Posted on 01/06/2008 3:00:21 PM PST by LibFreeOrDie
Manchester – When a piece of chicken got stuck in journalist Al Hunt's windpipe Friday night, Sen. John Sununu came to the rescue.
"John was terrific," said Hunt, 65, executive editor for Washington at Bloomberg News. "He quickly jumped up, put his arms around me, did the (Heimlich) maneuver. Within about two seconds, it came out."
Hunt and Sununu were sitting next to each other Friday night at the Hanover Street Chop House in downtown Manchester. The table was packed with powerbrokers, politicians and prominent journalists, including columnist Bob Novak, New York Times managing editor Jill Abramson and Hunt's wife, Judy Woodruff.
Hunt said he stood up at the table, trying to purge the piece of chicken, when Sununu sprung into action.
"It was really, really quick," Hunt said. "Some people were saying they didn't even know it had happened. But, as I say, he was fabulous."
The incident happened around 9 p.m., Hunt said.
Dinner resumed, he said, and the chewing and chatting continued until well after midnight.
Well, that’s it, then. The only solution is for the government to ban chicken so this can never happen again./s/
I’m sure this will come up in his re-election campaign.
Al Hunt is an A—hole from New Yak.
Good man in a tight corner.
Al Hunt is Judy Woodruff’s husband.
Good thing it was young John instead of the old man. I don’t know if he would have been tall enough to do any good on Al.
The Sheehan prospects for that seat just took a dive.
Hunt would have expired while I was deciding to help or not...well, just kidding, I guess, but I would have thought about it.
Good job, John: now about answering my emails a bit less than 2 months after I send them...
wow
I would have been rooting for the chicken. LOL
Oh yeah, I remember that tool!
LOL!
The smug, smarmy Al Hunt, huh ... I wish the SOB would have — well, never mind, we need to be gracious ... even to smug, smarmy SOBs.
A journalist! Hope Sununu didn’t get any of it on him.
In other campaign excitement up here in NH, 75 members of the Clinton campaign lost their hotel rooms to a fire. Perhaps it’s a sign from above???
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