The sophisticated Mr. Cooke found himself fodder for 'Saturday Night Live.' Jackie Gleason turned him into Aristotle Cookie.
It gave him an even bigger pile of fodder to puff himself up as the emperor of talk radio, claim to be the real kingmaker in the GOP, and in a perverse way paint himself as a credible and thoughtful political critic.
Would he himself become fodder for "sharing" over drinks on some girls' night out, or during one of Arden's cooking classes?
In fact, the controversy over the Chamber of Commerce financing may say more about the Washington spin cycle — where an Internet blog posting can be quickly picked up by like-minded groups and become political fodder for the president himself — than it does about the vagaries of campaign finance.
For the second week in a row, Russert used a video tape of himself as fodder for one of his now, mundane "gotcha moments".
But by conducting in Germany and Austria throughout Hitler's reign, he lent the Third Reich his considerable prestige and allowed himself to become fodder for its finely tuned propaganda machine.
No wonder War of the Worlds' young hero Robbie Justin Chatwinn) signals his transition from boyhood to manliness by running away to join the army, gladly offering himself as ray-gun fodder on the battlefield of battered American pride.
"There is a change, and the example I would give is Gary Speed where, in the past a Premiership star hanging himself would have been tabloid fodder, sadly.
Since the accusations were first made public, Mr. Watson, a Labour politician who had himself been the subject of tabloid fodder, has emerged as a kind of Inspector Javert of the Murdochs.
Mawer is funny on the vagaries of life as a midlist author: his publishing history reads like a tour of the industry's battlefields, with himself in the role of cannon fodder.
