In terms of elephantine self-denial and self-aggrandizement, this video is hard to beat: Ralph Nader lamenting the media's coverage (or lack thereof) of his presidential aspirations by talking to a parrot.

(See, that's the joke - Nader complains that the media parrots the corporate line. Get it? Either that or the parrot's the last creature in America who believe's Nader's claim that there's not a dime's worth of difference between George W. Bush and Al Gore.)





That's not just any parrot. It's Cardozo, the pet bird of former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson. (Anderson told the Deseret News that he'd probably vote for Nader, a safe choice given the state's Republican stranglehold. "Given the Electoral College, I probably will vote for him because my vote isn't going to make any difference in Utah. As usual.")