I’d been contacted by several people about doing DNC convention coverage, but now that the convention’s here, I haven’t really heard much more about it (possibly because of email problems). Michelle Malkin is on it, as are the folks at PJM, along with several local bloggers — including the strangely named People’s Press Collective. Zombie is also there for LGF and Pajamas.
I offered my services to PJM — they filed for credentials on my behalf but never got back to me — and now it seems they have Steve Green of Vodkapundit downtown covering things.
Jason Mattera is working for Hot Air, dressed up in hippie protest garb and chatting up passersby. So my doing so, in a reprise of The Citizen Journalist Report, would prove superfluous at this point, I think.
In short, my services this time around aren’t really needed. Which is cool. Because I tivoed a “Law and Order: CI” marathon this weekend, anyway.
So looks like me and D’Onofrio will be spending some quality time together, delving into the minds of sociopaths and — at least on my end — eating lots of pita chips.
viva la revolucion!
Comment by Dan Collins on 8/26 @ 10:38 am #
In a word, sucks.
Viva la revulsion!
Comment by SarahW on 8/26 @ 10:39 am #
That D’Onofrio guy is getting kind of puffy.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 8/26 @ 10:42 am #
Delving into the minds of sociopaths? So you are going to cover the convention?
Man, I’m so confused.
Comment by happyfeet on 8/26 @ 10:45 am #
I don’t like L&O cause it’s too formulaic and there aren’t any spaceships ever.
Comment by kelly on 8/26 @ 10:48 am #
No big deal, Jeff. Doesn’t mean you can’t “cover” the convention anyway. It would be vastly moe entertaining.
Comment by McGehee on 8/26 @ 10:55 am #
Having one’s skin inhabited by a giant space cockroach will do that.
Comment by psycho... on 8/26 @ 11:07 am #
There’s an essay analogizing TV’s L&O-era idolization of the machinery of the police and courts (vs., say, Dirty Harry’s antipolitical cynicism (which, one might note, is perversely characterized as “fascist”)) to the modern press’s compliant reverence toward (most) politicians and their hollow-ceremonial conventions (vs., say, Mencken’s bug-on-tweezers disgust) (which reverence, one may also note, is fascist) in this.
The sentences should be less messy than that, though.
Oh! And you could hook it on how Michael Moriarty’s irreverence toward a certain couple of politicians got him blacklisted. They don’t even syndicate his episodes anymore, because he’d get residuals if they did.
CRISITUNITY!
Comment by happyfeet on 8/26 @ 11:09 am #
I don’t think he’s feeling it and I don’t blame him. Baracky said already he’s doing a wonky speech cause he’s feeling defensive about being a magniloquent ponce. So he rented a stadium to do a policy talk. That’s so fail.
Comment by happyfeet on 8/26 @ 11:20 am #
Do you make your own pita chips? I’m not a pita chip person. I guess that’s mostly a hummus thing?
Comment by Patrick on 8/26 @ 11:22 am #
Since when did not actually being there stop you from covering it?
Comment by Diana on 8/26 @ 11:30 am #
That’s it, Patrick. I’m just amusing myself … browsing the archives of the 2004 conventions. Good times.
Comment by maggie katzen on 8/26 @ 11:30 am #
is anyone else disturbed by the mics the FNC people are using? Brit Hume looked like a mutant elf and Bill O’Reilly looked like he had some tiny penis growing out of his cheek. *shiver* I waited for RTO to get bored and switched over to C-Span… for the dancing.
Comment by kelly on 8/26 @ 11:44 am #
Count me in on the mic thing, maggie. Creepy little flesh nodes. Gah!
Comment by Salt Lick on 8/26 @ 11:46 am #
In short, my services this time around aren’t really needed.
Oh sure. Like if I’ve got some John Grisham and Anne Rice around the house I don’t need Faulkner.
Comment by cranky-d on 8/26 @ 12:12 pm #
How is your offspring handling school, if I may ask?
Comment by TaiChiWawa on 8/26 @ 12:19 pm #
I bet Hunter S. Thompson’s ghost and Billy Jack are there in Denver.
Comment by McGehee on 8/26 @ 12:58 pm #
Not to mention Shannon Elizabeth’s nipples.
Comment by urthshu on 8/26 @ 1:02 pm #
And a ghostly fingertip looking for its living host….
Should probly be named Manuel or Digby
Comment by Dave S. on 8/26 @ 1:58 pm #
Maybe there’s a bit of room left for you in the Code Pink RV?
Comment by Barrett Brown on 8/26 @ 2:01 pm #
Ahem. I know of a certain outlet that would love to have you cover the convention. They let me get away with murder last night, incidentally.
Comment by Carin on 8/26 @ 2:02 pm #
Jeff, it’s not convention season w/o at least a coupla posts from you. I was spoiled by your ‘04 stuff.
