MetaChat REGISTER   ||   LOGIN   ||   IMAGES ARE OFF   ||   RECENT COMMENTS




artphoto by splunge
artphoto by TheophileEscargot
artphoto by Kronos_to_Earth
artphoto by ethylene

Home

About

Search

Archives

Mecha Wiki

Metachat Eye

Emcee

IRC Channels

IRC FAQ


 RSS


Comment Feed:

RSS

22 October 2006

I'm going home! The documentary is finished, and I've never been this tired in my life. But it'll air Tuesday night on CNN, and features an appearance by a MetaChat bunny.[More:]

All this week at 8 PM Eastern, CNN is running a series of one-hour shows under the name "Broken Government." Mine airs Tuesday night, is hosted by Candy Crowley, and is called "Two Left Feet."
The whole hour is about the Democrats, and how they plan to stop snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. It gives a history of how the GOP first started painting the Dems as "soft on communism terror,"and follows a couple of the "new Democrats" who have managed to win in red states. The stupid title (not our idea) makes it sound like it's negative about the Democrats, but it's not- the whole hour has Democrats themselves talking about the party's history and future.

ALSO, our own mygothlaundry has a soundbite in the show! And since a lot of the show centers around the House race in the 11th district (North Carolina), you can spot some other Asheville bunnies if you look closely- moonbird, recovering iowan, and syntax can be spotted in a couple of shots.

I think the show repeats at 11 PM eastern, and no doubt will run some more between then and election day. I'm not sure it'll be aired outside the U.S. There were only five of us putting this thing together: me (I edited), the reporter, and three producers, and it took us three insane, 75-hour weeks here in Washington to do it.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go lie on the hotel room floor in a fetal position and wait for morning. Good night!
posted by BoringPostcards 22 October | 23:29
Sleep tight, BP. Your own bed is going to feel sooooooo good when you get home...
posted by iconomy 22 October | 23:31
Congrats, BP! I wish I could watch it. :(
posted by dobbs 22 October | 23:50
awesome - i wanna watch it too!
posted by dabitch 23 October | 05:34
Awesome, BP! Have a good trip home and I'm setting the tivo.
posted by gaspode 23 October | 06:52
Congratulations, BP!

I just checked the listings at tivo.com and it says that "Paula Zahn Now" is on Tuesday 8pm. Should I ignore what tivo thinks is on and just record that time slot?
posted by mike9322 23 October | 07:27
Thanks everybody!


Yes mike, 8 pm is usually "Paula Zahn Now," so ignore that if your listings still say that.

Also, dobbs, the show will air in Canada since all of North America gets the domestic version of CNN.

posted by BoringPostcards 23 October | 08:01
Have a good trip back!
*looking forward to seeing it*

(Next time, dude.)
posted by danostuporstar 23 October | 08:07
I've got my TiVo set to record it. I just need to free up some hard drive space on my laptop to encode the sucker... :)

Can't wait to see it!
posted by syntax 23 October | 08:17
I'm studying video editing now, so I hope to see it on CNN International and learn something. Can't find it on the schedule, may have to wait for kind MeCha uploader or seeder.
posted by PlanetKyoto 23 October | 08:36
Yay and thank you BP for my 5 minutes of fame! ;-) My whole family is getting together with recoveringiowan to eat dinner at my mom's and watch it. It is just vaguely possible that my brother will even figure out how to work my mom's ancient, gigantic VCR so that we can put it on one of them newfangled videotapes. We are all totally excited and looking forward to it!
posted by mygothlaundry 23 October | 09:27
So who is going to upload it to YouTube? :)
posted by terrapin 23 October | 11:15
late to the party, as always! Woo-hoo BP! I will be watching. Good for you and mgl. I hope I spot the other bunnies too.

Have a safe trip back home.
posted by carmina 23 October | 11:17
The west coast listings for CNN are always screwed up. I'll be home that night doing laundry, so I'll just check in every hour between 5 and 8 to see if it shows up.
posted by matildaben 23 October | 11:19
My listing says Paula Zahn, but I'll check to see if it's on. . .w00t!
posted by rainbaby 24 October | 18:03
You Big Bully! || Don't ever change.

HOME  ||   REGISTER  ||   LOGIN