Tammy Haddad
The load-in (as our tech folks call it) to create the AFL-CIO presidential forum television coverage began at 12:01 am CT on Monday after the Chicago Bears cleared Soldier Field. The MSNBC election department had all team leaders on site to turn around the first outdoor candidate face-off for 2008. Led by NBC News Specials chief Phil Alongi and MSNBC's senior director, Marc Greenstein, looking beyond the lightning (yellow and pink) and put their plan into action to create an intimate feel with 15,000 AFL-CIO members in the end zone.
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A visit to 30 Rock is enough to send any hardworking Hardballer into happiness, but walking the red carpet into Rick Stengel’s Time 100 party at the Time Warner Center with NBC News Snr. V.P. Phil Griffin, Arianna Huffington and Ana Marie Cox and, excuse me, Cate (Blanchett) so nice to meet you, that’s a grand slam!
With Chris Matthews, Mayor Mike (Hey, I asked Kevin Sheekey if you could announce on Hardball’s 10th Anniversary show), John Mayer, Jeffrey Sachs, Matt Lauer, Dan Abrams, Page 6’s Richard Johnson, Richard Branson, and Brian Grazer among the notables….a killer time was had by all.
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| From left to right: Hardball's Tammy Haddad, Time's Anna Marie Cox, Elizabeth Edwards and ABC's Elizabeth Vargas. |
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