You've done your job, now get out of here

"Late Thursday, Miller and his wife were removed from the list of dignitaries who would be sitting in the first family’s box during the president’s acceptance speech later in the evening." -MSNBC

I guess maybe someone told Laura that "if you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas."
They had a typically candid and honest explanation for the change:

"Scott Stanzel, a spokesman for the Bush campaign, said Miller was not in the box because the campaign had scheduled him to do too many television interviews.

There was no explanation, however, for why Miller would be giving multiple interviews during Bush’s acceptance speech, or what channels would snub the president in favor of Miller. Nor was it made clear why Miller’s wife also was not allowed to take her place in the president’s box 24 hours after his deeply personal denunciation of his own party’s nominee."

Poor Zell. I hope he didn't think they were really going to be his friends.

Update: From the Washington Post: "Everyone read the speech in advance and approved it," said one prominent GOP lobbyist working closely with the Bush-Cheney campaign on the staging and message for the convention." Though it does appear that challenging Chris Matthews to a duel was Zell's own ad-lib. And for those keeping score, paragon-of-virtue (and exposer of a undercover CIA non-proliferation agent) Robert Novak said "there was nothing non-factual" in Zell's tirade. (The keynote speech. I don't know what Novak thought about the duel.)