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March 17, 2008

Charlie Rose Face Plants To Save His MacBook Air

Michael Arrington

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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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  1. Sandra G

    March 17th, 2008 at 9:56 pm

    Awesome, simply awesome…though you have to admit, his face isn’t exactly his meal ticket anyway. We love ya Chuckers!

  2. Duncan Riley

    March 17th, 2008 at 9:57 pm

    Pavement 1 Charlie 0.

  3. Evan

    March 17th, 2008 at 9:58 pm

    The battle wounds give him a bit of a serial killer look in the first photo. Very “The Shining.”

  4. Robert Lancer

    March 17th, 2008 at 9:58 pm

    According to the CrunchGear team the Macbook Air is useless, I guess Charlie’s face speaks differently.

  5. Michael Arrington

    March 17th, 2008 at 9:58 pm

    Rose just earned serious tech cred in my opinion.

  6. John McCrea

    March 17th, 2008 at 10:01 pm

    OMG. I think I just became a Charlie Rose fan.

    :)

  7. StockJockey

    March 17th, 2008 at 10:05 pm

    If he owns Apple stock, that would really be adding insult to injury.

    SJ

  8. MrUgly

    March 17th, 2008 at 10:06 pm

    Mr. Rose just one-upped every so called “hardcore Mac geek”. Jobs is probably phoning him for an upcoming ad spot.

  9. James D Kirk

    March 17th, 2008 at 10:07 pm

    Hmmm. Either they don’t pay him enough or he failed to purchase replacement insurance! J/K, of course. Can’t say I’d have bit pavement for any piece of technology (then again, I don’t have a Mac Air, either…)

  10. lawrence

    March 17th, 2008 at 10:08 pm

    The hardest working man in interviewing today.

    who the hell falls, lol - and gets a black eye…a stuntman needs to teach him how to break falls

  11. Michael D

    March 17th, 2008 at 10:10 pm

    Who said the MacBook Air is easy on the eyes?

  12. jgonzz

    March 17th, 2008 at 10:11 pm

    A NYC pothole is a dangerous thing…

  13. SearcH◆ EngineS WEB

    March 17th, 2008 at 10:12 pm

    Come now Rose,
    You would think someone with your sophistication and income would have already purchased in a padded laptop shoulder bag - designed to protect it against such accidents.

    Of course you can still just use THE OTHER ARM to cushion a fall if you are holding the laptop in a briefcase.

    But of course, this gets him invaluable media publicity to come on the air without theatrical makeup and with a band-aid ;-)

    How much would all this publicity he will eventually get for his show have cost him?!

  14. philip tadros

    March 17th, 2008 at 10:16 pm

    what a bad ass :) love this post!

  15. Steven

    March 17th, 2008 at 10:17 pm

    Interesting. I watched his show tonight and was wondering what happened to him. IMO he’s one of the most respectable journalists on the air today.

  16. Michael Arrington

    March 17th, 2008 at 10:20 pm

    Steven - so he didn’t make any comment at all on the show as to why he had a black eye?

  17. Eric

    March 17th, 2008 at 10:21 pm

    Yeah… hopefully this isn’t the journalist version of “falling down the stairs.”

  18. Fred Oliveira

    March 17th, 2008 at 10:22 pm

    Wounds heal in ways that the love for a bruised Macbook Air never could. I applaud Charlie Rose, for he has done what I would have. Bravo!

  19. Beau Vrolyk

    March 17th, 2008 at 10:27 pm

    Well, I suppose this confirms what other MacBook Air owners know (self included) that despite what various geekfixated self proclaimed “experts” and “pundits” have declared, the MacBook Air is really loved by its owners.

    But, who ever expected a Geek to understand why normal people buy consumer products. Ever ask one to pick out a pair of shoes, a TV, a toaster, a piece of art? I rather doubt it.

    The more interesting and useful a product is to the majority of consumers, the less interesting it is to the Geek. (self included)

    B

  20. JosefVirek

    March 17th, 2008 at 10:40 pm

    that is absolutely amazing. lol

  21. CO

    March 17th, 2008 at 11:16 pm

    Sorry. I don’t believe it. It was a hit.

  22. Travis

    March 17th, 2008 at 11:18 pm

    Mike, I believe that third phone is a Motorola Krzr.

    Anyone else mistake his right hand for a mutant second and third hand?

