Live TV

This feedback effect happens to reporters live in the field all the time, and it's annoying as heck. It's a glitch that control rooms can't seem to stop from happening at least once a week. TV reporters learn that when it happens they just have to plow ahead through their notes and do their best to ignore their own voice. Sometimes you'll see a reporter in the middle of a live shot just yank their IFB out of their ear and keep talking, and that's usually why. I was a TV reporter 10 years ago, funny that they still haven't fixed this.

I heard a couple of morning djs (you know, typical obnoxious types) entertaining themselves by doing this to unsuspecting guests. Some of them were completely undone.

Yup. What Red Dirt said. Pull the headphone and trust the engineers. Were you in a situation where you could do that? IE, could you have heard the interviewer without it?

Didn't catch this last night, but I just watched the streaming video at PBS's online NewsHour site. FWIW, you didn't seem incoherent to me, Rod, other than the 'sticking/staying' moment which honestly could happen in casual conversation without any engineering glitches.

I'm curious as to whether you've encountered any people in Dallas, particularly the more-Republican-than-conservative sort, who still give unqualified support to the war in Iraq? It seems to me that even some of the die-hard supporters I used to talk to are starting to admit that we need to get out of the situation, and it struck me when I was watching the video that it's been a while since I've heard anyone claim that we need a permanent presence in Iraq to safeguard American interests, or take a position even close to that. I can't help but wonder whether a sense that this administration really is incompetent and untrustworthy isn't responsible for the loss of commitment to Iraq among those who initially supported our presence there and continued to do so up until recently.