I’m glad that 60 Minutes interview is over. Every time I do an interview like that I have a vision of Mike Wallace exposing some deep and dark secret of mine to tens of millions of viewers on national television. Clearly, the hardball days are gone.
Steve Kroft was positively slow pitch softball. Thankfully, he wasn’t looking for dirty laundry and I don’t have any more to air. 60 Minutes is a dinosaur viewed by dinosaurs. In an odd way that’s what my campaign is all about. Herding dinosaurs into the 21st century.
Bill and Hillary were on 60 Minutes in the early days of their first campaign and came off looking pretty good. It didn’t last. Things change. Except for 60 Minutes. They’re the Buick of television journals. Everyone who watches that show is old or getting there. Or old and working there.
While Steve Kroft was blathering on about experience and qualifications I was thinking to myself, “Good God, I’m barely half Mike Wallace’s age.” The man is 89. So is Andy Rooney. The average age of a 60 Minutes reporter must be over 70. Less if you count their new generation eye candy, Scott Pelley and Katie Couric.
If everyone in the U.S. lived as long as some 60 Minutes’ reporters, we’d bankrupt Social Security before the end of my first term.
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