  23. Michael Arrington

    March 17th, 2008 at 11:21 pm

    Travis - whatever that phone is, it’s a damn shame to see it in someone’s hand.

  24. Andrew

    March 17th, 2008 at 11:32 pm

    its their version of “she walked into the door officer”

  25. Dan

    March 17th, 2008 at 11:37 pm

    Charlie Rose is amazing. When I watch other interviewers (which is pretty much only often enough to remind me of how bad they are) on channels like CNN, MSNBC, etc, they just seem like some sort of circus act. Charlie Rose has class.

    I’m really sorry to see his black eye! And nobody better dare make fun of this guy!

  26. Michael

    March 17th, 2008 at 11:38 pm

    very cool !

  27. jim

    March 17th, 2008 at 11:44 pm

    hmmm, very suspicious. a poster on Yahoo Answers says that there was a YouTube video of him persuing someone in a heated Q&A (probably for 60 Minutes) and they swing and he falls to the pavement.

    though they say the video has been removed now.

    not sure his Air story isn’t …hmmm…full of air? ;)

  28. Debbie Davies

    March 17th, 2008 at 11:47 pm

    Good reporting. I’m sure Rose would agree that journalists should keep their preferences to themselves. Did you ask him if you could publish the photo you took at dinner?

  29. Tao

    March 17th, 2008 at 11:49 pm

    Sorry spoil the spirits but Charlie is also a member of Bilderberg group and would also face plant for any Rockefeller. Rose is just doing buisness, don’t expect journalism from him at all times for he is just a slave.

  30. Julian Baldwin

    March 17th, 2008 at 11:53 pm

    His head was in the game, what a bad ass dude.

  31. Mo Kakwan

    March 17th, 2008 at 11:56 pm

    The pictures made this story. I’m guessing he didn’t have the warranty plan other wise he could’ve saved taking the ninja head butt to the pavement to save the macbook.

  32. Paul

    March 17th, 2008 at 11:57 pm

    I just don’t believe the pothole story. I think he met a right-cross.

  33. Michael Arrington

    March 18th, 2008 at 12:14 am

    funny photoshop job at engadget:

    http://www.engadget.com/2008/0.....cbook-air/

  34. Brian

    March 18th, 2008 at 12:17 am

    Faceplants are good for the soul.

  35. Michael Arrington

    March 18th, 2008 at 12:24 am

    Debbie - yes, he was fine with me posting that picture.

  36. Podesta

    March 18th, 2008 at 12:33 am

    The people counseling Rose on how to fall obviously have not had the experience. Using another body part to try to save his face would likely have resulted in a broken shoulder, arm or hand. In my worst fall, it was my hand that took the brunt. Months in a cast and brace, more of physical therapy, and it still has problems. (My MacBook Pro, in a shoulder bag, emerged unscathed.)

    I haven’t fallen while carrying my MacBook Air, but I think that it would probably come through.

  37. John Doe

    March 18th, 2008 at 12:40 am

    Any of you folks want to buy a bridge. I’ll make you a good deal on the Golden Gate. This is one unbelievable story. Next we’ll hear that Spitzer was actually taking part in an undercover sting operation, it was all a mistake.

  38. Greg Jordon

    March 18th, 2008 at 1:01 am

    A Gadget’s Perspective

    Orbit AI being a gadget himself of gigantic proportion applauded Mr. Rose’s gallant decision. Orbit having a brain the size of a small planet whirred and wobbled his iridescent plates a little pompously saying that Mr. Rose’s handsome features could repair themselves, but as sure as eggs are eggs “The Macbook Air” would have bought it big time on the sidewalk.
    The IM (Intelligent Machine) Harmony Motors from XL5 purred warmly in agreement adding sagely that anyone taking a tumble… their very first concern laying face down in the dirt was to check with some urgency that the mobile was still in one piece.
    Yes, the Xl5 onboard ‘XtraReal ™ Cine Monitors’ have now replaced their looped reruns of ‘Battlestar Galactica’ with a multi-panelled display of Mr. Rose’s shows. Yes indeed it seems the gadgets have gained a new hero in the “Name of The Rose”.

    All the Best
    Greg Jordon
    XL5 eFire Info & eBooks

  39. JD Lasica

    March 18th, 2008 at 1:10 am

    Just watched tonight’s show. Man, that’s the most purple eye I’ve ever seen on TV!

