On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Joe Hass <hassgoc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 11:24 AM, PGage <pga...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > The point here is not that nobody who believes most or all of the above > can > > be president of the USA ; the point is that while delivering these kinds > of > > red meat lines can get you a lot of attention from an extreme base, if > you > > want to run for president of the country you have to expect to be asked > > about them, and find a way to make them palatable to the mainstream. You > > can't just start crying and get your goons to get the president of Fox > News > > to write a memo to the mean man who asked you about it on TV to say he is > > sorry (oh, wait, I guess you can). > > Last year Sharon Angle effectively refused to talk to anyone who > wasn't on her approved media list, and nearly won. The catch, of > course, is that was a state race versus a national one. Palin tried it > after the Couric disaster, and it's impossible to determine what > factor it played. > > That being said, may I remind everyone of two points: > 1. We are still 498 days away from the US general elections. > 2. IIRC, at this time in 2007, everyone thought we'd have a Rudy > Giuliani/Hilary Clinton matchup. > If Michelle Bachmann is the Republican nominee for President in 2012, and Barak Obama is not the Democratic nominee, then we will really have a surprise. But neither of those conditional hypotheticals will occur. My post was less about Bachmann or Fox News, and more about Chris Wallace, who has tried to portray himself as a credible journalist whose sense of professionalism and fair play required him to leave the liberal mainstream news operations for Fox (simultaneously trying to parlay this supposed credibility into a legitimation of the Fox News operation). This was the context of his (losing) joust with Stewart. His leg spreading to Bachmann shows how thin that lie really is. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
