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The New York Times does a great job analyzing Artie Lange’s hijack of Joe Buck’s premier on HBO as he took over Costas Live:
Michael Irvin, in the audience after being part of a segment with Bengals receiver Chad Johnson following the Favre interview, could only laugh at the spectacle.
“It’s refreshing to see white-on-white crime,” he said.
Lange’s shtick, which will be dissected with Stern on Tuesday morning, will be compared — for the attention it has created — to last year’s confrontation over blogging on “Costas Now” between the writer Buzz Bissinger and Will Leitch, then of Deadspin.
Bissinger kept erupting, creating a fascinating tableau of righteous anger.
But the Lange incident — which benefited from the artistic freedom that HBO provides — was not about any particular issue; it was about Lange’s decision that the stage was his to seize. Buck said: “It’s an unfortunate thing that happened. But it’s live. If it were taped, nobody would have seen it.”
Look, sometimes a rape victim suffers from Stockholm Syndrome. We should all pray for Joe Buck, but I have a feeling he’ll be begging for Lange’s return. It’s a vicious cycle these talk show hosts go through.
April 19, 2009 at 2:03 am | editMost excellent Cube!! And don’t give up the Aftershow–EVER!!
April 18, 2009 at 10:56 pm | editlol
live blog from here?
ok, Im a newbie still to all this blog and radiotalkcomputer stuff…
April 19, 2009 at 1:51 am | edit