TPM Reader VS reports in from Massachusetts …
I was at the debate last night. The perspective must be very different when one is sitting in the audience from when watching on TV/computer. Despite all the reported “tie” (and partisan claims of victory), my perspective was very different. I thought it was an absolutely crushing defeat for Brown and only the Boston Herald spin is preventing the ensuing disaster.
Let me explain what I saw. Since everyone else has seen it by now, the references should be obvious.
It must be annoying to have a campaign ‘tracker’ following and videotaping your every move. Then again, you don’t have to run for Senate. But word to the wise. Don’t shove a tracker and then lie about it by saying he shoved you first when the guy’s friggin’ videotaping the whole thing and there’s a reporter there watching too. Read More
Tucker Carlson: “You are seeing now the press, which contains many reflexive defenders of Obama — many throne sniffers who instinctively suck up to power — you are seeing them try to dismiss this as old news.”
Carl Franzen introduces us to the MegaDroid, a simulatation of 300,000 zombie Android smartphones running simultaneously that allows app makers and others to test out their products before launch.
You’re seeing lots of debate previews and ‘what to watch fors’. We have a new take on the old genre: What to watch for in terms of actual issues of substance. Go figure.
If you never thought you’d get a chance to hear Sean Hannity impersonating Al Gore impersonating a black preacher to make a point about how Barack Obama talks too black, well your moment has finally arrived.
The job of presenting the Romney high command with the latest polling data each day must be as fun lately as being a food taster in ancient Rome: Read More
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Presidential campaigns are festivals of pseudo-events. The main dialogue comes in the form of highly scripted and tested 30 second TV ads. Those are buttressed by stage managed rallies. And most of the momentum builds toward conventions which are now professionally staged partisan informercials.
Don’t get me wrong. Politics has always been deeply, highly staged. It’s always been thus. And if you’re into politics that’s part of what you love. The confetti doesn’t come falling down by accident. Who would think it would? But the big October debates remain the one big exception. Read More
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