Charlie Rose Black Eye
Posted on 18 March 2008 by URGENT!Daily
What a rush! Charlie Rose Face Plants To Save His MacBook Air! Yeah, you read that headline right. Apple couldn’t pay for better press than this.
Viewers of the Charlie Rose show tonight were stunned to see the normally composed Rose looking like he’d just been in a bar fight. He has a very bad black eye and a bandage over part of his forehead. I contacted the show’s producers to hear what happened. Earlier today, they said, Rose tripped in a pothole while walking on 59th Street in Manhattan. He was carrying a newly purchased MacBook Air and made a quick (but ultimately flawed) decision while falling: sacrifice the face, protect the computer. “In doing so, he pretty much hit the pavement face first, unfortunately,” they said.
Luckily the MacBook Air survived the fall. “The Macbook Air is fine, he showed us the blood stains on it this morning.”
Rose, one of the hardest working journalists I’ve met, records multiple shows per day and cancellations are rare. Falling directly onto his face apparently doesn’t qualify as a good enough excuse to postpone a show.
By the way, Rose says he always has to have the newest gadgets as soon as possible. After we recorded an interview two weeks ago (see it here) he invited me to dinner along with Matt Rutherford, the show’s head tech guy.
He had three different cell phones out at various times - here’s a picture with a Blackberry, an iPhone and a…what is that? A Samsung?
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March 21st, 2008 at 12:41 am
Yeagm well I’m the night bartender in Murphy’s Bar and Grill on Gun Hill Road in the Bronx.
Chalie stoppped by with some of his friends and asked he bartender to turn off the basketball game to see his show.
Now a lot of money was bet on the game, and the regulars of Murphy’s screamed and tld Charlie, who had identified hinself, just what he cold do with his show.
Chalie replied by calling them uncuth, uncivilized, dumb shanry Irish (half of the accusation were true) when the fight started.
Charlie, being a good guy, tried to stop the fight. Unfortunately, he was caught between Ed Muldoon and John Quinn. Who struck Charlie is still in question but I can tell ou it was an accident.
Murphy’s regulars do not pundh old men trying to earn a living on a talk show. In fct, several customers have offered to find Charlie a real job.
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