged fights on TV shows: the one with Michael Richards on Fridays ewhere he trashed the set and the one with Jerry Lawler on Letterman. Priceless shit.

[The Late P Brooks]

Yet another one devaluing my degree every time she opens her yap.

She's small potatoes, in that regard; there's another prominent alum who's REALLY dragging down the brand.

[Kaptious Kristen]

She's Canukistanian?!?!!?

[John]

Yes. A few liberals bemoan the fact that she can't run for President. No kidding.

[tarran]

Yes, because we need the effects that the Granholm miracle touch visited on Michigan to be distributed across the U.S.

[Drake]

Yes - they sent her down here on a successful infiltration mission to destroy a major American, city, state and industrial sector. A brilliant op all the way around for the Canadians.

[The Hammer]

Ladies and Gentlemen, the best of Jennifer Granholm:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....86481.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....31336.html

Yes, the mendacious bitch really is that stupid.

[John]

I saw her a couple of years ago on some talking head show. She said that they had tried deregulation and cutting spending in Michigan and it hadn't worked.

I am not kidding. She actually said that.

[Ted Levy]

Frankly, not as good as the one where Steve Jobs was a contestant...

[Jack-it]

Do you know, there is a good chance, that right now, right now at 11:00am PST, somewhere in the valley, there filming a porno of Jennifer and Sarah going at it in a governors office.
Like, "How do you fill your budget DEFIECTS? Sarah" "The same way we fill the potHOLES in Wasilla." Close up, back and forth. "Let me show you how" key music...
Wow.