CNN Grill

On Wednesday evening, the Media Mob bumped into CNN U.S. President Jonathan Klein, who was lounging on the front patio at the CNN Grill in St. Paul, drinking a glass of Diet Coke and waiting for a cheeseburger.

The day before Senator John McCain had canceled an interview with CNN's Larry King. The cancellation was payback of sorts for a hard-nosed interview that Campbell Brown had recently conducted with a McCain spokesperson in which the CNN anchor questioned Sarah Palin's foreign-policy experience.

Did Mr. Klein anticipate any long-term problems with the McCain camp? Mr. Klein downplayed the friction, chalking it up to the run-of-the-mill competing missions of politicians and the journalists who cover them.  read more »

Here's a list of the free specialty cocktails at the CNN Grill:

• Beltway Buzz
• Caucus Cooler
• Liberty Lemonade
• After the Gavel
• Filibuster Fizz
• Bipartisan Bubbly
• The Horse Race