Comment by Jeff G. on 8/26 @ 2:13 pm #
If they could set me up with a camerman and an editor, Barrett, I’d be all over it.
Comment by bigbooner on 8/26 @ 3:10 pm #
Ward Churchill is there. I was kinda hoping somebody could interview him. Cause he’s so scholarly.
Comment by dicentra on 8/26 @ 3:13 pm #
D’Onofrio.
Dude has the worst case of BDS of anyone. Had to drag in Chris Noth to do alternate weeks because Vincent got him a bad case of the 2004 Bush re-election vapors.
Comment by Lost My Cookies on 8/26 @ 3:27 pm #
Makes a good cockroach. Gotta give him that.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 8/26 @ 4:26 pm #
#7 psycho:
Law & Order is an updated Dragnet. They just added the trial to the police investigation.
Comment by The Monster on 8/26 @ 5:16 pm #
Look at the bright side: You avoided the spectacle of shouts of “Kill Jeff Goldstein!”, “Don’t let him get away!”, “You support FEMA camps!”, and “Excelsior!”* from leftist thugs, like what happened to Michelle. Or worse, She Who Must Not Be Named (aka Crazy with a Side Order of Batshit Insane) might have shown up inquiring as to Satchel’s well-being.
*Well, no one really said “Excelsior!”.
Comment by Tman on 8/26 @ 5:33 pm #
It’s too bad that PJM didn’t tap you for this, as I can’t think of a better event to have a full blown episode of The Citizen Journalist Report, but hey- you win some, you lose some.
Just don’t miss Minneapolis. I BESEECH YOU!!!
Comment by Mikey NTH on 8/26 @ 6:08 pm #
No, the guy who yelled Excelsior! didn’t come back from that pass alive. Don’t want to imitate that one; nor the Captain and his daughter on the schooner Hesperus. Too cold.
And that ‘Boy on the Burning Deck’ thing – way too warm.
Comment by phreshone on 8/26 @ 6:33 pm #
Jeff
Seeing some of the photos and interviews, I’m sort of glad you haven’t tested your patience by going downtown to “talk” to these idiots.
However, I think you should offer to team up with Joe Scarborough for a cage match versus Olby and Matthews. Bring your shovel…
Comment by Jeff G. on 8/26 @ 7:07 pm #
I had a couple great ideas for schticks. MM wrote me today, but there doesn’t seem to be a meetup place, and I don’t know anything about anyone I’d be working with.
I like Jason, but I’m a bit sad he’s doing the undercover bit. He looks better in a suit.
Comment by B Moe on 8/26 @ 8:00 pm #
Jesus, is anybody watching Mark Warner? That shit is surreal. How do you sleep at night after delivering something like that?
Comment by McGehee on 8/26 @ 8:32 pm #
Carbon monoxide?
Comment by B Moe on 8/26 @ 8:38 pm #
Now Hillary’s opening film bit is highlighting the debunked, bullshit astronaut story.
Unbelievable.
Comment by geoffb on 8/26 @ 9:03 pm #
“highlighting the debunked, bullshit astronaut story.”
This is the Left, the future is the known, the past changes as needed in the service of the wonderful Utopian future we will all get. It’s a sure thing, yes indeedy do.
Comment by thor on 8/26 @ 10:08 pm #
What the hell, Jeff, loan cynn your laptop and get her out so she can witness and report on this piece of All-American history.
Barack “Kid Hang Ten” Obama defies odds, defies gravity, and grabs Dem’s jeweled crown on his way to America’s W-House!
Comment by one MRE too many on 8/26 @ 10:31 pm #
Thinking the DNC/Secret Service would let Jeff within a mile of Obama,,,,is a Howl!!! A little reading at this web site and observing how Jeff’s emotional state is in line with Right Wing Ninjas more than any other demographic and knowing of his persistence in the violent arts….hmmm, maybe it’s not a good idea to give this dude a press pass. Esp. after finding those 3 boys with guns wandering around Denver hoping to get a shot at Obama I’d think it’s not a good idea to let ideologues with such a temper to visit with the opposition’s convention.
“Progressives” (to paraphrase the “Man”) are “Nazis”.
Yowl!
Steven King did a story about some guy seeing similar visions about a future would-be President didn’t he?
eh, thor? what happened here on Aug 22? That blogs still on my reader but now “disappeared” here?
Comment by B Moe on 8/26 @ 10:52 pm #
Barack “Kid Hang Ten†Obama defies odds, defies gravity, and grabs Dem’s jeweled crown on his way to America’s W-House!
He needs to get his buddy Ayers to blow up the Clintons, then. Hillary is already putting her ‘12 campaign together, dude, and it will be a lot easier to beat McCain she figures.
