To all of those who thought Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich is the pits, here is a related story. He is suing for $150,000 because he bit into a sandwich wrap three years ago that had an unpitted olive rather than a pitted olive. Here’s CNN’s Anderson Cooper — who sticks in a joke that is good to see in too frequently staid news reporting…and shows q video that suggests perhaps Kucinich was not as grievously disabled as his lawsuit claimed he was:
Note that Kucinich declined CNN’s offer to respond to their report.
P.S.: What is this about people in Congress wanting to rein in frivolous lawsuits?
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.