KOEB Meeting 12/9/05: The "Read It and Weep" Edition [View All]

[Berry Cool]

Imagine having the opportunity today to meet this:



and now read about how one person paid $8,390 in an eBay auction to do so...
...and, well, to do other stuff, too...
...and GAVE AWAY THE CHANCE, so a couple of Iraq War vets could have some fun instead:

Clout | Flavia & the vets: A New York story

THE WINNER of the Flavia Colgan auction on eBay is a Washington real estate tycoon - who promptly gave up his prize.

Joseph E. Robert Jr. shelled out $8,390 to spend this evening with Colgan, MSNBC pundette and Clout-created celebrity, at gala Pennsylvania Society events in New York City.

But he's not going. Instead, he asked that the night on the town be given to a couple of Iraq War veterans.

Robert wants to treat the vets because his son, Cpl. Joseph E. Robert III, recently completed a tour of duty in Fallujah.

To recap, Colgan, at the instigation of the Web site politicspa.com, auctioned herself to raise money for the Boys and Girls Club of Central Pennsylvania.

Who gets the prize? Former Army Capt. Jon Soltz, of western Pennsylvania and Marine Reserve Maj. Mike Zacchea, of Long Island.

Soltz and Zacchea were to be limoed to the MSNBC TV studio in Secaucus, N.J., to meet program hosts Tucker Carlson, Joe Scarborough and Keith Olbermann. They'll watch Colgan tape a show with Carlson.

Then it's back to Manhattan tonight for a steak dinner and a bottle of Dom Perignon, a taping of Janeane Garofalo's "Air America" radio show and a round of parties at the Waldorf-Astoria.

http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/news/local/13370520.htm

Now, the question is...if YOU shelled out this kind of dough for the chance to meet Keith (yeah, the other stuff is OK, but to MEET KEITH...)...the question is...could YOU be kind and give it up to our fighting heroes?

Heh. Heh. Heh. Me? I'd be saying "Guys, go party with Flavia. I'll stay here with Keith." :evilgrin:

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(photo edited in honor of The Tie!!)