Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/08/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hey- we only get 3 minutes at our city council meetings- he's giving you a lot at 5! Stasys On Aug 1, 2005, at 8:55 PM, brad daly wrote: > so there's a problem. the reporter i'm accompanying, who will be > writing for one of our local alt-weeklies, the birmingham weekly, is > pissed because dean's people are only giving him 5 minutes. in what > seems to me to be retaliation, he has decided to take along an > assistant with a bell and do an interview in a format copied from some > TV show: 20 questions in 5 minutes, ringing the bell after 10 seconds > of dean's answers. earlier i questioned the wisdom of doing this, and > the reporter responded with something along the lines of "fuck 'em if > they can't take a joke." i'm actually thinking of begging off because > i'm really not interested in being part of some amateurish, sophomoric > fiasco. (alabama's already all but irrelevant to the democratic > party, and i don't think acting like a bunch of hipster assholes to > the party chairman is going to help.) plus, i like and admire howard > dean and really don't want to be part of insulting him. > > any advice? perhaps i'm overreacting. > > --brad > > -- > brad daly > brad@bradbrad.com > http://www.bradbrad.com > > What Would Bill Hicks Say? > > > "Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial > reasons." > --Bertrand Russell > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >