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Subject: [Leica] about the howard dean thing
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Tue Aug 2 11:55:11 2005

You're not overreacting at all, Brad. I certainly wouldn't want to be
associated with a moron like that. If he doesn't like the five minute limit
- and I can understand why he wouldn't - he should simply cancel the
interview.


On 8/2/05 10:35 AM, "Stasys Petravicius" <stasys1@cox.net> wrote:

> 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
>> 
>> 
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Replies: Reply from brad at bradbrad.com (brad daly) ([Leica] about the howard dean thing)
In reply to: Message from stasys1 at cox.net (Stasys Petravicius) ([Leica] about the howard dean thing)