    He quickly waived off the issue in about 3 seconds. No sign of the MacBook Air, though. And no sign of Charlie slowing up to let his guests get a word in …

  40. Eric

    March 18th, 2008 at 1:16 am

    Man, Charlie looked like the beating Bear Stearns took over the weekend! And sitting across from the ueber preppy and porceline Aaron Ross Sorkin was kind of surreal.

  41. Jingo

    March 18th, 2008 at 2:26 am

    A true American hero. Charlie Rose, I salute you sir.

  42. jake

    March 18th, 2008 at 3:04 am

    ok, but if the picture with the 3 phones is taken after the fall then where is the black eye?

  43. Mike

    March 18th, 2008 at 3:13 am

    I just watched Mr. Rose’s shows tonight and stunned too. I totally agree with you “JD Lasica” and I was wondering what happen? I must miss it or he didn’t even open up the show by explaining what happen to his black eye? I don’t know why he didn’t disclose his tripped in a pothole and laugh about it. Viewers must be thing he was punched by some one?

  44. Mike

    March 18th, 2008 at 3:20 am

    If I were you Charlie, I’ll do the same thing though. For almost a $2000 notebook, who wouldn’t get hurt to protect it? Maybe he bought MBA with SSD, so that’s why he cares about it so much, haha. Anyways, bravo Mr. Rose!

  45. Alper

    March 18th, 2008 at 3:20 am

    The human body is self healing, Apple hardware isn’t (yet). Rose is one awesome dude.

  46. Sam

    March 18th, 2008 at 3:21 am

    Well they are so many operating systems coming to market,few of them you can find on this site as well http://www.lapnol.blogspot.com

  47. Windfairy

    March 18th, 2008 at 3:28 am

    I would have done the same…way to go, Charlie Rose!

  48. Vinch

    March 18th, 2008 at 3:40 am

    the other cellphone is a motorola k1 =)

  49. Andrei

    March 18th, 2008 at 4:25 am

    Moto!! Samsung =)) wtf?

  50. Abam

    March 18th, 2008 at 4:43 am

    I have always valued Mr. Rose’s show for its high merits, now his gadget adulation makes me want to cheer him.

    If would advice Mr. Rose somthing, it would be to add the Sony-Ericsson XPERIA X1 phone to his collection, ….

  51. Mike Cane

    March 18th, 2008 at 5:44 am

    He did the right thing. We meat entities can heal. A MacBook Air can’t — yet.

  52. Lloyd

    March 18th, 2008 at 5:55 am

    I dunno…sounds contrived.

    Sounds too much like when Barry Manilow said his facial wounds resulted from him “walking in to a wall.”

    There’s more to the story.

  53. Annie Sprinkles

    March 18th, 2008 at 6:30 am

    The simplest explaination is usually the right one. I think he injured himself trying to save his Mac.

  54. Michael O'Connor Clarke

    March 18th, 2008 at 6:35 am

    My theory is that he caught the shiner in a punch up with Steven Levy.

    “That’s where my MacBook Air got to - give it back, dammit!”

  55. maya

    March 18th, 2008 at 6:40 am

    I might have done the same thing… you know, the face is going to heal itself; as opposed to the macbook.

  56. Jason

    March 18th, 2008 at 7:14 am

    its a motorola I believe Micheal

  57. Jeff Crites

    March 18th, 2008 at 7:16 am

    My new Nokia N95 is nestled on my right hip in a padded holster. If, say, someone was shooting at me, I think I’d reflexively turn so my left side is facing the oncoming bullets. Because knowing my luck, if I turned the other way, the first bullet would pass through this gorgeous piece of machinery (the N95) AND my hip as well, adding unnecessary insult to injury. At least if I save the N95, I can live stream the ride to the hospital, making Scoble proud. :-)

  58. Michael Kelly

    March 18th, 2008 at 7:19 am

    I personally applaud Charlie. I think more people should take a few blows the the ol noggin to protect their toys. After all, all the things the MacBook Air does, I dont’ think it heals. A face does though!

  59. Ivan Drago

    March 18th, 2008 at 7:35 am

    I heard he fell when he heard Natali Del Conte was doing her show in Spanish.

