Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/08/01

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Subject: [Leica] about the howard dean thing
From: brad at bradbrad.com (brad daly)
Date: Mon Aug 1 20:55:27 2005
 
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

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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
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