Scheduled for "Hardball" with Chris Matthews on MSNBC Tuesday, 11 Jan
Barnett - a driver picks me up for the ride to the local NBC station near Providence. I'll tape the remote with Hardball near the end of their taping hour, which runs roughly from 4-5pm. It will show between 7-8 pm tomorrow night EST. The subject will be based on a upcoming Newsweek story about tension inside the Pentagon over how things are going in Iraq. The producers don't have the Esquire story in hand yet, but even if they did, I think that's a different story.
I hope to be down to minimal meds by tomorrow afternoon. If I look especially dull in the eyes, that'll be why.
I offered four possible identifiers: author of PNM, former OSD, contributing editor of Esquire, and partner in New Rule Sets Project LLC. I won't know what they show until I see it broadcast later on.
I'm a bit nervous with Matthews, because he has the tendency to interrupt so much, and you can really see how that wreaks havoc with remotes because of the time delay (they barely start answering and he's right back at them; hard to explain how jumbling that can be, unless you speak on the phone with overseas callers a lot). Someone like him, it's much better to be in the studio live, but it's too much effort to go to DC just for that, so this is better. Reality is, if you want to do TV, you have to get good at remotes.
This time, though, I won't ask for any feedback visuals--too distracting. |
