The Kyra Carnival

Just a quick note on all the hype over Kyra Phillips and her national bathroom moment-

Kyra and her husband John are very good friends and it’s rather surreal to see her going through a bunch of hoopla over off-air comments made public- after she was so helpful to me back when I was dealing with fallout caused by inadvertently open microphones just a couple of years ago.

It looks like she’ll fare a bit better than the Reg Guys did. After all, most of her private/public comments were positive things about her husband. As for her future relations with her sister-in-law. That’s to be worked out between family members, and who knows how ugly that will get before it’s resolved?

We haven’t spoken directly since the incident. But through several traded voice-mails my sense is that the whole thing has been a bit of an emotional roller-coaster. At first she was in good spirits about it, making jokes, etc. But day two brought on a lot of unexpected criticism that seemed to change the mood a bit.

I didn’t get all that inquisitive over the phone because Jane and I had been planning to get together with Kyra and John for dinner tonight- so I thought I’d wait to see how the whole thing shook out. Then I received the last in the series of voice-mails this afternoon and she broke it to me that they had to cancel dinner because she was going to New York to appear on Letterman tonight.

So there it is- the full circle. She was embarrassed, then attacked by Rush and comics all around- and now she’ll appear on Dave and be her charming self and win people over. It’s quite possible that this will end up being the biggest boost her career has ever had.

It’s a funny world.