[Leica] about the howard dean thing

[chandos at cox.net (Chandos Michael Brown)]

Brad,

I don't think that you're overreacting at all.  What you describe is a
circus of amateurs (at least on the reporter's side), and you'll hardly
have opportunity to distance yourself from their antics. On the other
hand, if access to Dean and the photos that you might secure are of
significant value to you, then you can go in there quipping (or thinking
about) about the Crusty the Clown dip-shit who's conducting the
interview and bang away frames to you heart's content.

Your call.

Cheers!

Chandos

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daly
Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 11:55 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: [Leica] about the howard dean thing

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
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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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