So that would make that comment about "one reporter who would be very annoyed with me," um, a lie?

The air went out of the room when Jones admitted she had written a column for Glamour magazine.

More and more surreal.

Yours truly wrapped up this memorable/useless press conference with what seemed to me to be an obvious question:

"If, on your show, you have a guest appear and there's an obvious question to be asked from that person sitting right in front of you and that person refuses to discuss it — goes off in another direction, begs off — how will you handle it?"

"I hope to handle it with the same sort of gentleness that you've handled me," Jones said — by far her best answer of the hour.

It's that sort of wit that's not in evidence on her show.

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