October 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment
The people who are creating the “issue” messaging for Shays and Himes are dredging into the 80’s for inpsiration. ANd that’s not a good thing. Here we are in 2008, and we’ve got all sorts of congressional level issues that really warrant some good old fashioned debate and discussion. Instead we are served retread messaging.
Take for instance, the Shays spin on Himes to the Advocate: Shays characterized Himes, a Greenwich resident, as a tax-and-spend Democrat who he said would roll back the Bush tax cuts, raise the levy on dividends and restore the marriage penalty.
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I have two lamps from IKEA that don’t work anymore. They are about 10 years old, a short lifespan for a lamp. In an ideal world, I’d take them to the local lamp repair shop, to get rewired or whatever it takes to get them shining again. But the world is not ideal enough to support the economy of the lamp repair shop these days because at some point not so long ago it became cheaper to replace the broken lamps with new lamps. Which is an irony that IKEA itself mocked with one of their commercials with new is better.
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Tina Fey was the best thing about SNL when she was a cast member, and she reminds us why each week she reprises her role as Sarah Palin, who is probably the best thing to happen to SNL in a long time.
Peggy Noonan was unexpectedly (to me at least) complimentary of Tina Fey this week
Tina Fey’s Sarah Palin has become, in that old phrase, a national sensation, and Ms. Fey is becoming, with her show “30 Rock,” and now the Palin impression, one of the great comic figures of her generation. Her work with Amy Poehler (as Katie Couric) in last weekend’s spoof on “Saturday Night Live” was so astoundingly good—the hand gestures, the vocal tone and spirit—that it captured some of the actual heart of the Palin story. …
To spoof someone well takes talent, but to utterly nail a political figure while not brutalizing him takes a real gift, and amounts almost to a public service. …
Tough to add much to the coverage and commentary available on cable and online, but the emerging themes appear to be the McCain campaign going negative and sending Palin to rally the base rather than talk to the media. Peggy Noonan emphasized her concern about the tone and direction of the campaign on Meet the Press this morning, an opinion she articulated this week in the editorial space on The Wall Street Journal’s website.
We saw this week, too, a turn in the McCain campaign’s response to criticisms of Mrs. Palin. I find obnoxious the political game in which if you expressed doubts about the vice presidential nominee, or criticized her, you were treated as if you were knocking the real America—small towns, sound values. “It’s time that normal Joe Six-Pack American is finally represented in the position of vice presidency,” Mrs. Palin told talk-show host Hugh Hewitt. This left me trying to imagine Abe Lincoln saying he represents “backwoods types,” or FDR announcing that the fading New York aristocracy deserves another moment in the sun. I’m not sure the McCain campaign is aware of it—it’s possible they are—but this is subtly divisive. As for the dismissal of conservative critics of Mrs. Palin as “Georgetown cocktail party types” (that was Mr. McCain), well, my goodness. That is the authentic sound of the aggression, and phony populism, of the Bush White House. Good move. That ended well.
Peggy Noonan was Ronald Reagan’s speechwriter and is a member of the editorial board of the WSJ.
[Editorial note: Sorry for the delay in getting this up. There is something funky w/ the embed link provided by the NBC site, took awhile to get it to work…]
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October 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Normally I don’t follow baseball all that closely. But there’s some interesting story lines that have been drawing me in. The potential match up of Cubs and Red Sox in the World Series was intriguing. But the Cubs were swept out of post season last night by the LA Dodgers. The Joe Torre led Dodgers.
I’m hoping Torre lands a world series this year. It would be a nice My Way, New Yorker touch to the baseball season.
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