 The following day, Parker appeared as the chicken outside the Detroit Economic Club, where Bush was giving a Labor Day speech.The Chicken did not speak, but was accompanied by O'Meara, who called himself Colonel James Baker III and acted as his spokesperson, "translating" the chicken sounds that Parker would make.Their publicity efforts were eventually picked up by the national news media and included an "ABC World News Tonight" story interviewing the pair on a golf course in the Upper Peninsula.