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I love seeing my name in print! Here's some press clippings from my not too distant past when I was making the rounds for the Late Show, when I launched my website and when I wrote a letter to the editor about crime. Happy reading.

Steubenville Herald Star

Steubenville's own airs on Letterman

Bob Borden goes from mailroom to White House job

Steubenville - Yes, that was indeed Steubenville High School graduate Bob Borden who was made sport of on "The Late Show with David Letterman" Monday night before he was whisked into the wacky world of big league journalism. Borden, who works in the mailroom at the CBS television show, went onto the set during the show and became the show's White House correspondent.
The always sarcastic Letterman told the mailroom guy to "poke around and see what you can find, bring your little mail cart."
He also asked Borden to try to get an interview with President Clinton and then armed him with a press pass, CBS microphone, camcorder, trench coat, a book by longtime White House reporter Sam Donaldson, "and some money for bribes."
After Letterman told the national TV audience that the Steubenville native would be sending back his reports on each Late Show this week, Borden mustered up his response: "Wow."
Asked by the Herald-Star about his pending trip to Washington, the man of very few words said, "I'm very excited." Of being on national TV with one of the world's top entertainers, "It felt great."
The deadpan response was the kind of reaction those who know Borden had expected.
His brother George, said Bob is a shy guy but he does have a dry sense of humor that people can see once they get to know him.
"Bob's not a ham or anything like that, in fact he's just the opposite." George said. "But once you get to know him, he's a seriously funny individual."
"What you see of Bob on TV is really what Bob is like." Said his brother.
Borden applied for a job with the Late Show just for the heck of it, George said. He was just trying to get his foot in the door of the television industry and make use of the TV-radio production degree he earned at Kent State University after graduating from Steubenville High School in 1988.
Monday's appearance was not Borden's first with Letterman. About a month ago, Letterman tried to get him a date in front of the whole TV world - which included his parents, Joyce and Earl Borden of Woodlawn Road.
After watching Bob's national TV debut, George Borden said his parents' reaction was a very Bob-like: "I can't believe it."
Bob went into greater detail about his mother's reaction: "Mom was proud."
"It was funny, and a little shocking to see him on TV. They (The Late Show) were taking advantage of Bob's shy character," said George, who works as coordinator of services at University Press, Franciscan University.
During Monday's show, Letterman asked Borden about the date.
"I was just too scared to do anything," Borden told Letterman.
"Too scared to do anything? Too scared to go out to dinner?"
"To even make a phone call," Borden said.
"Oh my God Bob," Letterman said. "This problem may be a little deeper than we all thought."
The non-date, and all the publicity surrounding it, gave the mailroom guy a chance to sort some mail with his very own name on the envelope.
"I got a lot of letters from various women asking me out," Borden beamed.
How many exactly?
"Ten."