  60. Workpost

    March 18th, 2008 at 7:46 am

    I saw the show last night and did a double take when I noticed the eye. I thought for sure that someone must have punched him and I didn’t what to make of the whole “I fell and hit pavement” explanation. I think I understand now, he was just protecting his investment.

    And that was a great first segment on Bear Stearns…

  61. R Johnson

    March 18th, 2008 at 8:06 am

    That 3rd phone is a piece of trash MotoKrzr…

  62. dude gadget

    March 18th, 2008 at 8:17 am

    dude,

    that’s why they invented insulated laptop bags. i would never carry a mac book out in the open, that’s just an accident waiting to happen.

  63. Quix

    March 18th, 2008 at 8:35 am

    I see only one scenario that would have made this story even more Apple-riffic: if Rose had sustained his injuries in a rumble with tech troll extraordinaire, John Dvorak.

    Quote Rose, “You think this looks bad? You should see Dvorak!”

  64. cell

    March 18th, 2008 at 8:44 am

    Looks like a Motorola Krazr, not a Samsung!

  65. Alex Hammer

    March 18th, 2008 at 8:57 am

    Michael is a networking genius (and good in the press) and I think that that is one major factor in his success (industry networking among the blogger A-list elite is one other).

  66. Greg

    March 18th, 2008 at 8:57 am

    It is a Motorola KRZR. Clear as day from the photo.

  67. Feldwebel Wolfenstool

    March 18th, 2008 at 9:11 am

    I think he’s a LIAR. It looks like someone COLD-COCKED him with their fist.

  68. Awesome

    March 18th, 2008 at 9:15 am

    Nice work Charlie! :-) You may not be such a spring chicken anymore, but you’ve got a bigger pair than 99% of people half your age.

    I’d like to nominate him for the first “Apple Medal of Honor”, for going above and beyond the call of duty.

  69. codo678

    March 18th, 2008 at 9:16 am

    “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?”

    Uber fail Tech Church, its a BB, iPhone and a Motorola KRZR, its got the motorola bat wings smack on the bottom.

  70. m@

    March 18th, 2008 at 9:16 am

    That is commitment. I don’t know if I respect the man or am ashamed at our world’s techno lust.

  71. TroyJMorris

    March 18th, 2008 at 9:19 am

    I love that man.

  72. Zink

    March 18th, 2008 at 9:20 am

    3rd phone is Actually a MOTOKRZR K1

  73. Henry Davis

    March 18th, 2008 at 9:42 am

    You rule! I tape the show since it comes on late here in Dallas. I had just turned it on, wondered what the….? And then I see your update on Facebook.
    You told me before he could and I had him ON!

    thanks for a good laugh on a rainy day.

  74. Scott

    March 18th, 2008 at 9:47 am

    Dude is hardcore. I think that’s a Motorola KRZR, by the way. Doesn’t quite stack up to the other two, I’d imagine.

  75. Arnold

    March 18th, 2008 at 10:05 am

    I’m actually here because I enjoyed your interview with Charlie Rose, and thought I’d check out your website. When I saw this I thought it was a joke, well, I slept too early last night to see Charlie Rose but the replay is on in 15min, so I’m gonna see it for myself. Imagine that, finding out about it first here, never having been here before. That was a pretty good interview Michael, a lot of good info.

  76. Travisq

    March 18th, 2008 at 10:18 am

    Further proof Chuck Norris just doesn’t let anyone touch his beard.

  77. Steven

    March 18th, 2008 at 10:44 am

    I missed the first 10 mins or so of the show, so I’m not sure if he may have mentioned something in the beginning or not. He didn’t mention it throughout the rest of the episode. I have to respect his openness though, most other TV personalities would have caked on the makeup, but Charlie just keeps going on like nothing happened.

  78. JessiZ

    March 18th, 2008 at 11:29 am

    Looks like this fat cat didn’t finish his plankton!

  79. Joe Hunkins

    March 18th, 2008 at 11:33 am

    Charlie Rose is my favorite journalist - he knows the right people and asks the right questions….e.g….your interview Mike! And you outdressed Chris Anderson!

  80. Arnold

    March 18th, 2008 at 11:34 am

    Steven, he mentioned it first thing to get it out of the way, said he’d taken a fall, but no mention of saving a mac air. And said to stop with the questions. It really looks like a punch in the face, maybe somebody did it to him and promised to keep quiet.

