A very different scene

Posted: Monday, July 23, 2007 4:46 PM by Mark Murray

From NBC's Mark Murray
CHARLESTON, SC -- By just looking around here in the press filing compound, we can already tell this is going to be a very different debate. On the stage in the so-called "spin room," we spotted several Google employees lounging on beanbags while blogging -- which isn't a sight the Washington political press corps sees every day.

And there's even a snack room for the press that's been Google-fied: It's filled with tons of candy bins (storing M&Ms, sour patch kids, and gummy worms), a pool table, and tons of coffee. "If I worked at Google, I'd weigh 1,000 pounds," we heard one journalist say while munching on peanut M&Ms.

So far, so good.

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I read somewhere that Google employees rank among the most satisfied in the country because Google offers such a great benefits package. If my employer provided M&Ms and bean bag chairs, I'd be pretty happy, too.

Carrie, Eastern Iowa (Sent Monday, July 23, 2007 5:00 PM)

Is this a debate or a meeting of the H R Puffenstuff reunion team?

jerry/corpus christi texas (Sent Monday, July 23, 2007 5:01 PM)

You see what happens when the people (or people powered companies in this case) start taking back the political process? They might not be the DC cocktail circuit, but the people power movement have Mountain Dew and peanut butter M&Ms (which I will eat over cavier every day of the week and twice on Sunday).

John Doe, The Peanut Gallery (Sent Monday, July 23, 2007 6:44 PM)

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