You never know who you'll meet in the "green room."
Recently,while waiting to be grilled by Chris Matthews on MSNBC I ran into the Reverend Jesse Jackson, who had just come from Harvard University where he delivered a speech marking the Rainbow Coalition's 20th anniversary. The Reverend was about to join Pat Buchanan and Jerry Brown on a "Hardball" segment that should have been billed "The Contenders." (Jackson ran for President in '84 and '88; Brown in '76 and '92 and Buchanan in '92, '96 and 2000.)
I'm posting a transcript of their conversation--with Matthews's inevitable Saturday Night Live-styleinterventions--because it was one of the better TV moments I've seen in these last months. And the transpartisan bonding, particularly between Brown and Buchanan, is worth noting.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
You never know who you’ll meet in the “green room.”
Recently,while waiting to be grilled by Chris Matthews on MSNBC I ran into the Reverend Jesse Jackson, who had just come from Harvard University where he delivered a speech marking the Rainbow Coalition’s 20th anniversary. The Reverend was about to join Pat Buchanan and Jerry Brown on a “Hardball” segment that should have been billed “The Contenders.” (Jackson ran for President in ’84 and ’88; Brown in ’76 and ’92 and Buchanan in ’92, ’96 and 2000.)
I’m posting a transcript of their conversation–with Matthews’s inevitable Saturday Night Live-styleinterventions–because it was one of the better TV moments I’ve seen in these last months. And the transpartisan bonding, particularly between Brown and Buchanan, is worth noting.
Katrina vanden HeuvelTwitterKatrina vanden Heuvel is editor and publisher of The Nation, America’s leading source of progressive politics and culture. An expert on international affairs and US politics, she is an award-winning columnist and frequent contributor to The Guardian. Vanden Heuvel is the author of several books, including The Change I Believe In: Fighting for Progress in The Age of Obama, and co-author (with Stephen F. Cohen) of Voices of Glasnost: Interviews with Gorbachev’s Reformers.