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Monday, June 02, 2008 --- 87 days ago http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nymag/vulture/~3/303183848/politics_at_bea_christ
 From left, the political lunch, from far away; Hodgman, close up. Photo: Boris Kachka "I'm a VP, welcome," said the woman who served us lemon chicken at Book Expo's politically themed author luncheon, which was facing the sudden political reality of a walkout by the entire serving staff of the L.A. Convention Center, forcing fair organizers to wear aprons. "The news of the walkout caused quite a discussion in the green room," said novelist Christopher Buckley. "We had some prominent liberals there who were going to walk out in solidarity with the staff. I as the Republican in the group favored bringing in scabs." Two of the authors seemed to be on strike, too: Michael Moore, who never made it because of bad weather in Michigan, and John Krakauer, who couldn't be here to promote his coming book on Pat Tillman because he failed to finish it on time, forcing its removal from fall catalogs. Moore's scab was the equally caustic though considerably more presentable Arianna Huffington, while Krakauer's chair was left respectfully empty. The fact that NBC correspondent and War Journal writer Richard Engel had just flown in from Baghdad put the other writers' difficulties in perspective. It was Daily Kos' Markos Matos Zuniga, though, who made things a little more exciting with a few strange barbs. "I didn't have money to buy my way in," said the wildly popular lefty blogger. "I didn't have a rich, powerful famous family for me to trade off ... |
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