Thats how the times gets multiple sources

It's her new "recorder-for-hire" business on craigslist. You mail your mobile to her. She records the interview and sends it back to you. Then you write a ridiculously slanted piece with a bad headline for the HuffPo.

"I've giv'n her all she's got captain, an' I canna give her no more."

That's actually Edward Scissorhands' younger, red-headed sister ... Monica Celphonehands ...

1 recording device
1 cell phone to Matt Drudge
1 cell-phone to mom
1 cell phone to Hil-Hil camp
1 pager she didn't realize is an outdated non-recording piece of techmology
1 cell phone to text mad LOLZ to BFF

Note to self: Don't forget to pack the other 5 recorders!

Digg it:

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@DonLaFontaine: That is out-fucking-standing.

Body By Jake's new training regimen for the National Texting Championship.

P.S. I think I saw her name in the Mitchell Report next to Roger Clemens.

Maybe if Barry Hussein Idi Amin Blowbama dropped the fake southern accent and stopped acting like the Messiah he wouldn't be sending everyone other than his base constituency running screaming to Hillary and John.

Seriously, I think she may be holding the recorders for other reporters who couldn't get near enough.

I'm a journalist in Los Angeles, which means there are lots of TV cameras around. Because I'm short, I generally don't get in the way of the cameras, so the photogs let me up front so I can see and hold my microphone. That means I usually am more up close and personal than a lot of my colleagues. I also know that if I do nice things for my fellow reporters, they will do nice thngs for me on the days I show up late to a press conference, and so I offer to carry recording devices for other, less fortunate people who have to hang back because they are taller than I. So I am generally holding several TV mics, a radio mic or two, and some digital recorders for the print guys. So my guess is: she's not overdoing it, she's just short and nice, or at the very least knows she'll need a favor sooner rather than later.

@TheOne: You got it.

@Helman:

Actually, I knew her as Mónica Manosteléfonosmóviles when she lived in Valencia, but I never forget a face ...

Oh, ha, I didn't notice she was on a plane until right now - yeah probably other reporters either were filing or couldn't get on. Sorry. Back to my coffee.

Doable. One for the pink and one for the stink leaves 8 for the voice recorders.

Why has no one brought up the fact that she has man-arms?

@Goober_Pea: You'd have to in order to hold that many recorders at once!

What's that guy doing behind Obama?

Barack just wants to get to the bathroom and drain the monster.

"Yes we CAN... hear you now"

Not gonna be the first to say this in a public forum, yet feel it must be said:  Obama is Spock.   I didn't realize it until seeing him and the word "illogical" side-by-side...


"I object to intellect without discipline; I object to power without constructive purpose."--Spock in ST episode, "The Squire of Gothos"


(for the record, I don't know Spock quotes. the above is the result of a cursory Google search.)

I am guessing a couple are hers and she's holding a few others for friends since she got such a good spot.

I'm surprised I didn't hear about this first on Ana Marie's Twitter, but...

maybe it's one of those weird photoshoppy deals, like how P6 ran that pic of Lindsay Lohan with ten fingers on one hand.

@MarxMarvelous: In this age of the digital recorder, why is that even necessary?

Why not just record the interview using one device, and then e-mail the sound file to everyone else? Or let them download the sound file to their laptops using a little USB flash drive?

I mean, I ain't no "digital native," and even I can figure that out.

@The Beast of Foggy Bottom: I base my vote on the funny names people call the candidates.

I was going to vote for Obama. But then you called him "Barry Hussein Idi Amin Blowbama," so now I'm going to vote for McCain.

@MisterHippity: I work for a multi-platform news agency. I have to usually carry at least three devices. Camera for videotaping, audio recorder, and sometimes a big flash mike. It's not as seamless as you might assume. Audio quality on the camera isn't studio quality, sound on audio recorder too hot if you're too close ... yada fucking yada. It is a pain in the ass, or more specifically, a pain in the neck and shoulders.

Poor me!!! Such as!

@trojanhorse:

That's the white half of Obama.

they just showed video this press avail. on MSNBC. she was juggling those things like a circus clown, turning them all on one at a time...very impressive.

@Tippi from Toronto: Jane Austen was allowed to split infinitives. You're not.

@trojanhorse: Ouch. I have to really say that's way harsh.

As a former journo, yes, we used to hold other reporters' microphones, tape recorders, cell phones all the time, as a courtesy. Our hands often ended up all crooked and shit afterwards, and it was hard to masturbate, but there you have it.

If I had that many awesome handheld devices I'd want to show them to Obama too.

@misspie: One has to boldly go where no man has gone before.

That's Jen Psaki, one of the Obama traveling press folk. She has a recorder there so they can make a transcript of his comments.

@trojanhorse: I hate the "no splitting infinitives" rule and have been disobeying it for years, because I prefer to write the way people talk.

AP is big on it though. My company has declared the rule bullshit.

But it's refreshing to engage in a grammar debate! Beats a debate about Julia Allison's hooters!

@Tippi from Toronto: You defame AP unfairly. The AP Stylebook lets you split infinitives. I know, because I use it daily (it's my bible).

All her friends wanted to get pictures of Barack Obama on their cell phones.

a newbie in obama's travel press corps, and late for the plane, she forgot to grab her phone chargers out of the gray bins passing security. uh-oh, she got scooped.

It would be so much easier if she just plugged a cord into him.

@MisterHippity: Really? GREAT!!!! They used to be fairly hardass about it. I used to see it in their copy all the time -- infinitives always together -- and it used to drive me nuts because it was so awkward and stilted.

One is a recording device, the others allow her to keep up with her soaps...its a hard life on the trail.

With that kind of manual dexterity, she's made many a new friend in the traveling press corps.

Showing the love with six recorder-thingamajigs, one for each in-law.

She's recording in Dolby 5.1, the discrete way ;)

She's trying to give him Brain Cancer

She is obviously doing finger stretching exercises so she can shred like Malmsteen.

@ouiserboudreaux: I know this isn't a caption competition, but... FTW! If Obama could offer that, Hillers and Maccers would be but distant memories now...