There’s hardly a bad seat in the Fleet Center, even if I did feel like I was sitting close enough to touch the hundreds of balloons attached to the ceiling that will drop on Thursday. (Did I just spoil a surprise?) Perhaps I was sitting in the mysterious blogosphere? Anyway, one game I played while lesser-known speakers were at the podium was to try to figure out who was occupying CNN’s set, which was arranged on the convention floor below. To get a sense of the size of the place, here are a few of my guesses as to Larry King’s guests, accompanied by their actual identities as confirmed by the transcript:
    
    My guess: Britney Spears
    Actually: Vanessa Kerry
    
    My guess: Natalie Portman
    Actually: Alexandra Kerry
    
    My guess: Rudy Giuliani
    Actually: ex-Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell (for whom I worked as an intern one summer)
    

Cheese head and CNN’s Wolf Blitzer

Protesters outside the Fleet Center

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