Baghdad Bob Crashes Howell Raines Revival Meeting – NYT FREEP After Action Report

RaoulGram | 5/15/03 | Doctor Raoul

[JennysCool]

Brilliant! Hearty congratulations!

[SAJ]

Doc -- You, mate, are a true piece of work! G-d bless ya, and be well! (d*mn clever--couldn't have even thought of that on the best day of my life).

[potlatch]

Hilarious!! You sure know how to have fun!

[NormsRevenge]

Wed May 14, 6:26 PM ET

New York Times staff members display their identification cards as they arrive for a meeting with the paper's senior editors in New York Wednesday, May 14, 2003. The town hall-style meeting was called to discuss the paper's handling of former Times reporter Jayson Blair, who was found to have plagiarized or fabricated material in at least three dozen articles. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

[Rollee]

That is absolutely brilliant! Thanks for posting your story. Do you have any pictures?

[dts32041]

This calls fo Registered's unique talents.

[piasa]

Priceless!

[Doctor Raoul]

Think the most commonly used phrase around the NYT water cooler tomorrow will be "that f#$%ing Baghdad Bob guy".

[FranklinsTower]

I nominate this for the Freep of the year!

I wonder how many nyt employees are going to quit after this meeting.

[Doctor Raoul]

Sorry, was so busy that I didn't take any.

I did however purchase the CENTCOM deck of playing cards from a street vendor around the corner. All of $5.

There was a guy on the corner of 44th and Broadway with a large neon sign on a stick so it stood out over crowd. It read, "Greatest Pick Up Lines $1".

I said, the World's Greatest Pick Up Line was, "Hey baby, I'm Bill Clinton. How would you like to have lunch with the leader of the free world?"

He laughed and agreed that it was the World's Greatest Pick Up Line.

[Doctor Raoul]

I wonder how many nyt employees are going to quit after this meeting.

None. For sure, Howell Raines said he's not quiting.

[hmmmmm]

Astonishingly priceless, Thank you!

[Mo1]

ROFLMBO .. EXCELLENT!!!

[FranklinsTower]

I am thinking that if Raines will not quit, others will. So much for my wishful thinking.

[Mo1]

LOL .. Well, I can see his hand and the sign

[dwills]

i hope your extreme brilliance does not go unrewarded

[Malesherbes]

Absolutely great! The thing they hate most is being laughed at.

[Doctor Raoul]

Absolutely great! The thing they hate most is being laughed at.

You're absloutely right that ridicule works.

Angelwood's campaign of sending "puff balls" to Blitzer had an effect on his balance during that period of time.

Of course, he backslid a little in the meantime.

[rwfromkansas]

Awesome way of writing this report.

Red-heads are something, aren't they...:)

I hope somebody has pics of that group of babes you talked about...lol.