  81. Duncan

    March 18th, 2008 at 11:36 am

    Charlie Rose briefly talks about his eye here:

    http://video.google.com/videop.....5746#4m35s

  82. Jon

    March 18th, 2008 at 12:44 pm

    Yep, it’s a blue Motorola KRZR. I love mine. Second best phone I ever had.

    And it’s really hard to tell if the phone on the left is a Blackberry or a Q.

  83. contrarian

    March 18th, 2008 at 12:50 pm

    Hate to interject in this lovefest. But Rose is a too strongly biased political operative to be a PBS interviewer. His whole body language and manner of speaking and questioning is different when he is interviewing his favorite left wing folks than when he tosses in an occasional non-leftist for interviews. You can read Rose’s ideology like a Dick and Jane book.

  84. Larry Chiang

    March 18th, 2008 at 1:20 pm

    I smell spousal abuse ;-)

  85. eb

    March 18th, 2008 at 1:51 pm

    You are absolutely correct, Larry. Rose may pretend to be a decent human being, and may even believe himself to be a liberal, but his obvious affection for conservatives and clear disdain for liberals are impossible to disguise. The man is a right-winger, pure and simple. And quite religious to boot. Very typical of PBS denizons these days, unfortunately.

  86. esbekay

    March 18th, 2008 at 2:21 pm

    Didn’t anybody notice Charlie is holding a jailbroke iPhone?

    Awesome.

  87. phillc

    March 18th, 2008 at 2:22 pm

    that blackberry looks like a treo to me

  88. iMacDave

    March 18th, 2008 at 3:59 pm

    Self preservation first, Expensive computing hardware second.

    I’m as big a Mac fan as most others on this post probably are. Remember, you can get a new Mac but it’s kind of difficult to get a new face.

  89. karen mcadams

    March 18th, 2008 at 4:03 pm

    Yeah, he knew that the macbook air would be complete garbage if it experienced even the slightest bump. great computer if treated with kid gloves, but so much as drop it - gasp! and its ready for the trash heap.

  90. Richard

    March 18th, 2008 at 4:20 pm

    Hate to be the bearer of bad news for all you Mac fans out there, but Charlie Rose did NOT get his black eye that way. In fact, he recieved it in a fistfight during a St. Patty’s day altercation in a bar.

    Yup. It was covered up because none of the producers want to know that Charlie Rose, he of the cool level head and intelligent decisions, got drunk and got his ass kicked.

    Obviously there’s no way for me to prove it, and the only way I know of this is because I have a friend who was IN the actual production meeting trying not to crack up as the higher-ups tried to figure out a decent story to cover it all up…

  91. -hh

    March 18th, 2008 at 4:37 pm

    While I’m humored at the “Free Press” for Apple and the MBA, the comments here make it sound like no one has ever dropped anything.

    If you’re carrying something that *you* value, but then start to drop it, its only natural to try to make a catch. Sometimes, we simply make a bad choice in that split-second.

    -hh

  92. DoodleWhore.com

    March 18th, 2008 at 7:56 pm

    My artists conception of Charlie Rose saving his Macbook: http://doodlewhore.blogspot.co.....olved.html

  93. PForbes

    March 18th, 2008 at 8:26 pm

    How about allowing all mac owners to get free charlie rose podcasts - backdated stock of interviews included?

  94. barbara kramar

    March 18th, 2008 at 9:41 pm

    like it’s said - it wasn’t a pc he saved, it was a macintosh. there is a difference.

  95. ann martin schneider

    March 18th, 2008 at 10:20 pm

    Isn’t it wonderful that all we had to do was Google ” Charlie Rose bandage” to find out what happened to the most intelligent journalist anywhere!

  96. Bajsa

    March 19th, 2008 at 4:25 am

    Who cares?

  97. Marquitox

    March 19th, 2008 at 5:58 am

    MOTOROLA!!! Not Samsung!!!!

  98. Tyler

    March 19th, 2008 at 6:00 am

    I think many of use would have done the same thing. Hmm.. face or MacBook Air… yeah the face.

  99. Lucas62

    March 19th, 2008 at 7:38 am

    I am with Larry (#84).
    But I thought he is single…..
    So…. who was the lucky lady that threw the punch?
    that may be meat for a Springer show!

    as for Charlie’s reporting quality:his obvious bias in politics disminishes his potential, his style sometimes distracts the focus of the issues.
    At his best in culture, arts and science topics. At his worst when discussing politics with “expert analysts”. Or when loses control of the interview (Ahmadinejad’s interview). But still, he is better than most in TV.

