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The Ted Cruz look: 90 percent televangelist, 10 percent child molester.

NFL trivia: The Lindbergh baby was found in there.

Listen, I know that Bradley Cooper is with Irina Shayk, a very tall and beautiful Russian model ...

Oh, that’s glorious. 

The news about Dolores hurts my heart. 

It’s okay, honey. Nobody thought it was you.

I also think that when an interviewer starts making “deals” with his subject about stuff that’s “off limits,” it stops being journalism and starts to be promotion. I mean, that’s fine—but label it for what it is. A journalist doesn’t agree to “off limits” stuff in a public interview. You certainly can be strategic

Agreed—all good points.

Yeah, I got it. I didn’t watch the video--just commented after reading the story and missed that the interviewer was a woman. I’m sorry. I really, really am.

Having some experience with that: “negotiating boundaries” is pretty sketchy, and I think subjects regularly believe their demands about “off limits” are going to be honored, even if an interviewer doesn’t agree. 

See my apology above. 

My apology. I misread the interviewer’s gender. 

Take heart, Drew: The 1972 Steelers lost a week after the Immaculate Reception.

In his defense: I mean, it’s what gave her notoriety in the first place.

Update: Star reporter says he didn’t get the quote from Bloomberg. So...there you go. Your “off the record” was honored--by the organization that you had the agreement with. That’s as far as it goes, or should go.

And then there’s that.

I feel compelled to point out, to non-journalists, that you can’t just say, “off the record...” and it magically makes it off the record. OTR is an agreement.

Yeah, I’m 51 and rode the Zipper at a local carnival recently with my 51-year-old wife. I clamped my eyes shut and never opened them for a moment till it was over. It wasn’t fun. Used to be.

- My uncle had to chase off a group of Yinzers harassing a tailgate of Browns fans at Heinz Field after a Steelers win. These were middle-aged men going after a group of college kids from Cleveland, and doing so as if beating the Browns is a big win. The Browns fans did nothing hostile and were otherwise just hanging

As a lifelong Steeler fan, hat’s off, Drew. Nailed it.