Fox Business News interview on Esquire China piece & "term sheet" proposal
Tuesday, December 21, 2010 at 1:34PM COMMENTARY: Felt I did alright considering all the pain meds over the past few days (I went cold turkey this ayem). My right ear certainly stands out! If you look closely, you'll see black-and-blue bruising. The ENT basically had to enter my ear canal from behind the ear, so it's like he cut it off and then sewed it back on--hence the absurd swelling and why my ear sticks out so. But trust me, I look 1000% better than the day before, and then the day before that, and so on. When I got home Friday, I looked like some CG monster!
Feed was nice into my left ear, and because I couldn't hear anything out of my right, I was sort of nicely insulated (i.e., no listening to myself live in the room and feeling disconnected from my interviewer in NYC). Jerry sat off to my right and watched the whole show quietly, but he found it weird that I would suddenly speak and then go silent and then speak and then go silent and . . ..
Felt it was a decent performance, considering the surgery recovery and all. Nice limo ride into Indy for it, which Jerry enjoyed. Felt I mentioned Esquire and my Beijing partners sufficiently, and the book and Wikistrat got nice plugs. Obviously could have gone on far longer and there was so much more ground I wanted to cover, but there you have it in 5-6 minutes.
Final indignity: vid stops right when I blink, like somebody turned the robot off!
Reader Comments (6)
You did a great job even though your ear had been hacked off and you are from Boscobel. Doc is proud of you, I know he is.
Good interview, glad to see the news channels have picked up on this.
Tom:
Great job, wish you were on FOX more often, you make more sense than anyone else I hear anywhere. When things seem to race out of control in the media, I read your blog and feel comfort, thank you for that.
Been doing our family tree, see the Barnetts are right along side the Colliers. My Colliers are from Virginia, Kentucky (heavy Baptists), Indiana and parts north and west. My husbands Clark family traces back to William Bradford. Very interesting.
Merry Christmas to you and your wonderful family and a very Happy New Year!
Diane Collier Clark-Iowa
Great stuff in short amount of time. You have mentioned in the past an aversion to doing the short stints but hopefully the message will give you some bargaining power for longer segments going forward. Perhaps Fox and Friends or Morning Joe would be more open to this.
Looked good Dr. Barnett. Sounded even better, especially given the time constraint.
Have you thought about doing another TED talk with your newfound China-US partnership focus?
Well done.