  100. Ken

    March 19th, 2008 at 8:32 am

    Face healing: Time
    MackBook Air replacement: $2700
    A working laptop: Priceless

  101. Knee Jerk

    March 19th, 2008 at 9:05 am

    I did something similar to save my computer monitor while falling down stairs. Saved the monitor by letting the monitor fall on my thigh, had to have knee surgery. I was insured; the monitor wasn’t.

  102. FunnyGuy

    March 19th, 2008 at 11:27 am

    If only Charlie had known that he could give an ON AIR blowjob to Steve Jobs like Rush Limbaugh allegedly did, he might have let the MacBook Air tumble and save that pretty face of his.

    :-(

  103. Tom E

    March 19th, 2008 at 2:09 pm

    Why does anyone need three phones? You only have 2 ears!

  104. Larry Miller

    March 19th, 2008 at 3:24 pm

    So now that Charlie is sporting a classical shiner (black eye for those of you too young to know what a shiner is),

    and given that Charlie is indeed a thought leader,

    will he now become a fashion leader, and a black eye now become fashionable? As in for example, using makeup to give yourself one?

    Or in mundane manner will New York City now launch an anti-pothole campaign

    (Or was he just refusing to be upstaged by Obama’s majestic yet controversial speech that same day?)

    Heal fast Charlie. Take your vitamin C. Keep the cut covered.

  105. George Girton

    March 19th, 2008 at 3:44 pm

    Hey! Not only does Charlie Rose earn tech cred, but simultaneously a big chunk of STREET cred too! Owie!

  106. Damian

    March 19th, 2008 at 5:35 pm

    Looks like Charlie got a slap from someone!

  107. Graham Ellison

    March 19th, 2008 at 5:45 pm

    Larry Miller
    March 19th, 2008 at 3:24 pm

    “(Or was he just refusing to be upstaged by Obama’s majestic yet controversial speech that same day?)”

    What was controversial about Obama’s speech?

    I thought he made the best case of any living American, for the right to serve his country. I wish him luck.

    Charlie Rose was in a bar fight with a [right] hooker.

    G

  108. pam

    March 19th, 2008 at 9:57 pm

    HOGWASH! I don’t believe he was walking on 59th St. with a naked laptop unless he had so many rumpled papers in his briefcase that there wasn’t 7/8″ left for the laptop…

    If he does have a laptop, Miss Manners suggests that he put it to good use, lose the noisy papers, and keep his hands on the keyboard while speaking.
    His guests would probably appreciate it, and Miss Manners would, too.

  109. Whys

    March 19th, 2008 at 11:10 pm

    Richard,

    Thank you, I believe every word. It follows human motive and that shinner looks every bit the result of a right cross.

    I can see the executives now, bickering about how to spin it and kiss apples but.

  110. Jacqueline

    March 20th, 2008 at 11:29 am

    I agree with JD Lasica — Rose is constantly interrupting his guests. And he rarely challenges them on anything.

  111. Larry Miller

    March 20th, 2008 at 11:57 am

    Graham Ellison writes:

    > What was controversial about Obama’s speech?

    > I thought he made the best case of any living American, for the right to serve his country. I wish him luck

    Listening to occasional radio and TV controversy about it is why I said that. He raised the stakes, raised the topic to an intellectual level, not just to one of handouts. I too wish him luck.

    Interesting that as I caught a bit O’Reilly, he was pointing out how this had badly hurt Obama and Hillary was getting well ahead. I flipped to CNN which said that Hillary would probably never catch up, just the opposite. I’d noted in weeks previous that O’R was very supportive of and kind to Obama, and I was waiting for him to show himself playing possum and come out and try to reduce Obama to his size. He’s trying. I think whichever Dem is leading he tries to skewer. No spin, indeed!

    Hillary’s bright but a hack pol. He’s actually capable of original thought. But he never did answer how he stood there for 20 years saying zilch about some challenging pastor commentary and that’s the controversial part. –???

  112. Jim

    March 20th, 2008 at 3:52 pm

    I was channel surfing and ran across his show and was wondering what happened to him. Thanks for the warning; I’ll stay off of 59th street. But I would do the same for my MBA. I mistakenly left mine in a Starbucks last night and became the worst road hog in town going back to get it. Weird thing is, I made up my mind on the way that if it wasn’t there when I got back, I was going to buy a replacement the next morning. Serious love.

