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Swimming in Quicksand;
A Daily Journal of Survival
By Carol Joynt
carol@nathansgeorgetown.com
THURSDAY, MAY 15 ... JOHN MCCAIN should be ashamed of himself for not cutting himself out of PRESIDENT BUSH's appeasement comments at the Knesset. But it's not that I care. After all, it's tossing an easy one to the democrats, especially BARACK OBAMA. And be clear about this: it was aimed at Obama, not HILLARY CLINTON. The interesting thing to me is that at the same time Bush is damning any communication with Iran/Hamas/Hezbollah, his Defense Secretary, ROBERT GATES, is saying there needs to be some kind of communication, and TOM FRIEDMAN addressed this in his column yesterday.
I would have probed the subject with DOUG FEITH today at The Q&A Cafe, if not for the the unattended cell phone that kept ringing throughout the interview and distracting me from everything I had in my head about Bush/Iran/Hamas/Israel. No more cell phones at The Q&A Cafe. They must be turned off.
A compendium of classic TV meltdowns I could have had - but didn't - right here.
On New York Social Diary today I have two stories: the Refugees International dinner, featuring MIA FARROW, RONAN FARROW, MATT DILLON and SAM WATERSTON, and a little primer on the location for a lot of the wheeling and dealing of superdelegates: Democratic National Headquarters and the adjacent National Democratic Club. You can read it here. The pics in both stories are mine, too.
EARLIER...I almost pulled a BILL O'REILLY today. You know? Ripping off my microphone and pitching a tantrum on the set. But then, I think I may be a bit more mature than B.O. Still, throughout Feith, as mentioned above, someone's cell phone rang constantly. Constantly. It would do ten rings, be quiet for a minute or so, and then ring again for ten or more times. Doug heard it, too. It put us both off our games. Very difficult to concentrate on one's thoughts, and his book on the Iraq war is not exactly an easy subject.
This is where being grass roots TV can be a little too grass roots. As both producer and interviewer, once we're rolling tape it's imposible for me to get up from my chair to hunt around the room for the culprit with the errant phone. I'm out there on my own with the guest and the audience and it's not a good feeling...under the circumstances. In main stream TV, a staffer would have been dispatched to find the phone, grab it and pitch it out of the room. (Out into traffic would have been my preference).
Oh well. I have no recollection of what we dicussed. Only the phone. We'll have it up on youtube by this time tomorrow and you'll get to see and hear what I'm talking about.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 14 ... PAT BUCHANAN took a nose dive off an emotional cliff tonight on "Hardball" with CHRIS MATTHEWS and ANDREA MITCHELL as the on-set witnesses. Pat's been a guest twice on The Q&A Cafe, and a good guest, and usually his political punditry is relatively calm and reasoned and interesting. But this democratic primary campaign is just doing him in.
Between a rage against BARACK OBAMA and a Limbaugh-esque passion for HILLARY CLINTON he has seemed near to a nervous breakdown several times and certainly tonight. His rant this evening was during react to the JOHN EDWARDS endorsement of Obama. Buchanan swung into a tirade against the media who he claims berated West Virginia voters with slurs about income, education and racism. He didn't name names, but there was an inference that these media included Matthews, to which Chris responded with polling data. Andrea looked like she wished she could crawl under a rock. It was amusing TV, but has Buchanan gone round the bend? He appears to have set aside rational analysis to instead pursue passion and agenda.
Could this primary season be making people lose it?
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