Did You Know That Zell Miller's Guest Box At The Convention Was Canceled?

[DrFunkenstein]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sen. Zell Miller, whose scathing speech at the Republican convention outraged fellow Democrats, was so booked with television interviews that he could not sit in President Bush's guest box at the convention on Thursday as first planned.

The Bush re-election campaign initially intended for the Georgia senator and his wife, Shirley, to sit among the honored guests with first lady Laura Bush and other VIPs as the president accepted the Republican nomination to a new term in office.

The campaign later released a guest list that dropped Miller and his wife from the list. Bush campaign spokesman Scott Stanzel said Miller was not in the box because the Bush campaign had scheduled him to do too many television interviews.

Miller, in his Wednesday night remarks, accused Democrat John Kerry of voting against funding for many major defense programs and said U.S. forces under Kerry would be "armed with what? Spitballs?"

Miller later got annoyed at the line of questioning by a television interviewer, Chris Matthews of MSNBC's "Hardball," and said he wished he could challenge him to a duel.

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Will "spitballs" become shorthand for the lie that Kerry would shortchange the military (and Cheney's more drastic cuts)?

[Cocoa]

1. used and dumped by Bush

at least he still has his Democratic friends to fall back on...

[LTR]

2. Now he has no friends

Karma, ain't it a bitch?

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. I didn't see any more television interviews

They can't even be frank about the small things.

[DrFunkenstein]

4. He Was Interviewing DURING Bush's Speech?

That sounds like a lack of coordination to me.

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. No

He has certainly been abandoned by the campaign.

[Kid_A]

6. He's probably been approached by every interviewer on TV after his fracas

with Chris Matthews. Bill O'Reilly is a big fan of duels himself, so maybe he'll go on "The Factor"! Picture this headline: O'REILLY TO ZELL: "I'M GONNA SHOOT YOU BETWEEN THE HEAD!"