As some of you may already know, ECR and NMATV have teamed up to produce a documentary about Obama's eligibility issues and some of the people pursuing it. Tentatively titled "Barack Hussein Obama vs. the Law," the film will include interviews with Orly Taitz, Mario Apuzzo, two attorneys with very different legal approaches to the matter, as well as well-known radio personality Steve Malzberg. I figured I'd tell you a little bit about our day yesterday as we shot the film all over the tri-state area.
0700- Dr. Orly was supposed to be in by now, but her flight has been delayed. Great opportunity to get my '99 Toyota washed... for the first time since the fall. I'm wondering what she and Apuzzo will be like in person. They're nice on the phone, but am I running with the tin-foil hat crowd? We'll find out.
0730- Oh crap. We're supposed to be at the WVOX studios in Westchester at 8AM where I have studio time booked for us... damn - better call and back it up a bit, and contact the people who want to meet Orly there. Hope they can make it later.
0900- Having a bagel and waiting... stuck listening to Imus on WABC - Why did they get rid of Curtis and Kuby in the mornings?
0940- Orly calls from the plane. They've landed.
1000- Orly hops in the Evil-Mobile and we head up to Westchester.
1030- Sitting in traffic. Talking to Orly. Her phone is ringing non-stop and she continually refers to notes and rattles off facts with the efficiency of a laser printer on calls as varied as the US Senate and the US Supreme Court, bloggers, and her research team. We have a conversation while all of this is happening.
1045- We arrive at Starbucks by the WVOX studios and hook up with Bob from NMATV, who'll be doing the shoot. He just drove in from Boston and he's been up since 3AM. We grab a cup of coffee and head to the studios.
1120- We start the interview after I run back to Starbucks and retrieve Orly's paperwork, which had been left on our table. Luckily, the Starbucks crowd in Westchester is so self-involved, I don't think anyone noticed the stack of legal papers sitting on the table while I was gone.
1200- We should be done by now, but the interview is going so well, and so much information being relayed, that we have to extend it a bit. It'll make it tight to get to our 1330 appointment with Steve Malzberg at WOR, but it has to be done.
1230- After thanking WVOX management for the use of their facilities, we head into Manhattan to the WOR studios... fighting traffic all the way. On the way Orly confirms with the Supreme Court that her cases will be re-added to the docket by tomorrow (today) at 1PM.
1330- We park at South Street Seaport and head over to WOR on Broadway, walking past Timmah Geithner's old place of employment, the NY Fed, and the Stock Exchange.. a sad area for me since Wall Street got taken over by Washington bureaucrats. Oh well. You can still get a gyro for $4. I guess that's something.
1345- We meet Steve Malzberg, who takes us into the studio and, despite the fact that he's obviously incredibly busy, makes some time to say hello and get us set up for the interview. We'll have to work around his schedule, as he does promos and interviews and generally multitasks. The offices at WOR are amazing, and EC takes the opportunity to engage in a mini-stealth operation to drop some CD's of Evil Conservative Radio on the Program Director's desk... who knows when I'll be that close to the guy who makes programming decisions for NY's oldest and second-largest talk radio station again?
1440- Mission accomplished on the CD drop, we're finally ready for the interview. We get Steve on film and then footage afterward of Orly's interview with Steve on his show. He's been incredibly gracious to us and it's amazing that he's letting us interview him, even though he doesn't know us well. He's trusting that we won't do a hatchet job on him, and of course we won't let him down. He's a great friggin' guy.
1630- We grab some coffee at McDonald's. Unfortunately we won't have time to hunt down Mayor Bloomberg, as the offices are closed for the day. Orly obtains, against all odds, a personal appointment with Senator John Kyl of Arizona for tomorrow (today) at noon, while sipping coffee in the Wall Street McDonald's.
1700- We put Orly in the car service to get her back to the airport. The airport is east of the city and we need to head west, to see Mario Apuzzo. I am incredibly impressed with Dr. Orly's tenacity and drive and just her general sticktuitiveness. She refuses to take no for an answer and she is fearless in asking questions of bureaucrats. Let's see what Mario Apuzzo has to say.
1800- Geez, the traffic is horrible. We've gone about 30 blocks... still not even in Jersey.
1845- In the middle of New Jersey, in a semi-bucolic town just off the Jersey Turnpike and closer to Philly than NYC, we pull up at a house with a shingle out front. Mario Apuzzo, attorney at law.
1920- We start interviewing Mario. It turns out that Orly is great at facts - she appears to never forget anything, while Mario is a world-class storyteller. He weaves a compelling and thoughtful analysis into his presentation of the foundation of his case. No tin-foil hats in evidence at all.
2030- We're wrapping up, and I'm blown away. We've heard all the facts from Orly, and had them woven into a compelling and sensible narrative by Mario, with the added perspective of one of the few individuals in the mainstream media (Steve Malzberg) with the courage to talk about the cases. I'm starting to think we really have something here.
2100- Bob packs up and heads out to Boston, while I head through the city and back to Long Island. I have a BlogTalkRadio show to do at 11:30 PM every night... so I rush.
2330- On my BlogTalkRadio show I talk a little about the day, and I get a call from Neil Turner out in California, who tells me about more breaking news. A police department in Texas wants to investigate Obama's eligibility. One by one it seems the bricks in Obama's wall of disinformation are starting to crumble. As I wrap up the show I'm starting to think that the individuals I have met and worked with today have made a case that is compelling. Not the case that Obama should be removed or that he isn't qualified. But rather the case that the questions surrounding his eligibility deserve to be answered.
Now back to work to do my small part... and try to get this movie out within two weeks. Stay tuned.
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