One dinner. Four journalists. And you. Whom do you choose?

Jim Murray
Dan Jenkins
Carl Bernstein (Woodward seems like he'd be humorless)
Edward R. Murrow

Of course, I'd probably need to have a lung removed after dinner was over.

I love the Linda Ellerbee suggestion as well. Way back when, watching Overnight was pretty much SOP after getting home from work.

 

(Dead) Columnists dinner:
Mike Royko, Lewis Grizzard, Art Buchwald, Ralph Wiley.

Old, old school:
Grantland Rice, Jim Murrary, Herbert Warren Wind or Shirley Povich and WC Heinz

Ladies:
Sally Jenkins, (I would talk shit about her dad), Jemele Hill (she has grown on me and I want to here more about her beliefs regarding oral sex), Linda Ellerbee and Robin Roberts

The regulars:
Ed Bouchette, Vin Scully (Please let him count) if not I'll take Guy Yocum, Dave Kindred and David Feherty

After-Dinner Drinks:
Burt Sugar, Jimmy Breslin, Jerry Izenberg and Frank DeFord

Fuckabuncha Dan Jenkins.

 

the big lead, ben maller, sports by brooks, and al morganti.

 

Royko, O'Rourke, Murray and J.J. Hunsecker.

 

I also want Bud Leavitt to join us. He may not have been as good a writer as any of my other three but I bet he'd still tell the best stories over dinner.

I'll leave the table and sit by the bar, if necessary. Bud's voice would carry over the juke box.

 

"Match me, Sidney."

 

Jim Murray, with the help of a seance, of course
Selena Roberts
Bill Plaschke
Steve Coll

 

Steve Coll is a phenomenal selection. The smartest man I've ever met.

 

Hemingway. Royko. Breslin. Tim O'Brien.

 

21, Fenian, Alma and Spaceman

 

But you'd never get a word in, Boom.