Goodbye to Hunt and the ‘Gang’

Cousin TVNewser talks with Al Hunt about the legacy of Capitol Gang, which ended this weekend:

So what kept CNN’s Capital Gang going? “Sterling personalities? Great reportorial insights? I don’t know,” Hunt said in a phone interview. “I think we had fun, I think that showed, and I think we had lots of cumulative experiences that we brought [to the table].”

Hotline on Friday reported on the Gang’s going-away party, including some of the more bizarre scenes, including Senator Chris Dodd kissing Bob Novak on the cheek “although Novak has suggested the Connecticut Senator is doing Fidel Castro’s bidding in opposing John Bolton”; “Barbara Comstock, the take-no-prisoners former top aide to John Ashcroft, telling a surprised Ted Kennedy she interned for him 25 years ago”; and “Al Haig, Watergate chief of staff to Richard Nixon, a graduate of Duke Law School, telling 18 year-old Benjamin Hunt, who’s going to Duke in the fall, ‘You’ll learn how to erase tapes.’”

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