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1. The Kicker

   No, seriously…

   September 26, 2008 09:26 PM

   One half hour in, barely 5-10 minutes on the CRISIS (right?), and zip on foreign policy. A lot on earmarks, though! Continue reading

2. The Kicker

   Live Blogging the Debate

   September 26, 2008 08:57 PM

   9:25- On second thought, I'll live blog with the same format as everyone else. Switching to single posts. 9:20- "Definition of rich"? Saddleback callback! 9:19- What's that classy backdrop? Why, it seems to be the Declaration of Independence! (A... Continue reading

3. The Kicker

   Remember when?

   September 26, 2008 01:14 PM

   The New Republic has compiled short videos highlighting some Obama and McCain career debate moments. Take a look if you can't wait until 9pm EST... Continue reading

4. Campaign Desk

   McCain’s In

   September 26, 2008 11:29 AM

   McCain has just announced that he will be attending tonight's presidential debate in Oxford, Mississippi hosted by Jim Lehrer. Seconds before cable outlets announced the news, I got off the phone with Anne Bell, a spokesperson for McNeil/Lehrer Productions, the... Continue reading

5. The Kicker

   Couric and Palin, Round Two

   September 26, 2008 08:25 AM

   Last night CBS showed Katie Couric asking the spectacularly unbriefed Sarah Palin about her Charlie Gibson-era claim that being able to see Russia from Alaska had something to do with foreign policy credentials. You can watch the clip below. ... Continue reading

6. The Kicker

   Newsweek on The National Enquirer

   September 25, 2008 03:45 PM

   Newsweek has a pretty interesting (although slightly peg-less, given its bare mention of the unmentionable Palin coverage) article on the National Enquirer's post-Rielle, post-Internet role in the media landscape. But this paragraph is just soo huffy: Yet even when... Continue reading

7. Campaign Desk

   Context Isn’t Coastal

   September 25, 2008 10:59 AM

   ’Tis a season of change. Summer shifted into fall. Lehman Brothers shifted from in business to not. And John McCain shifted from ardent de-regulator to Wall Street sheriff. And with this last shift came an evident change in rhetoric.... Continue reading

8. The Kicker

   Eyes on Chicago

   September 25, 2008 10:22 AM

   Michael Miner, the Chicago Reader's longtime media critic has a thoughtful piece today on the dilemma that The Chicago Tribune--under new Zell-tastic ownership--faces in either sticking with their unbroken record of backing Republican presidential candidates or endorsing Obama,... Continue reading

9. Campaign Desk

   McGambit

   September 24, 2008 04:17 PM

   Just minutes ago, John McCain issued one of his campaign’s classic media-cycle-grabbing gambits. He’s announced that, as of tomorrow morning (so there’s still time to get out a digging press release or two), he’ll be “suspending” his campaign to return... Continue reading

10. The Kicker

    Podcasting through the Crisis

    September 23, 2008 12:29 PM

    CJR has praised it before, but the best explainer I’ve seen—scratch that—the best explainer I’ve heard on the how the world’s financial system became mired in bad mortgage debt was a May episode of Chicago Public Radio’s This... Continue reading

11. Campaign Desk

    Shades of Lipstick

    September 22, 2008 12:51 PM

    On October 16, 2006, despite expectations that she’d be absent, Sarah Palin showed up. The occasion was a candidate’s forum sponsored by the Alaska Associations of Elementary and Secondary School Principals, taking place at their annual convention at the Anchorage... Continue reading

12. The Kicker

    Changes at The Politico

    September 22, 2008 09:51 AM

    Today The Politico issued a press release announcing its post election plans. Bottom line? They plan to grow, not shrink, after November 4, with more print editions, at least 15 new staffers, and expanded coverage of the executive... Continue reading

13. Campaign Desk

    York on Kindergarten Sex Ed

    September 18, 2008 01:35 PM

    This week, National Review published an article by Byron York with the simple headline “On Sex-Ed Ad, McCain Is Right.” Too bad that’s not what York’s article proves. You’ll recall that last week the McCain campaign, to... Continue reading

14. The Kicker

    Dude!

    September 18, 2008 01:16 PM

    I missed the Todd Palin broadcast debut, but as Megan and Liz have pointed out, that's no great loss. For a flavor of the interview (which didn't include a single question on Sarah Palin's questionable firing... Continue reading

15. The Kicker

    In the Pool with Biden

    September 18, 2008 12:40 PM

    Ben Smith has posted the full pool report from Joe Biden's visit yesterday to the Football Hall of Fame, written by Perry Bacon of the Washington Post. It's a fun read, as it describes one of those moments... Continue reading

16. The Kicker

    Squawked Out

    September 16, 2008 11:27 AM

    In a year of viral video, here's a new one where independent Presidential candidate Ralph Nader bemoans the lack of press attention that his campaign (and his issues) are getting by somberly commiserating with a parrot, and wondering to what... Continue reading

17. The Kicker

    Lockdown

    September 15, 2008 04:34 PM

    Politico's Jonathan Martin describes the trials of the Palin press: Since being selected a John McCain's running mate on Aug. 29, Sarah Palin has yet to hold a single news conference or take any questions from reporters beyond... Continue reading

18. The Kicker

    What the campaigns think “Women Want”

    September 15, 2008 02:35 PM

    This morning, The New York Times’s Kate Zernike turns in a sillily even-handed paint-by-the-numbers story (“Both Sides Seeking to Be What Women Want”) on the Obama and McCain campaign’s outreach to women. Both campaigns would like to have the... Continue reading

19. The Kicker

    Profiles in Courage. Or not.

    September 15, 2008 11:08 AM

    Wall Street brinkmanship. It’s the metaphor that journalists and scotch-swilling brokers use to transubstantiate dollars and cents into bullets and bluster. So this morning, making my way through The New York Times excellent crisis coverage, it shouldn’t have been too... Continue reading

20. The Kicker

    “hack theater critics”

    September 12, 2008 04:56 PM

    Interesting thought from Zephyr Teachout, one time Dean campaign web guru, current techPresident blogger: ...post-modern political reporters and bloggers act as hack theater critics, judging performances not by how they as individuals respond, but by how they believe... Continue reading

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