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CBS News She may jennifer been "fiery" and "electric" on stage at the Democratic National Convention last week, but as a check this out on "The Dating Game" informer Michigan governor-turned-talk show host Jennifer Granholm was described as "cute and curvaceous.
Newly unearthed video shows a year-old Granholm - now host of the liberal show, "The War Room with Jennifer Granholm" on Current TV - sporting the decade's signature Farrah Fawcett-inspired mane and a pair of suspenders.
Dating introducing the then-aspiring actress as a lover of "theater, the ice, and the great outdoors," the host, Jim Lange, asks, "Is it crazy time?
Granholm has recently risen to the tops of news feeds for her animated - perhaps overly game, some political consultants have said - and passionate address to the DNC in Charlotte, N. Her wild arm gestures and often thunderous volume immediately drew overpeople to YouTube to watch replays of the speech, which has been compared to the scream that foiled Howard Dean's White house dreams in As for her new - or at least, newfound- Internet sensation, Granholm is taking it in stride.
When a former staffer sent her the link, the Detroit Free Press reportsshe responded, "I'm still granholm so hard my stomach hurts. Lindsey Boerma.
Watch 'curvaceous' Jennifer Granholm in 1978 appearance on 'The Dating Game'
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