From The Swamp:
by Mark Silva
Patrick Fitzgerald, the Chicago-based U.S. attorney, will make an appearance on Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me!, the Chicago-based Saturday comical hour on National Public Radio.
With national fame earned from his role as special counsel in the leak of a CIA agent's identity and his prosecution of former White House aide Lewis "Scooter'' Libby for obstruction of justice in that investigation, Fitzgerald will take a seat on the nationally broadcast radio program as someone pressed to talk about something he knows nothing about.
In the "Not My Job'' segment of the show, celebrities are quizzed out of field.
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer faced questioning about the habits of rock stars. Elizabeth Edwards, wife of the former senator from North Carolina, John Edwards, seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, was asked about celebrity rehab treatment. Ted Koppel, the longtime host of ABC's Nightline, was quizzed about the box-office bust, Sahara.
“Several times recently I thought about getting tickets to go watch it, but never got it done,”
Fitzgerald is quoted as saying about the show. “Now I know I have a seat.”
While Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! takes the show on the road sometimes, its home base is Chicago. And Fitzgerald, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, will be close to home when it’s taped this week in the city’s Millennium Park.The show is aired by 425 member stations -- the first media appearance for Fitzgerald since Libby's conviction and then commutation of his prison time by the president.
"We're going to subject Patrick Fitzgerald to the rigors of our quiz, and whether he wins or loses is entirely up to him,” says show host Peter Sagal. "Of course, if he does lose, we expect the president to intervene and change the result. It'd only be fair, right?"
Check the local listings in your area.
Unfortunately, I will not get to listen this weekend as I am schedule for conference this weekend and out of town. I will check next week to see if the site have a podcast to listen. I am sure some of the JL newsjunkies on the blog will fill in the potholes next week.
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Timing is everything. I wish my vacation and my stop over in Chicago was on the Sat. Fitz is doing the interview. I could have met both Randall and Fitz. The Chicago train-station isn't that far from where Fitz will be. Well it can always be a dream anyway. Maybe I'll get lucky and see Fitz at an airport during my travels.
But I did luck out with seeing and talking with my Randall and for that I feel great and blessed.
I think Peaches will never forget my experience as I put Randall/Jackie picture in her room with other vacation pictures.
That's great! When is Mr. Fitzgerald coming back to New York? I would love for him to go an interview in New York. Sorry Mr. Biloxi that you will miss the interview. I will try to listen to interview that weekend if I can. Maybe I will send you an email on some of the highlights of the interview.
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