U.S. Senator Carl Levin, Democrat, Michigan, has ditched his awful, silly combover! Is Gergen next?

See how Ehud Olmert’s looks improved dramatically when he got rid of his awful combover in 2006? Following in footsteps of NY Mayor Rudy Guiliani. Now US Senator as seen on CNN on July 14, 2008, has lost his combover, too, and he looks so much better! When will David “PR guru” Gergen see the light and get rid of his combover, too? When he’s good and ready, that’s when. And that’s okay. Give him time. He’s only 66. These things take time.

Dear David Gergen,

SEE COMBOVER IN ACTION HERE:
http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=32z6Cw21OAk

Your recent TV appearances on CNN with Larry King and Anderson Cooper have moved me to write to you on a personal matter that has been troubling me about you for sometime.

I too had the misfortune to lose my hair, as is the way with so many men of a certain age. I too chose to artfully comb what remained in an attempt to conceal the fact. There were certain angles from which you could view me (usually if you were sitting and I wasn’t) where you genuinely couldn’t tell that I had lost my hair - or at least, at my most delusional, I could persuade myself thus.

However, the combover years were not happy ones. Sport in particular gave rise to much awkwardness, as it gave my opponents plenty of ammunition with which to unsettle me. I often rose majestically into the air to head a football, and then faced the anxiety of starting the Bobby Charlton rearrangements even before my feet had hit the ground. [Bobby Charlton was one of the stars of England's 1966 World Cup-winning soccer team, who lost his hair at a young age and resorted to ever-more-elaborate combover arrangements in a ludicrously vain effort to conceal the fact; readers might wish to substitute, say, Rudy Giuliani.]

A gust of wind was also incredibly unwelcome, unmasking me as it did in front of total strangers.

My anguish was put to an end one afternoon, when a colleague at work put his pencil down and said: “I simply cannot sit here a minute longer with your hair looking like that.”

He took me by the hand and sat me down in a barber’s shop with the simple but life-transforming instruction to the man in charge - “Take it off.”

It was interesting that, phoney as the combover had been, and as much I knew in my heart that it fooled no one, it still took my colleague to force the issue. This took place a dozen years ago, and I have often reflected how deeply I am indebted to my now former colleague; how he released me from such tension and awkwardness.

Mr. Gergen, I would like to perform the same role for you. I simply cannot scream “Take it off!” at the CNN TV screen anymore. Believe me, it is a liberating and life-affirming experience. Unafraid of being unmasked, you will have an immediate spring in your step, a key stress release for any TV talking head or PR guru.

You are going to need a steady nerve and clear thoughts in the difficult days ahead, and I would never be so arrogant as to suggest which PR courses you might steer for the US presidential candidates. But on this issue I do feel qualified to weigh in.

Take my PR advice. Get rid of the lid, and you will be far better placed to talk your way elegantly through the next Larry King show — and be viewed in a much better light by TV viewers across your great country and around the world.

I write this letter with the best of intentions and a warm heart. I hope you are not offended.

– Yours,

Anonymous For Now

can’t someone tell David G, like his wife maybe, that his combover looks so stupid and makes him look like a stupid vain man. ????

and McCain too? what;’s wrong with theese men? eveyuthing,.

if nothing else, maybe MCCain combover will make Newsweek ro TIme do a feature on the psycholgical reasons men were combovers, so stupid and vain…..grow up John, Grow up David….look Rudy got wise, Olmert got wise they looked better too, you can too

You want to rule the USA, and the world to some degree, you put yourself out there for commentary.

Besides, nothing can be said about McCain, that is ruder than stuff he says himself. His comments about Chelsea Clinton years back when she was only 14 were horrible, and lets not forget his repeated racial slurs and bashing of an entire race all the way through the 1970’s to 2000. Don’t see why he should roll around saying nasty stuff, while everyone else is expected to be nice to him.

So lets hope he does the same

Dorothy from grammology
remember to call gram
http://www.grammology.com

It’s not an attack - it is me trying to help the poor guy. I don’t know what is going through his mind. I don’t know why he thinks it is ok to try and pretend like he has real hair by growing it long on one side of his head and then deliberately combing it over to meet the hair on the other side of the head. Does he actually think we all think this is real hair, that we can’t tell what he is doing? Seriously?

I didn’t just post this here, but I sent in a contact form on his website to beg him to please get rid of it..