Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/08/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information