The Kids in the Hall, cont...
Then there was Greg Simon,
the traveling policy adviser, who spent the final two months on the trail
providing the press with a daily song. "Hello press pool my old friend./ The
long campaign week's at an end," he sang at the end of Gore's
work-around-the-clock Labor Day trek, to the tune of Simon and Garfunkel's
"Sounds of Silence." "We've been assaulted by a wet tarmac./ We ate our way
through a cheese-steak attack ..." A welcome relief from the weighty world of
lockboxes.