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CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK
Talk with WOKQ Radio's Mark Ericson
Aired October 28, 2002 - 05:50 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Yes, there are actually fans of the sniper task force. You know, Police Chief Charles Moose, he has his fans. He even has a Web site in his own name.
Joining us to talk about that and a few other things are Mark Ericson and Danielle Carrier, the WOKQ waking crew in New Hampshire.
Good morning.
MARK ERICSON, WOKQ RADIO HOST: Good morning, Carol.
DANIELLE CARRIER, WOKQ RADIO HOST: Good morning.
COSTELLO: This Web site wasn't created by Chief Moose, but by fans of Chief Moose, I understand.
ERICSON: By fans of Chief Moose. Some of our listeners turned us onto this thing. It's on the World Wide Web at chiefmoose.com, as you may well imagine.
CARRIER: Isn't it...
COSTELLO: That is so strange. I have Chad here and he's looking at the various things on this Web site. What do we...
CARRIER: Don't you love his little antlers?
CHAD MYERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, they sold 102 T-shirts already.
CARRIER: I know.
ERICSON: We've got, we found the guys behind this. It's a combination of nine guys who are Web folks for various companies and they're from all around the world. The guy who's handling the U.S. side of this is a 22-year-old writer from Baltimore, Maryland. But some of the people involved in this are in Australia, Canada and the U.K. And I'm sure if Chief Moose had had his druthers, he'd rather not be getting all the notoriety that he is getting. But he is getting notoriety. He was the face of this situation.
CARRIER: He's so cute.
ERICSON: And now he's got some fans.
COSTELLO: That is so -- I just can't believe they're selling Chief -- and they are actually selling Chief Moose T-shirts. CARRIER: Yes.
ERICSON: They're selling Chief Moose T-shirts. The Web site indicates that there is a victim's fund and that all proceeds are going to go to that fund.
COSTELLO: Oh, well, that's nice. So they're just not, you know...
ERICSON: Making a buck, no.
CARRIER: No, thank god.
ERICSON: No, it's a non-profit operation.
CARRIER: Yes.
COSTELLO: Well, that's good. And, you know, it's good for the police to get a little pat on the back because they felt under enormous pressure during this thing.
CARRIER: Oh, absolutely.
ERICSON: Well, and I think probably Chief Moose had one of the toughest jobs in the world having to face reporters a couple of times a day for the course of the few weeks.
COSTELLO: Yes, and sometimes those reporters weren't very nice, were they?
CARRIER: No.
COSTELLO: Hey, let's talk about the New Hampshire Senate race before I have to let you guys go, because it's getting extremely close now.
ERICSON: It's still too close to call. The one thing that you've got to keep in mind is that Jeanne Shaheen, our governor, ran in the primaries unopposed and Mr. Sununu did not, and therefore Jeanne Shaheen has quite a war chest of cash built up and the media advertising blitz -- as a matter of fact, we're talking to our listeners this morning about whether or not all this advertising is becoming a huge turn off to them -- but there's a huge advertising blitz taking place now.
CARRIER: It's just getting funny.
COSTELLO: It's getting funny? Why do you say that?
CARRIER: It is getting funny. Because they're using themes now. They're doing Halloween themed commercials, you know, like, oooh, Sununu, oooh, Shaheen. It's absolutely hilarious. I mean at first you were getting hit at all different angles so at first it was just too much. But now it's just funny.
COSTELLO: Oh, that's crazy. How many times has President Bush been through your state to campaign?
ERICSON: He, with everything else going on in the world, he's only made it through a couple of times. His family home is just over the New Hampshire border in Kennebunkport and when he has a chance to visit, he will usually do a little bit of stumping either in the State of New Hampshire or in the State of Maine. He was up in Bangor last week.
COSTELLO: Yes.
OK, you guys. Thank you very much. We have to let you go.
ERICSON: Have a good day, Carol.
COSTELLO: It was a lot of fun this morning.
MYERS: Thanks, guys.
COSTELLO: Oh, Chad, they're nice, aren't they?
MYERS: They are.
COSTELLO: Hey, continue to look through that Web site. See if anything else is interesting. I'm ordering you around.
MYERS: No, that's OK.
COSTELLO: Just tell me to be quiet.
MYERS: No, you haven't ordered anybody around for seven days.
COSTELLO: No, exactly. I have Chad back to kick around now.
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