Comment by thor on 8/26 @ 10:53 pm #
I have no idea what happened here on the 22nd. I’m just the referee between reality and the r-wingers.
Besides, the fact is if the Dem word-police read this blog a shaggy red carpet might unfurl for Jeff. He lets me howl and bark here, and that speaks for itself.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 8/27 @ 5:34 am #
thor, any relationship between you and reality is merely coincidental.
Comment by Dread Cthulhu on 8/27 @ 6:32 am #
thor: “Besides, the fact is if the Dem word-police read this blog a shaggy red carpet might unfurl for Jeff. He lets me howl and bark here, and that speaks for itself.”
All it might mean is that Jeff had a dog growing up and has a tolerance for howling and barking.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 8/27 @ 7:58 am #
He lets me howl and bark here, and that speaks for itself.
You better make sure you know why he does that before you hurt your shoulder patting yourself on the back.
Comment by Pablo on 8/27 @ 8:24 am #
This comes to mind.
Comment by McGehee on 8/27 @ 9:21 am #
Every circus needs a clown.
Comment by Jeff G. on 8/27 @ 10:36 am #
Looks like I’ll be heading down there today. Incognito. Shhh.
Too bad I have this fucked up finger. Otherwise I’d ask Alex Jones to arm wrestle.
Comment by Dan Collins on 8/27 @ 10:54 am #
You’d still kick his ass in a thumb war.
Comment by McGehee on 8/27 @ 11:30 am #
Keep the finger under wraps, or they’ll recognize you.
Comment by Pablo on 8/27 @ 12:00 pm #
Sweet. But whatever you do, don’t get into a hot dog eating contest with Jones.
Comment by Jeff G. on 8/27 @ 12:04 pm #
He’s lucky I wasn’t around, I can tell you that much. He made threatening moves toward Malkin. I would have put him to sleep, I think. Finger willing.
Comment by Pablo on 8/27 @ 12:38 pm #
Yes, while his minions were calling for her life. I love peace demonstrations.
Comment by Mersky on 8/27 @ 12:46 pm #
Yes, those two guys qualify less for minion status than any thread on Protein Wisdom! Real scary dudes, those two guys were.
On a different note, please do attack that talk show guy. With all the nice cameras and all, we would get to start a legal defense fund for the criminal and civil charges!
I doubt that pudgy dude would put up much of a fight. This would be the most entertaining thing to happen on the internets since Dan Rather went running for cover.
Comment by clarice on 8/27 @ 12:58 pm #
Since you’re not covering the convention, get off your duff and start working on the book with me. I’m old. I don’t know how much longer I’ll be even moderately sentient. We could be rich! I see movie rights maybe even tv syndication.
Comment by Pablo on 8/27 @ 12:59 pm #
I’d suggest that you watch the video (again? For comprehension?). There were far more than two guys screaming “Kill Michelle Malkin!”
Suppose you were five foot nothing and somewhere around a hundred pounds and were in the midst of a mob calling for you to die. Would you find that scary? Would you think it was meant to be scary? The nice cameras were already there and the basis for criminal and civil complaints already exists.
Is it more you want, Mersky?
Comment by Carin on 8/27 @ 1:03 pm #
YEA! That’s what this convention needs. A little Jeff.
Comment by Swen Swenson on 8/27 @ 5:12 pm #
Jeez. O’Reilly with two tiny penises? The mind reels.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 8/27 @ 5:16 pm #
Jeez. O’Reilly with two tiny penises? The mind reels.
He’d still have nothing on George Washington.
Comment by Jeff G. on 8/28 @ 9:53 am #
Didn’t pan out. Too bad. I looked AWESOME in the costume, which included a Billy Jack hat.
Comment by SarahW on 8/28 @ 10:00 am #
Damn. I wanted to see that hat on.
Comment by SarahW on 8/28 @ 10:04 am #
Off to move furniture at Humble Hall . I question the timing.
A new sofa is being delivered and it’s raining cats and more cats, and there is no place to put that sofa cause the floor isn’t ready yet. All the furniture now cowers in dense clusters in the other spaces. I have to make a hole in it. I guess there’s always the sun porch.
Comment by SarahW on 8/28 @ 10:04 am #
At least take a picture of that get up.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 8/28 @ 10:26 am #
I’d be shocked if Malkin weighed over ninety.
Comment by Dread Cthulhu on 8/28 @ 10:30 am #
Obama has already brought forth the “Chicago Way” when it comes to politicing, sending forth his bleating sheeple to silence WGN and Stanley Kurtz from discussing Obama’s ties with Ayers.
Change you can believe in, eh?
Comment by Alice H on 8/29 @ 12:32 am #
I’m hoping you’ll reveal later that you gumpasted yourself and went down there anyway, so I’ll feel obligated to search my photos to see if you snuck into one of them.