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THE WAR ON XMA$

Fox News is right. There is a war on XMA$. And one of the dastardly fiends behind the hostilities is me. I’m stuffed to the gills with incorrect holiday sentiments here and I’ve only been to a mall a couple times. The first holly covered trigger that set me off, was the flacking for this shopping season began the week before Halloween. Red and green bumped orange and black.

That’s not right. Not to mention the whole turkey thing getting shunted behind a deluge of commercials featuring a car with a giant red bow on it. No, that’s not going to stir up the vanishing middle class at all. Repeatedly imagining other people buying each other LEXUSES as gifts. And now, NOW, the retail industry is not happy with the degree of greed with which we’ve been consumed, so before the Yule Log has even been lit much less embered down, they’re already pushing AFTER- XMA$ SALES. Hey, settle down. We got a couple days to go here. Okay, I’ve lost and XMA$ has won.

I’ve come to the dark side and realize that if I don’t do everything I can to make sure corporate America has a Merry XMA$, the terrorists will win. So, in the spirit of giving till it hurts, let me offer up to the least deserving of us my annual scathingly incisive yet perennially trenchant, WILL DURST’S 2005 XMA$ GIFT WI$H LI$T.

•       For Former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich: who says he’s thinking of running for the Presidency in 2008. Second thoughts.

•       For hotel heiress Paris Hilton: a year long sabbatical in Khazakstan. Actually, that gift is for the rest of us.

•       For Bill O’Reilly: a four day all expenses paid trip to the Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco.

•       For Gavin Newsom: a copy of the unrated version of “Requiem for a Dream” so he can see what sexist and offensive really looks like.

•       For Hillary Clinton: A new best seller entitled “It Takes an Impeachment.”

•       For the Democratic Senate: The gumption to continue the fight for the rights of minorities. Even if the main minority they’re fighting for these days is themselves.

•       For San Francisco Police Chief Heather Fong: a sense of humor.

•       For Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice: One blessedly quiet year in a Donald Rumsfeld free- zone.

•       For the Democratic House of Representatives: a spine.

•       For George W Bush: an approval rating higher than his average test scores in college.

•       For Televangelist Pat Robertson: A Clue Train Fast Pass so he can ride for free for 30 days.

•       For Supreme Court Justice nominee Samuel Alito: A Harriet Miers Swimsuit Calendar.

•       For Cindy Sheehan: whatever it takes to prompt more cries from Rush Limbaugh that she’s just a polticial tool.

•       For Harriet Miers, Bush’s personal lawyer who called him the smartest man she ever met: a round trip ticket to anywhere she wants as long as its not Texas.

•       For Vice President Dick Cheney: a 5 gallon tub of sneer removal.

•       For Barbara Bush: less photo- ops (and I only remember one.)

•       For Alaska Senator Ted Stevens: the permission to drill for oil in his own butt.

•       For the King of Pop Michael Jackson: enough sense to stay the hell in Bahrain.

•       For California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger: a shoehorn necklace to assist in his chronic Foot- in- Mouth disease.

•       For all members of our Armed Forces currently involved in this  mission to extricate our oil out from under their sand: a safe return and yes, that does include our mine- sniffing dolphins. Political comic Will Durst is willing to help Senator Stevens out. Personally.


DON’T FORGET! WILL DURST. WILLIE BROWN. THE WILL & WILLIE SHOW. STARTING JANUARY 2ND. MON- FRI. 7- 10 AM.
960 AM. THE QUAKE.

AND, THE BIG FAT YEAR END KISS OFF COMEDY SHOW. DECEMBER 26TH THROUGH THE 31ST. WILL DURST, JIM SHORT, DEB & MIKE, STEVE KRAVITZ AND ARTHUR GAUS. WILLDURST.COM or 415 820 9628 FOR DETAILS

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Will Drust  five-time Emmy nominee and host/co-producer of the ongoing award winning PBS series "Livelyhood" is also a regular commentator on NPR and CNN, and has appeared on every comedy show featuring a brick wall including Letterman, Comedy Central, HBO and Showtime, receiving 7 consecutive nominations for the American Comedy Awards Stand Up of the Year. Hobbies include the never-ending search for the perfect cheeseburger, while his heroes remain the same from when he was twelve: Thomas Jefferson and Bugs Bunny. [experted from Will Drust Bio]

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