This just in - from North Korea

[RICHARD]

"The door opened and there was President Clinton."


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The local news just released the news that Paula Abdul will not be coming back to American Idol.

She is going to North Korea as part of a deal for the two 'journalists' that were released.

Kim Jung Il is producing a show where he will compete against himself as the next Korean Idol and he specifically asked that Paula be sent in exchange for the captured women.

Al Gore, the loser of the "Next American President" competition, would not confirm or deny the report.

[Grace]

"The door opened and there was President Clinton."

I just read that account - can you even imagine what must have gone through their minds when they saw him !!

I'm so glad they are back home, with their families.

[RICHARD]

Ling: THANK GOD I'M HOME! I HAD to sit next to Bill the whole flight home-Talk about a tense trip!

I am sorry for being so glib- It was cool they got out and I bet that either one of them might have thought, "Hmmmm, Bill or Labor Camp, Bill or Labor Camp...I'll take my chances with Bill....."

I also had to laugh about the statements in the media about HC not being there to escort the group back to the U.S.

She should have, to make sure nothing 'untoward' happened on the plane.

[Grace]

How it came about.

[RICHARD]

How it came about.

Why does the headline of the story make me laugh?

[Edwina's Secretary]

Tough crowd! I wonder...if Walter Cronkite had been taken captive while in say...Viet Nam....would he have been called a bimbo for being there? Do you think he went to Viet Nam to get a book deal? Or should that be the ubiquitous...."moron"....

Anyway...if these journalist write a book about their experience...I am sure it will be a far more interesting one than Ms. Palin will write about her abbreviated experience as a "cut and run" governor!