[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'141093\' date=\'Dec 20 2006, 01:16 PM\']
You know, if I was Dave Price's manager, or publicist, or whatever, this is exactly how I'd be mounting my campaign to keep my guy as the front runner.[/quote]
I have no doubt that's how this engine got running.
Helen Kushnick pulled the same sort of garbage to pump Jay Leno in the press in the spring of 1991 and the next thing we knew, Johnny Carson was retiring, Jay was given The Tonight Show job and David Letterman was, eventually, off to CBS.
The book The Late Shift is fascinating reading. The HBO movie was, in my opinion, a waste of time.