Separated at Birth

Today we match The Atlantic‘s James Fallows with TV evangelist Pat Robertson.

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This morning we’re pairing Examiner’s Philip Klein with a slightly younger version of Counselor to Treasury Sec. Tim Geithner, Gene Sperling, and actor Jim Nabors who played Gomer Pyle on The Andy Griffith Show. We have another contender from a reader…it’s Henry Czerny from “Clear and Present Danger.”

This morning we’re pairing WaPo‘s Mike DeBonis, who covers the District of Columbia, with Jason Furman, Principal Deputy Director of the National Economic Council.

Today’s doppelganger comes from an anonymous reader who went the “Star Wars” route with Sen. Tom Coburn‘s (R-Okla.) freshly sprouting facial hair. The twin is: Wicket Wystri Warrick, an Ewok scout, warrior, and later ruler of Bright Tree Village on the forest moon of Endor (if you can understand what any of that means, more power to you).

While watching the United States Women’s Soccer team destroy Canada in the Olympic qualifying championship match last night, I had to do a double take when we saw head coach Pia Sundhage strolling the sidelines. Notice the eerie similarity between Sundhage and Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.). Weirdly, MSNBC “Morning Joe” regular Donny Deutsch also looks like Sundhage.

 

This morning we find major uncanny similarities  in WaPo Ombudsman Patrick Pexton and former Rep. Jim Traficant (I-Ohio). Traficant used to say he got his hair cut by a weed wacker. Though we suspect Pexton likely addresses his locks in a far more civilized manner, the result may be one in the same: extremely stylish.

This afternoon we proudly present Middle School Rick Santorum and Napoleon Dynamite. The Atlantic first posted the “tragic” photograph on May 26, 2011 and it landed on Drudge today.

This afternoon we’re seeing the similarities of President Obama’s foreign policy advisor Denis McDonough and TV’s Herman Munster. Don’t take offense, Herman. He’s not a bad looking twin.

 

Today we’re matching College Newt Gingrich with The Office’s Dwight Schrute played by Rainn Wilson. We found College Gingrich on The Drudge Report. UPDATE: Indeed the WSJ deserves credit for the photograph in Elizabeth Williamson‘s story on Newt’s college days which is posted on Drudge.

We’ve had new doppelgänger discoveries this afternoon for Italian Costa Concordia Francesco Schettino. For starters, Josh Rogin, who writes Foreign Policy‘s The Cable blog. Another dead ringer: Stephen Furst, who played “Flounder” in “Animal House.”