Amazingly, their count
matched my real-time quick count almost exactly, which means neither of us were
actually doing any drinking. They had a few more than me under a
If you didn't have over 3 gallons of vodka, you ran out long
before the game was over.
couple of areas that are personal judgment -- like if the First Lady was smiling or if it was actually half of Congress applauding.
The truth is anyone actually
doing the drinking would have been gone in the first 15 minutes. Terror
and terrorist (32 times total) were repeated 25 times in the first 15 minutes,
five more times in the next five minutes, then only twice in the remainder of the
speech. If you didn't have at least five shots lined up on the table, you
missed a few. If you didn't have over 3 gallons of vodka, you ran out long
before the game was over.
Interesting, they showed the
First Lady six times, and Hillary Rodham Clinton four times. In a case of a
potentially confused camera-man or an director with a sense of humor, President
Bush thanked his wife for his support, and after showing Laura for a couple of
seconds, they switched to Hillary for a couple more seconds.
A big point winner in the
game was a speech under an hour. According to the ABC News counters, the
speech was 48 minutes without applause, but there were 75 individual applause
sessions.
Overall, for anyone who
didn't want to watch the State of the Union, but had to sit through it, your
misery was short. At least till Wednesday morning.
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