The Man Who Made Kathie Lee Cry

Labor Gadfly Charles Kernaghan Buzzes In

By Lynne Duke
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, July 31, 2005; Page D01

Really, it's inappropriate to be here, at a tony Capitol Hill restaurant for lunch. The guest, you see, doesn't eat lunch. Charles Kernaghan usually is too driven, too obsessed with his crusades to get bogged down with food (except a late-night dinner, his main meal of the day.) And this power-lunching thing has got him on the wrong side of the fence. Usually he's shouting at the powerful, not dining among them; usually he's shaming them, even secretly videotaping their factories for his various exposés.