FROM A PARALLEL UNIVERSE:

Dick Cheney, in a strange move, began the debate by demanding fifteen minutes of silence for the late Rodney Dangerfield. This delayed things, especially when John Edwards argued it was a bad move. Cheney called Edwards disrespectful and went ahead with his fifteen minutes of silence alone. ...

Laught at it all at Something Awful. (Thanks to Crooked Timber via Appalachia Alumni Association.)