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Wednesday, Feb 04, 2004
which ones pink?
billmon used 'kerry on' as a post header. i would support kerry if he would adopt kansas' Carry On as his campaign rally song. (do i smell a chance for pyrotechnics?) in fact, i think he should headline the Monsters of Seventies Rock Tour. styx, kansas, boston, bad company and john kerry. i hear hes a menace with a bass in hand. maybe he can do a rippin' number with springsteen or carlos santana. oye como vote for me.
Tuesday, Feb 03, 2004
loose your way
david weinberger has a political blog at corrante entitled loose democracy.
chaotic attractive (dread sighs ignite)
(n)income poops
pot parity
"A British company called GW Pharmaceuticals has developed a sublingual spray called Sativex which contains all the psychoactive chemicals in natural cannabis, and that medicine is likely to be approved in Britain for the treatment of MS within months. The rest of Europe and Canada will probably follow quickly, and it’s quite possible that the US won’t be too far behind."
Monday, Feb 02, 2004
well, at least noones talking about their age or their race
what he said but without words and meaning (and a new interface).
con gas
la agua del dia -- vichy catalan.
Friday, Jan 30, 2004
was that wrong?
CBS News: "Individually we may feel okay about our network, but the cumulative effect for viewers with 24-hour cable coverage is -- it may have been overplayed and, in fact, a disservice to Dean and the viewers."
-- Andrew Heyward, President - CBS News
ABC News: "It's always a danger that we'll use good video too much."
-- David Westin, President - ABC News
CNN: "We've all been wrestling with this. If we had it to do over again, we'd probably pull ourselves back."
-- Princell Hair, General Manager - CNN
Fox News: "It got overplayed a bit, and the public clearly thought that, too, and kept him alive for another round."
-- Roger Ailes, Chairman and CEO - Fox News
Thursday, Jan 29, 2004
trained bares
“About all we interview any more are professional talkers,” says Bob Schieffer, who tries to squeeze informational tidbits from those talkers every Sunday on CBS’s Face the Nation. The professional part, of course, stems from who his guests are, mainly public officials. But it also flows from the teachings of media trainers, a branch of public relations that originated at J. Walter Thompson in the mid-1970s. Media training was largely a dual response to the tough questioning of Mike Wallace and others on 60 Minutes and the needs of the new business-media outlets that called for a constant stream of corporate executives to chat on the air. Soon other p.r. firms established media training practices, sensing a lucrative sideline in coaching people to handle tough questions."
Wednesday, Jan 28, 2004
burning sensation
heres the (acknowledged) problem with wonkette. i dont ever want to think about james carville and histrollwife having sex.nor
do i ever again want to examine the creases in john kerrys forehead for sign of life on mars.
notes from the undergrind
i should check in with abcs The Note more often. today they have a couple of memos written a few months back by outgoing kerry campaign staff to their replacements.
8. Keep up the fight for full engagement. Jordan wasn't wrong about taking on Dean. The more you throw at him the more something might stick. The research folks camped out in Burlington for weeks, and they have hits that are even better than that NRA questionnaire. Howard Dean has never had an unexpressed thought. This should work against him but it seems to be overshadowed by the fact that our campaign has never had an original thought.