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October 31, 2005
Pardon Me, Mr. Prime Minister, But About Your Drink of Choice...
I just started reading Face the Nation, an excellent book by Bob Schieffer (host of Face the Nation and the CBS Evening News) about the first fifty years of the CBS Sunday morning program. If you are even remotely interested in the television industry, this is a book worth buying. Although there are numerous captivating tales, the following one is without a doubt my favorite thus far.
“[I]t never bothered [Barbara] Walters to ask the questions the rest of us [men] shied away from. During a trip to India with President Carter, she asked Indian Prime Minister Morarji Desai about reports that he drank his own urine.
He readily admitted that he did, bragged on its medicinal qualities and she had a story the rest of us had been too timid to pursue.”
Obviously my opinion of Barbara Walters has risen tenfold since reading this. I really hope I get to interview people for a living one day. The “Do you drink your own urine” question seems like it would be appropriate a supermajority of the time. In fact, I think I'm going to start asking it on interviews the next time I am in the job hunt mode.
Interviewer: "Do you have any questions for me?"
Thinking Fool: "Why, yes I do. Could you tell me about benefits?"
Interviewer: "We have blah blah blah blah blah..."
Thinking Fool: "What about urine?"
Interviewer: "What about it?"
Thinking Fool: "Do you drink your own?"
Interviewer: "Excuse me?"
Thinking Fool: "Some Indian Prime Minister used to drink his own urine and he lived into his 90s. I read it in a book if you don't believe me."
Interviewer: "Thanks for coming in."
Thinking Fool: "My pleasure. When can I expect to hear from you?"
Comments
On one of those dumb TV shows dubbed something like "50 Dumbest Celebrity Bonehead Mistakes", or something like that, they had the aforementioned Ms. Walters. Apparently, she asked her interviewee, "If you were a tree, what kind of tree wood you be?"
*Correction- "wood" should be "would"
Posted by: NYU Jew at November 1, 2005 04:15 PM
