Emmys embrace election year

September 22, 2008 Politics crept then crashed into Sunday's Emmy telecast, with trophies going to such socially conscious fare as "John Adams" and "Recount" and plenty of zingers and pleas to vote Nov. 4. "The election between Adams and Jefferson was filled with innuendo, lies, a bitter partisan press and disinformation," the producer said. Accepting a "celebratory Emmy" to remedy being left out when "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" won a 1968 Emmy for writing, Tommy Smothers wasted no time getting off a barb at the current occupant of the wartime White House, just as he did for Democrat Lyndon Johnson at the height of the Vietnam War.

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