Ann Curry just did a segment on Sudan – because George Clooney was at the U.N. So she’s talking to George Clooney. Hot, glamorous George Clooney, talking about something very serious. Ann has her I’m-being-very-serious-but-wow-am-I-talking-to-a-hot-man look on. After the close-up on the hot, glamorous movie star, we see he’s sitting next to Elie Wiesel. If you don’t know who Wiesel is, you won’t learn it until later in the segment when they fit him in. It’s hot, glamorous George Clooney’s mission, man. Don’t let that dude who knows genocide get in the way.

(This isn’t, for the record, an I-hate-George-Clooney-because-he’s-liberal post. Clooney’s been to Darfur and was going around with Elie Wiesel and hanging with John Bolton and all the rest. It’s a media-culture point.)