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1. The Kicker

   Take my newspaper… Please!

   September 12, 2008 01:59 PM

   The Observer’s John Kolbin has a funny rundown of an internal rah-rah meeting hosted by Arthur Sulzberger Jr. for employees of The New York Times. Take this exchange: A man asked, very directly, why the Company doesn't sell... Continue reading

2. Campaign Desk

   Palin Minds The Gaffes

   September 12, 2008 01:25 PM

   So far, the reaction to Sarah and Charlie’s big night seems to be that she didn’t do anything to embarrass herself. In short, no gaffes. A gaffe, of course, is defined as an unintentional, embarrassing blunder—usually a quick, cringe-inducing, irrevocable... Continue reading

3. The Kicker

   Gibson’s first good question

   September 11, 2008 05:58 PM

   Are you ready for a three day IV drip of Palin interviews? In this early excerpt on ABC's website, Charlie Gibson asks Palin to get specific on what admitting Georgia into NATO would mean, beyond bluster. The Governor... Continue reading

4. The Kicker

   The World Really is This Strange

   September 11, 2008 05:02 PM

   Quick: What's the connection between the presidential election and yesterday’s guilty pleas by con-man Raffaello Follieri (a.k.a. Anne Hathaway’s ex), besides that they're both easy cable news fodder. Well, The Nation has done the journalistic spade work, and <a href=http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080929/berman_ames... Continue reading

5. The Kicker

   Coming to a Maureen Dowd column near you!

   September 11, 2008 03:29 PM

   The Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder and The Washington Post’s Anne Kornblut round up Joe Biden and the Palins’ Secret Service code names. Absolute Dowd bait. Joe = Celtic Sarah = Denali Todd = Driller No word... Continue reading

6. Campaign Desk

   Bridge Fact Checks Go Nowhere

   September 11, 2008 03:12 PM

   Is it naïve to think that if a candidate for national office is caught lying by the press, she might be forced, at a minimum, to stop repeating the lie? Or to explain herself? Or to apologize? It shouldn’t be.... Continue reading

7. The Kicker

   Welcome back, Len!

   September 11, 2008 02:37 PM

   MediaBistro brings us the news that Len Downie, who famously abstained from voting while he served as executive editor of The Washington Post, registered with the D.C. Board of Elections the very day he stepped down. Now, Len,... Continue reading

8. The Kicker

   Bridging Schizophrenia

   September 9, 2008 02:42 PM

   Today, in a Wall Street Journal piece on Hillary Clinton’s appearance in Florida on behalf of Obama, Christopher Cooper and Amy Chozick drop these grafs on a new McCain ad: On Monday, the McCain campaign unveiled a... Continue reading

9. The Kicker

   Hey Kristol: Peretz on Palin is nothing special

   September 8, 2008 04:03 PM

   In his New York Times column today, Bill Kristol tries to make the case that the reason that “the media” doesn’t like Sarah Palin is that McCain picked her “without, so to speak, consulting them.” The logic... Continue reading

10. Campaign Desk

    Talking Shop: John Harris

    September 8, 2008 01:35 PM

    On Thursday afternoon, I visited The Politco's RNC workspace, a long carpeted convention ballroom they shared with the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Half a dozen near-empty boxes of coffee sat on a bare buffet table, and 15 or so journalists... Continue reading

11. Campaign Desk

    The Fast and the Furious

    September 5, 2008 04:20 PM

    ST. PAUL - At around 8:30 on Wednesday night, as the teetotaling Mike Huckabee addressed the Republican National Convention on an overhead television, several members of the Politicker staff sat in a bar booth next to a five-foot fish tank,... Continue reading

12. The Kicker

    That September 11, 2001 Video

    September 5, 2008 12:09 AM

    As I mentioned, I watched tonight on PBS, which, when showing the pre-produced rah-rah bio videos was diligent about flagging them with the words “Republican Party Video.” Well, tonight, as the RNC rolled a terrorism montage, the NewsHour inserted the... Continue reading

13. The Kicker

    Palin Passes on PBS

    September 4, 2008 11:21 PM

    The PBS camera crew getting footage on the floor as McCain and Palin worked the crowd following McCain's nomination speech did their best to get the so far interview-shy Sarah Palin to say a few words, holding out the microphone... Continue reading

14. The Kicker

    Steady goes the NewsHour

    September 4, 2008 10:03 PM

    I’m watching the convention coverage as served up by my old colleagues at the NewsHour on PBS, and I swear it’s an alternate universe. No posturing by television stars crowding out the happenings on the floor. It’s not hard to... Continue reading

15. The Kicker

    Rrr-oww!

    September 4, 2008 08:50 PM

    Wow. Ben Smith was right to flag this clip. Do yourself a favor and watch Chris Matthews and Pat Buchanan give each other lessons on sexism on MSNBC's St. Paul set earlier today. Continue reading

16. Campaign Desk

    The View From Abroad

    September 4, 2008 09:50 AM

    In 2004, when the Republicans and Democrats held their conventions in New York and Boston, the events were an easy train ride away for any reporter working along the East Coast megalopolis. But to get to Denver or St.... Continue reading

17. The Kicker

    Only at a convention

    September 3, 2008 11:48 AM

    Here was the partial make-up of a happy post-convention table last night at the St. Paul Grill, just a block outside the Xcel Center security perimeter: E.J. Dionne. Jonathan Alter. Frank Luntz. Harold Meyerson. Ron Silver. And Montell Williams. Only... Continue reading

18. The Kicker

    Off Message

    September 2, 2008 08:57 PM

    Earlier tonight, things finally got underway at the post-Gustav RNC. As the honor guard made its way to the stage, CNN took the live feed, but Fox did not. So while the auditorium stood at attention, Shepard Smith kept talking.... Continue reading

19. The Kicker

    Top reads from the USC/Politico panel

    September 2, 2008 08:02 PM

    Today at a USC/Politico panel, the luminaries were asked by Paul Sherman of Potomac Tech Wire what their first three political reads were each day. Some offered more than three bookmarks—because what are panels for, if not logorrhea—but here... Continue reading

20. Campaign Desk

    A Change Election

    September 2, 2008 07:56 PM

    It’s so obvious to point out that so-called new media has made this an unprecedented election that it’s actually possible to think that it isn’t pointed out enough. This afternoon, the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School co-hosted a... Continue reading

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