Libby Lewis on Lewis Libby
Listening to NPR the other day, I heard a story filed by NPR National Desk reporter Libby Lewis. Immediately I had to wonder why she isn’t covering the Lewis Libby scandal. If I worked at the assignment desk, I’d put her on every story about the Vice President’s former Chief of Staff. I’d get a little kick out of hearing her introduced. “With more on Lewis Libby, here’s NPR’s Libby Lewis.”
Hmm. It looks like she has covered the story occasionally. Well then consider this a call for more Lewis Libby stories by Libby Lewis!
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NPR mentioned some months ago how Libby Lewis covering Lewis Libby confused listeners. If I’m not mistaken, they even got calls/emails with corrections from people who thought the reporter had gotten the man’s name wrong. That might explain why she doesn’t cover the story more? I don’t know. Just a guess.
Posted by: patricia | February 13, 2007 10:13 AM
This also struck me as a rather amusing nomenclatural curiosity, but it did not occur to me until I actually heard one of the Libby stories reported by Ms. Lewis!
Here is the Morning Edition segment where they comment on it: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4987607
Posted by: Clay | February 13, 2007 2:07 PM
In a similar vein of NPR name fun, I love it whenever they talk about Lt. Gen. David H. Petraeus. I get a good chuckle whenever I hear a radio announcer say something along the lines of, “…joining the ground forces in Iraq is General Betray-Us.” This is the best name for a general ever. Way better even than if the guy was named Benedict Arnold.
Heh. I love it!
Posted by: Jordan | February 13, 2007 3:18 PM
I’ve heard her before on NPR and chuckled at the irony. One thing for sure, Ms Lewis is much cuter than Scooter.
Posted by: yellojkt | February 14, 2007 11:05 AM
Sure enough, Libby Lewis reported on the Lewis Libby verdict tonight. I got a big laugh out of it on the drive home.
Posted by: Audrey Kaplan | March 6, 2007 9:54 PM
Yes, I thought I had heard her name correctly but was I crazy? ..So I googled “Libby Lewis” to make sure, leading me to this page. It is amusing.
Posted by: marvin belzer | March 7, 2007 12:05 AM
Yeah, it’s interesting to see this as I too just noticed this when she did some reporting on the Lewis Libby trial on NPR tonight.
Posted by: Shelby | March 8, 2007 12:22 AM