Cool people/famous people I've seen/spoken to at the DNC

[WilliamPitt]

This is the within-three-feet-or-spoke-to crew:

Steve Buschemi
Larry David
Tom Brokaw
Chris Heinz
Bono
Lou Dobbs
Tom Brokaw
Medea Benjamin
Ambassador Joseph Wilson
Congressman Conyers
Hoffa
Janeane Garofolo (shook her hand)
Spike Lee
Jesse Jackson
Donna Brazille
Tery McAulife
Wolf Blitzer
Stone Phillips
Candy Crowley
Dan Rather
John Glenn

Jealous?

:)

:P

[arwalden]

1. Send Me A Lock Of Your Hair...

or a tee-shirt you've worn. (Yes, I'm jealous.)

-- Allen

[SarahB]

2. Hoffa?

[LynneSin]

7. I think Will knows where Hoffa is buried at....

somewhere within 3 feet of where he was standing

:bounce:

[WilliamPitt]

9. Am I in Giants Stadium?

:)

[LynneSin]

12. You said you were anywhere about 3 feet from Hoffa

and there is no proof he's buried under Giant Stadium. Maybe he's buried under the Fleet Center

:tinfoilhat:

[WilliamPitt]

14. The Fleet center was built in 1996

If Hofa is here, he was awful smelly when they dumped him in the hole.

[LynneSin]

22. Damn, here I was going to call Matt Drudge with a Late Breaking Story:

Noted Author, Columnist, Deadhead and Tequila Drinker William Rivers Pitt Finds Jimmy Hoffa's body.

[WilliamPitt]

23. ...and sprayed his stanky dead ass with Febreeze

:)

[VelmaD]

24. You said "THE WORD" without screaming and curling up...

into the fetal position.

I'm so proud. *surreptitiously wipes away tear* :P

[LynneSin]

25. Will, just for you I'm bring a fresh bottle to NYC.....

....NOT!!!!!

Anyhow, that was Pagam's fault for giving me Weapons of Mass Destruction after I had all that tequila. I'm not to be blamed, I was a pawn in all of this!!!

[Dudley_DUright]

3. Just finished listening to your interview

with Ambassador Wilson. A truth-teller telling the truth to truthout. Nice job.

[VelmaD]

4. Never wash that hand again

:)

And yes, I am pea-green with envy. :P

[Cybergata]

5. You bet I am!

But I'm so glad that you had this opportunity. Enjoy it!.

:hippie:

[hlthe2b]

6. Couple of questions for you, Will

Are you encountering some people who either know you through Truthout or from your book with Ritter?

And, I don't know whether you can answer this, but is Michael Dukakis there? While I understand the sensitivity re: having him speak, it does seem really sad if he doesn't feel comfortable to go to the convention of his party in his own state... Just curious....

Finally, we'll have the disinfection chamber set up, if you get too close to the Faux cabal, especially O'Liely, Hannity, Hume....:mad:

[WilliamPitt]

8. Answer

Are you encountering some people who either know you through Truthout or from your book with Ritter?

Yes: Joe Wilson, Garofolo, Medea Benjamin and Chris Heinz. My blog entry on the Heinz thing:

--

A moment of personal and professional satisfaction.

Around 9pm, truthout editor and cameraman extraordinare Scott Galindez and I were scouring the 5th floor rotunda of the convention hall for people to interview. We saw Jesse Jackson, Spike Lee, Steve Buscemi and several other people we wanted to talk to. But each of them was traveling at high speed within their own personal mob, and we couldn't penetrate the perimeter.

Dispirited, we started looking for a down escalator, when suddenly Chris Heinz appeared before us. Heinz and I did some miles together in New Hampshire when I was up there to interview his step-dad, John Kerry, so he recognized me.

I asked him if he had a minute to talk, and his assistant said no way, they had to keep going.

"No," said Heinz to his guy. "We stop for truthout."

The ensuing interview was pure bubblegum, but about 20 other press guys who tried and failed to get Heinz on camera clustered around Galindez to see who it was that got the man they had been hunting.

Some people have it, fellas. Some people don't.

Thanks for stopping, Chris.

http://www.truthout.org/dnc04.shtml

--

And, I don't know whether you can answer this, but is Michael Dukakis there? While I understand the sensitivity re: having him speak, it does seem really sad if he doesn't feel comfortable to go to the convention of his party in his own state... Just curious....

I have no idea. Isn't he teaching law in Hawaii now?

Finally, we'll have the disinfection chamber set up, if you get too close to the Faux cabal, especially O'Liely, Hannity, Hume....

That's why God invented beer. Luckily, I haven't seen one Fox person. They stay up in their little hermetically sealed booth on the fifth floor rotunda. :)

[hlthe2b]

13. Super cool! You carry our pride with you, Will!

:toast:

Do you ever get a chance to mention DU?

[DemBones DemBones]

17. Dukakis was introduced and applauded at the convention tonight,

right after McGovern and Mondale (in chronological order of their candidacies.

Kitty was with Michael and they both looked good, I thought, though I was on the other side of the room at the time (snarling to myself about how a decent man was trashed, his wife's personal problems exposed, etc., all to get Poppy Bush in office.)

[hlthe2b]

20. Thanks DemBones DemBones! Good to hear...

Perhaps in a few more years there won't be that lingering awkwardness with respect to Dukakis... This year was definitely Carter's turn to regain the totality of respect he so richly deserves.

[Dudley_DUright]

19. Michael Dukakis is there

He was introduced from the MA delegation earlier in the evening (as was Fritz Mondale from the MN delegation), but no speaking role.

[WinterStorm]

10. What did you say to Blitzer and Crowley?

Just curious?

[WilliamPitt]

16. Didn't talk to them

but their prep room is next to the press bullpen, so I am always jostling past Wolf-s hairdo when I go off to work the crowd.

[WinterStorm]

21. Are they behind a glass wall?

:loveya:

[rucky]

11. Buschemi is off the cool people list

he tanked it on Matthews

[WilliamPitt]

18. Mr. Pink? Off the cool list? Surely you jest.

It's interesting. I saw him coming out of that interview. He looked annoyed.

[Fenris]

15. Did you meet Candy by the craft services table?

;)