Brendan Nyhan

Great moments in morning television

This is what happens when you get up at 4 AM every day (courtesy of the Weekly Standard):

Couric: I’m Katie Couric, here with Lester Holt, Ann Curry, and Al Roker…

Curry: Also ahead, a controversial new book is out today that may be trying to rewrite American history. In it, sex researcher C.A. Tripp–it claims that President Clinton may have been gay.

Couric: No, no, no. Lincoln.

Roker: Lincoln.

Curry: Lincoln, President Lincoln. [Laughter.]

Roker: Wow!

Curry: Never have a woman come back from–I am so jet lagged.

Roker: Wow!

Curry: President Lincoln may have been gay.

Couric: Hillary’s on the phone for you.

Curry: I know. So sorry, Mr. Clinton. I’m so sorry, Mr. President.