Well, I did a really cheesy thing yesterday, something that I’ve turned my nose up when I’ve seen TV people do it my whole career: I asked a source to re-enact a moment for the camera.
Go ahead, throw your rotten tomatoes — I deserve it.
All done now?
Here’s what happened: During our interview yesterday, Michael Koska said several interesting things about the effect he things Sarahmania is likely to have on down-ballot races such as his. He said it while I was using my camera to get some still shots of him. By the time the camera had stopped storing the series of pics I had just shot, and let me switch to video, he had moved on.
So I asked him to say it again. Being a nice guy, he went along. At least, in the interest of honesty (not to mention the unities of cinema verite), I kept in the part when I’m coaching him to say it again.
Another bad thing about this — something that’s really cheesy — is that talking about partisan considerations is so not Michael Koska. Apart from mentioning that a Republican might be able to get more done in a GOP-dominated Legislature than a Democrat could, he made no other mentions of party. So it’s a little nonrepresentative to call so much attention to this one tidbit.
But I’ll say two things in my defense:
- I did NOT choose this as the video to go with my actual report to you on the interview, but instead provided footage that went much more to the heart of his message.
- This Sarah Palin stuff was just plain interesting, particularly coming from such an otherwise post-partisan kind of guy.
Anyway, make of it what you will.
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