[Warning: gratuitous, self-important, navel-gazing lies ahead. After all I am a blogger, whaddya expect?]
The early reviews are in on last night's media appearance.
Dan from Minnetonka:
Well done on the news tonight. You looked and sounded good!
The Jim Jones like leader of The Kool Aid Report chimes in:
Nice haircut. Loved the parting shot Scherno took at you "...though he admits he never saw the movie." Dude, next time, lie. It's not like they have any gatekeepers or anything.
A point echoed by JB:
Nice selective labeling there "Republican party activist"? Are lefties given similar appellations? And I like the shot about not seeing the flick. You shoulda just said you saw it.
Yeah, Sherno really thought that "he admits he never saw the movie" was a zinger, didn't he? Actually I did spend some time explaining to him why I didn't need to see the movie to be able to form an opinion of it. After all, I haven't watched "Norbit" either, but I'm pretty sure it SUCKS ARSE! Unfortunately, like most of my best material, that bit ended up on the cutting room floor.
Dave from Ohligarchy adds:
I just saw your segment on the KSTP news site and you sounded good, as always. Something seemed a little odd, so I went back and viewed it again with the sound off. The first time your face appears on screen, you look very concerned. The video then switches over to what appears to be a flying sperm that fertilizes an egg labeled "2005". It then switches back to you, looking as concerned as you did before. It looks like it's either the start of a really funky Viagra commercial, or you are denying charges that you are the father of Anna Nicole's baby (who would have been conceived in 2005). Who the heck edits this stuff?
Good question Dave. I noticed that they used one side angle shot that shows my neck muscles straining as if I'm about to explode in a rage over the issue. In reality, I was getting a little frustrated because the video trailer for "The Great Global Warming Swindle" was taking a while to load on my PC.
The whole experience was a little surreal, especially considering how quickly it all came off. Just as I was about to leave work yesterday, I received an e-mail from Sherno asking me to call him ASAP. I did so on the way home. After arriving at my abode, I barely had time to choke down a pastrami (which I find to be the most sensual of all the salted cured meats) sandwich before the crew arrived.
My wife and child hid in the basement the entire time (get to the cellar, the mainstream media's a comin'!). Her main concern was not whether her husband would be able to articulate his case, rather that the house would look messy and that I would appear a hick with my missing toof. At least the house looked well-kept.
I'm a novice at the whole television interview game and one thing I found unsettling was that I never knew when they were shooting and when they weren't. Tim Sherno and I were basically talking the entire time he was there. Some of it was captured on tape, some wasn't.
It was also interesting to see how he tried to "sex up" the story by hyping my outrage. He asked me how I felt when I first learned that SLP was sponsoring a showing of the film. I said I was surprised. He asked if I was upset about it. Yeah, I suppose I was upset, I replied. That translated to, "Doughty is upset..." in the story.
But my favorite line had to be "Chad Doughty is hot about..." because it both reaches for the easy pun and dramatically overstates the case. Which I suppose is perfectly appropriate for a local news story on global warming.
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