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Begala recalls screaming at Stephanopoulos not to allow network star Ted Koppel onto the plane to do a special on the campaign's last 48 hours, since it wouldn't air until after the election. "But George's argument was that when you see Clinton unhandled and unproduced, people like him. And he was thinking down the road. That's my definition of vision: anybody who can think beyond Election...
Next came "Truth or Dare." I can see how a thinking individual might be able to seem stupid in, say, an hour-long interview with Ted Koppel. Maybe you weren't prepared. But then how do you explain the movie? It was the same thing all over again: you pretending to masturbate on stage, and then being shocked and outraged when the Catholic Church dumped on you for this. We were subjected to an endless stream of banalities again: free speech, art, blah, blah, blah...
Besides, the Bartley's would lose a lot of time if they made star-gazing a common practice. Other famous dinners include Stephen King, Jackie Kennedy, Ted Koppel, Jimmy Breslin and Norman Mailer...
...case in point: To his enormous credit, Nightline Anchor Ted Koppel has acknowledged publicly that, prior to the broadcast's first visit to South Africa in 1985, African-American employees had lobbied ABC News executives for years to do just that. It may seem strange that it would take five years to convince a major news network that South Africa was a good story in the early 1980's, but that's exactly what happened...
...Congress, Perot promises to bypass it and go directly to the American people in the "electronic town hall" -- Nightline with President Perot playing Ted Koppel. It is here, says Perot, that the American people will, in direct communion with the leader, solve those knotty problems that have eluded a clumsy, corrupt Congress...