Last night as I was listening to the Democratic Convention coverage on ABC radio, they had like a 10 minute interview with the guy who was in charge of the balloon drop. At the time I couldn't believe they were spending time on this, but the guy made it sound like a technical extravaganza.

I was asleep by the time the speech was over and I had read it on the internet anyway. Imagine my surprise when I saw the cursing balloon director on the Drudge Report this morning as his show failed to materialize as planned.

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX THU JULY 29, 2004 23:00:28 ET XXXXX

'WHAT THE F**K ARE YOU GUYS DOING UP THERE'

DNC CONVENTION DIRECTOR DON MISCHER AIRED ON CNN AS KERRY ENDS SPEECH, HEARD WORLDWIDE:

'Go balloons, go balloons! Go balloons! I don't see anything happening. Go balloons! Go balloons! Go balloons! Standby confetti. Keep coming, balloons. More balloons. Bring it- balloons, balloons, balloons! We want balloons, tons of them. Bring them down. Let them all come. No confetti. No confetti yet.

'No confetti. All right, go balloons, go balloons. We need more balloons. All balloons! All balloons! Keep going! Come on, guys, lets move it. Jesus! We need more balloons. I want all balloons to go, goddammit. Go confetti. Go confetti. More confetti. I want more balloons. What's happening to the balloons? We need more balloons.

'We need all of them coming down. Go balloons- balloons? What's happening balloons? There's not enough coming down! All balloons, what the hell! There's nothing falling! What the fuck are you guys doing up there? We want more balloons coming down, more balloons. More balloons. More balloons'...