Yelling at Firefighters in a Crowded Room

The International Association of Fire Fighters held their presidential forum today, one of those cattle calls/panderthons that MSNBC usually builds a whole day of programming around. The newsiest thing to come out of it happened last week, when it got out that the IAFF had disinvited/invited Giuliani, who didn't want to come anyway. Today, the press benches were filled but I think the most interesting (perhaps only) piece of news wasn't on stage but about the press corps itself: Of the other reporters I talked to while I was there, all from major outlets, I was one of the only ones not actually online, actively blogging it while it was happening. And one of them was doing live television from it.

It's going to be a very long campaign and there will be exponentially more words produced than news generated, and each one of them will be blogged. Are there RSS companies to invest in? Eyeglasses makers?

FYI, you can read their reports here, here, here and here apparently, one of them is filing to a blog that hasn't launched publicly yet. Such dedication!

I really don't have any more to add. Most insightful quote from the peanut gallery that probably won't appear on that person's blog? "If Biden had stopped talking after five minutes, he might have gotten their vote." (He was last to speak, and, well, he spoke.)

UPDATE: "Crust" reminds us of this awesome little piece of news -- not that well-covered, and more interesting than the firefighters' gathering itself: The "other" firefighters' organization that did endorse Rudy? Headed by a Rudy staffer. Who may be its only member.