Excuse Me, But I’m Trying To Eat Here.

So the other night at dinner at Mack’s, some collection agent walked right up to me in the middle of my meal and started talking about how I was three months’ behind on my car payment.

No, not really, but apparently a similar thing happened between Sheryl “Lance Dumped Me” Crow, Laurie “My husband is not as funny as he thinks” David and Karl “Please God don’t Let Me Rap Again” Rove.

I’m not Rove’s biggest fan, but I have to say that I’m kind of on his side on this one. I realise the Correspondents’ Dinner has a long-standing history of being oodles of irreverent sass all bundled up with bad chicken, but I still think that Crow and David were out of line. There’s a time and a place for serious conversation. I think most of us learned when we were about 18 or 19 that you don’t walk up to someone at a formal dinner and accost them about your political differences. That krep may work on maudlin CW dramas–”Dean Krumholz, don’t you care about the monkeys in the lab?!?”–but doesn’t fly in the real world.

All of the coverage I’ve seen has been word-of-mouth reports from Crow and David, with no third party actually witnessing the event. I’d love to see a third-party’s take on the thing. Because right now it seems all we have is some bitchy gossip from Crow and David about what went down. I know this country thinks that gossip passes for news, but I’m still finicky about that.

UPDATE:  I’m not actually behind in my car payment.  My car is actually paid for.  It was just an example.  Don’t freak out.