Last week, I wrote a piece bemoaning the political ramifications of my own email inbox, where BlackBerry politics happens. Some readers noted that it might be nice to know more about the silly rapid-fire give and take that takes place behind the scenes, as campaigns and parties try to spin reporters via mass email.
So herewith is …
In true Romney-esque fashion, McCain campaign manager, Rick Davis, has posted a PowerPoint laying out the campaign’s strategy for winning. It could not come at a better time, as concerns among some Republicans about the still-prepping state of the campaign continue to grab ink. Just today, both William Kristol and Robert Novak have …
See any similarities between this and this (or this)?
Maybe it was unintentional. Yeah. Sure it was.
ALSO: A tweaked slogan and borrowed logo design will only go so far. By the Republican convention, McCain will need to figure out how to read better off a teleprompter, lest he fall flat in the wake of Obama’s acceptance speech. For …
The first official, on the record call for a joint town hall came around May 10, from Mark McKinnon, McCain’s exiting media man, who said that the campaign was considering asking for them. “The town hall meeting is John’s best format,” McKinnon said. “He’s a natural campaigner up close with the public. That would test Obama’s …
David Brooks introduced a wonderful phrase Sunday, in the round table discussion at the end of ABC’s “This Week.” The conversation had turned to John McCain’s embarrassing flub last week, when he falsely said the U.S. had “drawn down” troop levels in Iraq to pre-surge levels. Afterwards, the McCain campaign tried to get …
Ends and beginnings bring out the best in political writers. Last night produced two pearls. Ron Fournier, the AP’s reigning master, comes through with this obit of the Clinton campaign. And Michael Powell gets his second person reporter voice into a narrative front page Obama profile in the New York Times. Both are worth the read.
So what do you think about that green background for McCain’s speech? What about his claim that Barack Obama has never taken the hard step to challenge his own party?
My read: The McCain speech was better written than it was delivered. But it also laid out the battle lines for the summer. The refrain was “That’s not change we can …
The Drudge siren is whirring, and the Associated Press is reporting: Barack Obama has done it. The primaries are over. Hillary Clinton’s 2008 dreams are dead! Long live her 2008 dreams! More importantly, the endless national saga of recurring CNN election night panels, with all those wall screens and too many laptops, is nearly over. …
Vanity Fair drops its biting profile of Bill Clinton just as the Clinton family dynasty hits its nadir. But it’s still well worth the read, filled with blind quotes and scenes of Clinton’s high-flying life, consorting with billionaire playboys (called “bachelors”) and their barely-legal entourages, summaries of Bill’s recent adventures …
My new story from the next issue of the magazine is here. Comment away. . .
One day, perhaps, some journalism school program will create a quarterly academic journal focused completely on the many ways that Matt Drudge continues to mess with the heads of the Fourth Estate. I have written on this a couple times before, here and here. So has everyone else.
But since there are not yet any tenured Professors of …
STOCKTON, Calif.–At a press avail here Thursday afternoon, McCain called Pastor John Hagee’s ideas about Adolf Hitler doing the will of God “crazy and unacceptable.” He continued: “My church I attend is North Phoenix Baptist Church. My pastor and spiritual guide is Pastor Dan Yeary. I’ve never been to Pastor Hagee’s church or Pastor …
For months, John McCain has been taking flak for being endorsed by Rev. John Hagee, a controversial Texas pastor. But he has repeatedly resisted calls to reject the endorsement, saying he did not share Hagee’s more controversial views, and repudiated them. But he also argued that he did not have to agree with all the views of those who …
