re: How can you not be completely embarrassed by that?

first let me say i am not melting over the SE hire and "hope" the team will be "as good" if not "hopefully" better then last years.

i didnt see it, but from the way it has been described here, O sounded like a drunk man babbling at the end of the bar while trying to think up BS generic nonsensical statements to make everyone hear what he thinks they wanted to hear

O would have been better served to take no questions at all, and just say i hired the man i wanted because i think he can do the job for us and have success here, then just walk away from the mic and let SE answer all the questions about what to expect now