Thursday, March 28, 2024
Miles from the Mainstream
D. R. ZUKERMAN, proprietor
LPR Thanks …

APRIL 9, 2006 --

… The NYPD for renewing its press pass that makes it possible for LPR to get photos for its clicksters of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, baseball players arriving at Yankee Stadium, NASCAR photo ops among other special events in New York City.

And LPR thanks its clicksters, because without you it would be difficult to justify this press ID.


Al Roker, December 2005.


… Today's Al Roker, who graciously posed for the LPR camera on the upper east side, last December -- months before the announcement that Katie Couric was leaving the NBC program to go to CBS, and to be replaced by Meredith Vieira, who once worked at CBS.

Seems kind of a trade to LPR.

Next, trades of tv characters? LPR would love to see "24"s Kiefer Sutherland traded to "The Unit" and saying, as he sees Dennis Haysbert, "President Palmer, I thought you were dead."

(Speaking of "24", is President Logan really the mastermind of this season's plot? And should we be curious that this suggestion was aired days before we were told that President Bush had some
involvement in leaking information in response to criticism from former Ambassador Joseph Wilson on the
WMD issue -- a controversy that, if not more complicated than the "24" story line, helps officials ignore the economic squeeze on the voters.)
 

Allan H. Selig in 2003.



… Major League Baseball Commissioner Allan H. Selig, photographed by LPR as he arrived at Yankee Stadium for a game between the Yankees and Florida Marlins during the 2003 World Series (won by the Marlins in 6 games). Commissioner Selig is currently dealing with a major league baseball controversy that refuses to go away: the alleged use of steroids by ballplayers -- in recent years, and ???