Sucking Up to Disney’s New Big Cheese

• The corporate shake-up at Disney, which last week installed former Senate Democratic leader George Mitchell as chairman of the board, has profound implications everywhere. “I never imagined I’d be working for George Mitchell,” conservative yakker Michael Graham said Friday during his show on Mouse-owned WMAL radio.

“Especially since you ran Pat Buchanan’s campaign,” quipped fellow host Fred “Gopher” Grandy, a former Republican congressman.

’Tis true, Graham tells us: “I was Pat Buchanan’s South Carolina coordinator in 1992. I was doing stand-up comedy and trying to get out of that, and I happened to have done some comedy for Republican groups. “No Republican consultant would take Pat’s race,” he says.

“My friend Hal Eberle, from the Nixon and Ford White House, got a call from Pat. He told Hal: ‘Find me someone smart enough to do the job and dumb enough to take it.’ “

Graham ended up spending six years as a Republican campaign consultant. He remains friendly with Buchanan: “I like him. He’s a great guy, but he’s no George Mitchell. Did I mention I now love George Mitchell? He’s my boss! A little brown-nosing never hurts.”