Where does CNN’s Dana Bash get inspiration for metaphors?

Apparently from some temporarily trendy sitcom from the mid to late ’90s.

Check out Sunday’s “Late Edition”:

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EDWARDS: The American people deserve to know that their presidency is not for sale, the Lincoln Bedroom is not for rent, and lobbyist money can no longer influence policy in the House or the Senate. The problem with nostalgia is, what we tend to do, is you only remember what you like — right? — and you forget the parts that you didn’t like.

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BLITZER: All right. Now, that was widely seen as a slap at Hillary Clinton, the reference to the Lincoln Bedroom, for example, not for sale. He’s now insisting it wasn’t a slap at Hillary Clinton, but anybody listening to it on Thursday, you couldn’t help but draw that conclusion.

BASH: Oh, there’s no question. Do you remember the “Seinfeld” episode, “Bizarro World”?  That’s pretty much what this was.

It was pretty much like a Seinfeld episode?  Talk about bizarro.  Let’s recall Bash’s March 2007 reporting on Chuck Hagel:

An advisory went out with big fonts saying that the senator was going to talk about his future plans here and there was informed speculation that he would, in fact, dip his toe, at least, into the presidential waters.

In the end, a local Nebraska reporter, Wolf, came up to our photographer and said it was a “Seinfeld” press conference about nothing.

We’d be much more impressed if Dana could work in a reference to “Bob Patterson.”