{"id":11558,"date":"2009-10-09T13:43:12","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T21:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=11558"},"modified":"2009-10-09T13:43:12","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T21:43:12","slug":"luke-fords-grotto-kids-will-love-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=11558","title":{"rendered":"Luke Ford’s Grotto! Kids Will Love It!"},"content":{"rendered":"

A friend who’s converting to Judaism emails me: "I was talking to my mom on the phone just now, trying to explain to her what a sukkah<\/a> is. I told her it was like a hut, a temporary dwelling place, like what the Israelites lived in. Then she said, "Oh, is that what Mr. Ford lives in? He lives in a sukkah?" She’s been reading your blog, she said. I could’ve died. Mr. Ford lives in a sukkah year-round."<\/p>\n

Mickey Kaus blogs<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Creepy on so many levels.<\/a> … 1)<\/strong> He just died; 2)<\/strong> He wasn’t that<\/em> important. This isn’t Winston Churchill. (The vacuity of David Gregory just makes him seem like Winston Churchill); 3)<\/strong> They’ve recreated the way his office looked on the day he died.<\/em> Morbid! 4)<\/strong> It’s like they’re trying to build some kind of cult of the personality, with the family willingly invading its own privacy to help out (‘Look, there’s Luke’s childhood drawing’); 5)<\/strong> Making a big deal of Russert’s I-love-the-Bills schtick assumes it’s shocking that a high-level Washington news guy would be an ordinary middle class American. Bureau chiefs, they’re just like us! 6)<\/strong> Does the exhibit include an animatronic NBC butler<\/strong>?** 7) <\/strong>Will it include Lloyd Grove’s famous, damning profile<\/a> of Russert-on-the-make? 8)<\/strong> Self-important, dying industry attempts to fetishize its prominent members before it is completely forgotten. 9)<\/strong> NBC News in particular seems to be living in the past. …<\/p>\n

Coming soon<\/em>: Luke Ford’s Grotto! Kids will love it<\/a>. …<\/p>\n

P.S.:<\/strong> I’m sure Gawker<\/em> goes to town on this, but I haven’t read Gawker<\/em> yet. Update:<\/strong> They do<\/a>. Jack Shafer beat me to mockery too<\/a>. By hours. Lucky for me speed isn’t important in this business. [The contrarian thing would be to <\/em>defend the exhibit–ed<\/em> Defending Russert can’t be contrarian. That violates a law of physics.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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