Not The Onion: Survivor type show features U.S. Senators Flake and Heinrich on desert Island
Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona last month returned to a favorite vacation getaway -- the remote Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
But this time Flake, a Republican, was joined by his colleague Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M. And a television crew from the Discovery Channel to document the survivalist adventure.
Flake and Heinrich were filmed roughing it Robinson Crusoe-style for six days and six nights for an Oct. 29 Discovery event dramatically titled "Rival Survival."
The bipartisan duo, who had to live on limited resources, were "surrounded by shark-infested waters that mirror the seemingly treacherous terrain of the U.S. Congress," the Discovery Channel's news release breathlessly announces.
"Polar opposites and often at odds in the Senate, these two men must come together to take on the island of Eru, Marshall Islands, an utterly unforgiving deserted destination where the reefs alone are fraught with dangers that include venomous stonefish, lionfish and scorpion fish," the release adds.
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