Midterm madness
The Top 10 Reasons
Republicans can win the midterm elections if a majority of voters believe:
They were helped by the Bush tax cuts.
The Iraq War is making us safer.
Saddam had weapons of mass destruction.
The best way to save Social Security is turn it over to Wall Street.
Global warming is a myth. The best way to fix a problem is to ignore it.
Insurance companies should dictate health care policy.
Outsourcing will make us stronger.
Stem cell research is evil.
Government has no business negotiating lower drug prices.
Whatever is wrong with the country is Bill Clinton’s fault.
Spinning the war, for big bucks.
The Iraq War has been getting terrible reviews lately, so the Pentagon is taking direct action. Despite what you see on your TV screen at home and stories you read from front-line correspondents, Don Rumsfeld will have you know the war is really going quite well, thank you. What we have is a communications problem. So Rumsfeld has turned once again to those talented spinmeisters from the Lincoln Group, awarding them a $6 million contract to see that the media view the war through the same opaque lens Rumsfeld does. PR firms know that most of their press releases are tossed or ignored, but not those of Lincoln (Jefferson, Jackson, maybe even Franklin). All the news, wrapped in greenbacks from Uncle Sam. The going rate in an earlier Lincoln success ranged from $50 to $2,000 per story. As Columbia Journalism Review noted, Lincoln’s contract of $57.6 million for that campaign was more than the annual newsroom budget allotted to most American newsrooms to cover all the news from everywhere for an entire year.
More midterm madness
Rep. Tom Reynolds of NY, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, said his investigators had been looking into perspective Democratic challengers since the summer of 2005. “These candidates have been out there doing things.” Which resulted in NRCC ads slamming Kentucky House candidate John Yarmuth for editorials he wrote years ago for his student newspaper. “They have never seen anything like this before,” crowed Reynolds. “We haven’t even begun to unload this freight train.”
Former Redskin quarterback Heath Shuler, running for Congress as a Democrat in NC, is being attacked in NRCC ads for late payment in back taxes. If Reynolds wants some real dirt on Shuler, he needs to talk to some Redskin fans still angry about a wasted No. l draft pick.
Republicans can win the midterm elections if a majority of voters believe:
They were helped by the Bush tax cuts.
The Iraq War is making us safer.
Saddam had weapons of mass destruction.
The best way to save Social Security is turn it over to Wall Street.
Global warming is a myth. The best way to fix a problem is to ignore it.
Insurance companies should dictate health care policy.
Outsourcing will make us stronger.
Stem cell research is evil.
Government has no business negotiating lower drug prices.
Whatever is wrong with the country is Bill Clinton’s fault.
Spinning the war, for big bucks.
The Iraq War has been getting terrible reviews lately, so the Pentagon is taking direct action. Despite what you see on your TV screen at home and stories you read from front-line correspondents, Don Rumsfeld will have you know the war is really going quite well, thank you. What we have is a communications problem. So Rumsfeld has turned once again to those talented spinmeisters from the Lincoln Group, awarding them a $6 million contract to see that the media view the war through the same opaque lens Rumsfeld does. PR firms know that most of their press releases are tossed or ignored, but not those of Lincoln (Jefferson, Jackson, maybe even Franklin). All the news, wrapped in greenbacks from Uncle Sam. The going rate in an earlier Lincoln success ranged from $50 to $2,000 per story. As Columbia Journalism Review noted, Lincoln’s contract of $57.6 million for that campaign was more than the annual newsroom budget allotted to most American newsrooms to cover all the news from everywhere for an entire year.
More midterm madness
Rep. Tom Reynolds of NY, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, said his investigators had been looking into perspective Democratic challengers since the summer of 2005. “These candidates have been out there doing things.” Which resulted in NRCC ads slamming Kentucky House candidate John Yarmuth for editorials he wrote years ago for his student newspaper. “They have never seen anything like this before,” crowed Reynolds. “We haven’t even begun to unload this freight train.”
Former Redskin quarterback Heath Shuler, running for Congress as a Democrat in NC, is being attacked in NRCC ads for late payment in back taxes. If Reynolds wants some real dirt on Shuler, he needs to talk to some Redskin fans still angry about a wasted No. l draft pick.
posted by Victor Kamber | 1:13 PM
1 Comments:
I just saw you on "Tucker" and I was very pleased that you stopped, went back and didn't let that nasty turd you were debating leave all of his talking points out there, unrefuted.
BUT, you did leave a lot of them out there, I respectfully request that you spend at least one hour on Huffingtonpost.com and mediamatters.org before you go on the air to get boned up on the latest facts and that you tell your colleagues the same. I get so disheartened that the other side always has its talking points ready to spew and more often that not we are not prepared to respond. Before the websites noted above and many others existed, OK. But now the facts are right there, easily accessable and there is no excuse not to review them before going on the air to represent my party.
But I was so glad to see you back up and make your point.
cmh@cmhughesmd.com
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