I love my parents to bits, but, like most Americans, I do often wonder how things would have been different for me had my father been Lester "Ironpants" Holt. You know Lester: subbing on Today, then subbing the same night for Brian Williams with a Dateline still to come. How does he do it? His industriousness is a sterling example for mankind.This morning, though, he was subbing for the injured Matt Lauer, who had fallen from his bike avoiding a deer and has even had surgery. Lester held up a copy of one of the tabloids with its clipart of a deer and said "Look, it's got that 'Matt in the headlights' look."
That, right there, would be a career for anyone else. But no, Holt will soldier on, even up against that obnoxious mouthy Saturday Today girl (Jenna?), pausing here and here to wryly drop crumbs about how his college-age sons sleep until 2 in the afternoon, etc.
But what will you do?
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