Dracula Has Risen from the Grave--Why Can't You?

Franklin Foer on Judith Miller:

The simple fact about Miller is that you can't stop her, you can't even hope to contain her. It's the exact reason you can't negotiate with a crazed dictator: Miller doesn't play by the same rules or operate under the same set of mores as the rest of us. She overflows with so much gumption and so much ambition that she will always claw her way back from whatever Elba-like bureaucratic beat the editors consign her to, back into the limelight. You will always live in fear of her breaking agreements and finding new, creative ways to burn you. Removing her from the building was Keller's only sane option....

Now that Miller has left 43rd Street, she will surely continue to embarrass the paper. She still apparently has powerful friends in New York. It's easy to imagine her worming her way back into Charlie Rose's chair, commenting on this and that.

Hey, if Ahmed Chalabi can stage a comeback, there's no reason his American representative can't pull it off too. The good news: If she follows Foer's scenario and chooses the Charlie Rose show as her return route to stardom, she won't be able to get a word in edgewise once she gets there.

Comments

R C Dean | November 10, 2005, 10:47am | #

Hey, if Mary Mapes can stage a comeback, anyone can.

Sandy | November 10, 2005, 10:59am | #

If she replaces Charlie Rose, will that be a bad thing? He almost makes Larry "I was talking to {Insert Celeb}..." King look good.

gaius marius | November 10, 2005, 11:04am | #

if Ahmed Chalabi can stage a comeback, there's no reason his American representative can't pull it off too.

this elicited a geniune guffaw, mr walker. nicely put.

Abdul | November 10, 2005, 11:59am | #

Hey, i saw this movie. Maybe the NYT editors can't stop Miller the Killer Journalist From the Future with today's weapons, but they can always crush her in a giant drill press.

Ken Shultz | November 10, 2005, 12:30pm | #

Somebody around Charlie must have told him about interrupting his guests, right? ...I mean, he's been doin' it for years--he's got to know, right?

He seems to shut up for curators, art historians and architects, but, for whatever reason, everyone else gets the blabbermouth treatment.

...and he has such great guests too. CEOs are always a bore, and I've never heard an actor say anything interesting about their craft, but he gets guests you'd never see anywhere else.

Hakluyt | November 10, 2005, 1:45pm | #

Will she bring her flying monkeys with her?

Ron Hardin | November 10, 2005, 1:45pm | #

Able was I ere I saw Elba.

Though I prefer Madam I'm macadam in this case.

Shem | November 10, 2005, 2:31pm | #

Ron-That's not a palindrome. "Madam I'm Adam" would be, however.

Maybe Miller will catch a virus that her alien physiology is incapable of fighting off and we'll be done with her. Hey, it worked in War of the Worlds.