Teresa Strasser

Right, why didn't this person bring it up?

Now, what publishers should do, which they don't do because they're arrogant and stupid most of the time, is they should say...

We really can't talk about this.

Paul really can't talk about this.

But I understand that you can't just do an hour interview and pretend like it didn't exist.

What you can do and what we should do is you can bring it up.

You can say, Paul, what about all this Letterman business going on?

And then Paul can say, I really can't discuss that because of legal and because of CBS and because also, you know, Dave has asked me not to, whatever.

Fine.

Now, I've done my job.

The audience isn't bumped.

Nothing was given away.

And you've moved along and you can move along with everyone satisfied, essentially, and you can move on with the interview.

Yeah.

By the way, as a fucking publicist, that should be part of your job, a strategy, not just a no policy.

You can't talk to Monica Lewinsky about blowjobs or whatever.

She wants to talk about handbags.

You should discuss it.

So, of course, the publicist never does that.

The publicist goes, you buy it, and they tell you 15 times, you can't talk about this, you can't talk about this, which makes you a fucking idiot because, of course, it needs to come up.