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November 11th, 2007 at 8:02 pm
>>>joke last night at the Hotel Fort Des Moines bar
The Iowa-equivalent of the Georgetown cocktail party?
November 12th, 2007 at 1:50 am
I’m tempted to argue that the last thing you’d want to do the night before the morning after is spend the former in the Hotel Fort Des Moines bar (or sleep on one of their mattresses in the interim, given the price of the rooms). But perhaps–despite my experiences there over the course of a decade–that’s just being opportunistically and gratuitously amused at the memories.
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dry-fish: really, no.
November 12th, 2007 at 2:16 am
Barack should have been more contentious pushing back on Russert re Social Secuity - Russert gets his facts wrong and he repeats errors and the so called liberal media express no outrage about this.
He also should have ridiculed Russert’s Rudy/experience question - He should have said that Rudy has less business experience than Mitt, is a worse Mayor than Bloomberg, and his less military executive experience than McCain. Then he should have pointed to Cheney’s negative Asbestos experience at Halliburton.
By insulting Republicans he would have got more oomph in the news cycle recycle when the push back came - pushing HRC off the front page
November 12th, 2007 at 2:23 am
As an aside - Russert’s mancrush on Rudy has become too annoying - Even Rudy made fun of one of Russert’s debate questions at a Dem debate when he challanged Dems to be as tough as Rudy on x,y, or z.
November 12th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
What needs to happen is that Democratic candidates have to show solidarity and jump down Russert’s throat whenever he asks one of his patented meaningless “tough” questions.
In 2004 the candidates jumped on Koeppel for asking a blatant horserace question. That was a good start but, as I recall, that was also the end of standing up for one another.
Russert, Matthews, etc. have to be roughed up and it has to be a team effort.
There’s really nothing to lose here. Even if a candidate is no longer invited on MTP, Russert looks bad if he has no Democrats on MTP. Climbing all over him in the debate setting would probably cause that egomaniac to explode. Continuing to put up with Russert (Matthews, etc.) is a losing proposition. Why be a guset if being a guest is a potential liability?
Doesn’t anyone remember the Spiro Agnew speech? It created the myth of the “liberal media” and although the journalists of the day hated Agnew they immediately began to pull in their horns. Three years later Nixon won a landslide re-election all the while attacking the press.
November 12th, 2007 at 4:46 pm
“Russert, Matthews, etc. have to be roughed up and it has to be a team effort.”
Disagree - It would just backfire at this point because the psychic battlespace has not been prepared in medialand - Matthews and Russert ask questions that are ridiculous when you read the transcript, but sometimes seem normal when you’re casually watching the tv . Their kind of question has become normal, like it or not -
So while they must be confronted - and things must change - It has to be well thought out and multifaceted and respectable - Before they can be succesfully ridiculed outside of liberal precincts, a mindset shift has to begin.
November 12th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
One thing that can happen and should happen is that candidates should question the questions when they are asked them - Rudy did this all the time when he was Mayor and it worked.
Russert’s questions often sound like they were screened by Rudy the night before and it is fair to point that out.
Russery is not a tough questioner - he just asks questions that happen to put Dems in a tough spot. Since he is himself a Democrat, it’s difficult to challange this