I have to offer apologies for my tardiness with the material in this post but time seems to get away from me lately. When I first got an alert that John Roberts would be doing an interview with John Avalon at The Strand in NYC on March 15th I knew it would be interesting. I was encouraged to know that it would be posted on C-Span2 Book TV and planned on grabbing it to post here at ATC. Unfortunately C-Span2 thwarted my efforts with a video that isn't able to be copied, lifted or embedded. So I will post the link to C-Span2 site where the video is posted and strongly encourage you to watch the 54 minute talk that is packed with good information and also highlights John Roberts strong skills as an inteviewer.
And while we are on the subject of John Roberts, he pulled a steller April Fool's (I told you I'm behind, didn't I?) joke on American Morning April 1st. He told Kiran Chetry, Christine Roamans and others on the AM set that he had been asked to be the ambassador to Canada. Here's a bit of the CNN transcript:
CHETRY: You know, I feel so much better than I did about 10 minutes ago, because our Christine Romans is here "Minding Your Business", and she fell for the same April Fools' joke which is John telling us that he's been called up to be the ambassador to Canada.
ROMANS: I really believed it.
CHETRY: And you and I both fell for it. No one else did.
ROMANS: John! Really? John!
CHETRY: Well, wait. My reaction was, oh my gosh, you know, it's such a big career move. Christine goes, am I going to have a connection then to these good parties?
ROMANS: That's true. I did say that. All right, well --
ROBERTS: And in your condition, too, (INAUDIBLE).
ROMANS: So, as you can see, I'm really -- I'm looking -- taking the long view. I'm looking around -- over the corner.
Look, we're talking about the -- the free credit reports as well.
ROBERTS: But wait, the (ph) ambassadorship to Canada is available.
ROMANS: You know -- and please tell us, is that -- that was a beautiful April Fools' joke. It was very well done, well executed. You get the -- you get the award for the best April Fools' of the year.
ROBERTS: It's the first one I've pulled in a decade, at least.
Later in the morning there was a great exchange about Robert's April Fool's prank between John, Kiran and Kyra when AM tossed to Newsroom.
Thanks to BA and Cyn for help with the material in this post. ~Phebe
Good for John but he does need to do something about his graying. On him gray makes him well, old.
ReplyDeleteAccording to TVN, Olberman's repeats in the demo, hammered AC. This is not a good sign on a Monday nite, but when half the show is dedicated to Cameron Douglas what can you expect, not stellar ratings. Sorry