Will the OC Register nose-picker please desist at once?

It's terrible that this nose picker is allowed to disrupt Lance Armstrong's TV time like that.

 

My doctor said I wouldn't get so many bloody noses if I kept my finger out of it.

 

You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose. But you can't pick your friend's nose.

 

Apparently all grown up and covering Arkansas.

 

Noble protest? Nope. Just some bad, bad manners.

http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2007/08/register_editor_cp_smith.php

On his side of the backdrop, CP didn't notice the TV technician try to wave at him against the glare of the lights on the plastic. And yes, he did absent-mindedly stick his finger in his nose, just like all of us have done at one time.

Most of us don't get caught doing it on TV. And most of us don't have the photo flashed around the workplace and then out into the world of blogs or get accused of doing it spitefully.

And most of us don't end a distinguished 35-year newspaper career as the victim of drive-by journalism.

I talked to CP last night at his home where he was riding out mixed emotions. He said he was embarrassed by what had been captured on TV, even though he didn't remember doing it. And he was frustrated and angry.

 

See just another case of stuffy, hair-gel TV types not even realizing what harmless disgusting slobs newspaper folks are.

 

I didn't get a chance to see the video, but from the pic, it looks like he's peering right at the window. How could he not know? If the video shows otherwise, I'll happily retract.