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Quincy Jones campaigns for Minister of Culture by hitting on Soledad O'Brien on national television [Emphasis added]
JONES: My biggest dream is -- I know he's got his hands full with the economic fallout and with the Gaza, et cetera, and so (INAUDIBLE) long time.
And, on a parallel path, though, I'm going to -- as soon as it's feasible, to talk to him. We're getting a petition together for a secretary of the arts with a real Cabinet membership and all, because America is the only country -- whose music is probably most imitated in any country in the world -- the only country without a minister of culture or a secretary of the arts. And I think it's very important, could change this country...
(CROSSTALK)
O'BRIEN: I know you put that proposal forward before.
Quincy, Soledad O'Brien is here. She wants to talk to you as well.
JONES: Who is that?
O'BRIEN: I was going to ask you about the impact of Barack Obama, but actually...
BLITZER: Soledad O'Brien is here. And she's going to ask you a question.
O'BRIEN: Hey, Quincy. It's Soledad.
(CROSSTALK)
JONES: You're so cute, girl, Soledad.
(CROSSTALK)
O'BRIEN: I'm so cute?
(LAUGHTER)
O'BRIEN: Quincy, you know I love you right back.
(CROSSTALK)
JONES: You're so cute, good God. O'BRIEN: Who did you think should be secretary of the arts?
(LAUGHTER)
BLITZER: She's asking a serious question, Quincy, and you're trying to be not so serious.
(CROSSTALK)
O'BRIEN: I'm getting nowhere.
BLITZER: Yes.
Who do you want to be the secretary of arts or the culture minister in the United States?
JONES: Who is that?
BLITZER: Who do you want to be secretary of arts?
JONES: Well, what we're doing before that is we're putting together a summit, so you will have the greatest minds on the planet, you know, that can be like an advisory board to that. ...
We want video. ... Wonkette, asleep at the switch! ... [Thanks to alert viewer M.] 4:50 P.M.
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