  113. Ddogg

    March 21st, 2008 at 9:11 am

    It’s a motorola

  114. drenegoi

    March 21st, 2008 at 10:01 pm

    Sweet, Rose! You 80’s ghetto now … get out the linoleum and the boom box.

  115. Alper Celik

    March 22nd, 2008 at 5:58 am

    coool

  116. John M.

    March 22nd, 2008 at 4:21 pm

    Mr. Rose Has Got to be one of the most annoying interviewers of All time. “I’m trying to understand…just let me understand…” blah! I get angry just thinking of quotes. Ofter I have fantasized sitting across His table and, yes giving him a shinner! I can see him running into a plastered Christopher Hitchens. What fun. Somebody please youtube it!

  117. Joi T.

    March 22nd, 2008 at 8:29 pm

    The phone on the left is a Treo, NOT a Blackberry and I covet the Macbook Air so I’m loving the story!!

  118. Clydie

    March 23rd, 2008 at 10:47 am

    I’ve seen and taken some face plants in my day, and I’ve never come out looking like that. Rose was obviously punched. He’s got the typical “walked into a door” shiner, not a concrete Louganis face ding.

  119. j

    March 23rd, 2008 at 1:22 pm

    It’s actually a KRAZR. Moto. The phone on the right.

  120. lucile darcy

    March 26th, 2008 at 12:08 pm

    am not particularly a fan of mr. rose, but falls on concrete with subsequent identical injuries to my face began for me when I was about his age so I do not suspect fisticuffs were involved!!!!

  121. gregory dillon

    March 26th, 2008 at 12:44 pm

    There can’t be a nicer guy than Charlie but I’ll be damned if I am going to hold onto a peice of technology worth maybe $1,500 to have a face like that. As much as I really like Charlie Rose that was certainly a foolish split-second move. Years back I had just about done the same thing but with a different type of electronic which would have broken,the difference being I was quite poor at that time so I took the broken nose but saved 2 grand

  122. Cathryn Hrudicka

    March 28th, 2008 at 1:31 am

    Now, after a very busy week, I find out what happened to Charlie Rose! I saw his show last week, with no explanation as to how he got that shiner and the bandaged head. My eye hurt watching him. Now there’s a sense of priorities, saving the MacBook Air over potentially cracking your skull. I do admire him for going on-air as though nothing had happened and just doing his job. Props to Charlie!

  123. Don Baker

    March 31st, 2008 at 8:24 pm

    Like everyone else, I was shocked by Mr. Rose’s injury but I truly understand. I have a Mac Book Pro laptop, Mac Pro desktop topped out at 16GB of RAM and an iPhone. I would gladly take one to the face to save my tech babies. Bruises Heal. Laptops and desktops don’t.

  124. Alex

    March 31st, 2008 at 8:50 pm

    Very few people know that Charlie has a problem with touching other men’s wives…. I’m serious, he grabbed my wife’s behind at a party last year in Manhattan. I believe he picked up this black eye by a guy with a little less anger management.

  125. electronix_tech

    April 1st, 2008 at 5:24 pm

    Charle Rose is a member of the Bilderberg Group. If you don’t know what that is then educate yourself. Bought and paid for. Bilderberg Exposed In Europe; Exclusive Reports Confirmed Exclusive to American Free Press By James P. Tucker. JOURNALISTIC PROSTITUTES

    Bilderberg has, at one time or another, had representatives of all major U.S. newspapers and network news outlets attend. They do so on their promise to report nothing. This is how Bilderberg keeps its news blackout virtually complete in the United States.

    This year’s crop includes Jim Hoagland (a regular) and Charles Krauthammer, both columnists for The Washington Post, Jean de Belot of France, editor of le Figaro; John Bernder of Norway, director-general of Norwegian Broadcasting Corp.; Paul Gigot, editorial page editor of the “conservative” Wall Street Journal; Charlie Rose, producer of Rose Communications who appears on public radio; Toger Seidenfaden of Denmark, editor-in-chief of Politiken and Kenneth Whyte of Canada, editor of The National Post.

    Conrad Black, owner of a string of newspapers around the world, attended as a regular.

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