The Kicker

Newsweek had a very special lunch today with former presidential candidate, senator, and Law and Order actor Fred Thompson. The topic of the day? Sarah Palin, the soon to be Vice Presidential nominee. Andrew Romano writes up the conversation: …McCain has always said that his VP must be able to assume the Oval Office at […]

Gustav isn’t the only thing causing disruptions in St. Paul. As you’ve no doubt heard, protesters are out in far greater force for the Republicans than they were for the Democrats in Denver. There wasn’t a lot of national press covering the marches, but I did bump into Fox News’s Griff Jenkins, who was wearing […]

Well, considering the knots that Gustav has tied the Republican convention into, what is the St. Paul bound journalist to do? There’s an abbreviated convention schedule. And an abbreviated schedule means there’s even less to cover than there should have been, which maybe wasn’t all that much to begin with. So why not go to […]

Media, covering the convention by recording…other media. Recorded by…me(dia).

The view from the center of the photog scrum during Laura Bush’s sound check at the Xcel Center yesterday evening:

Last week, we pointed to an object lesson, courtesy of The New York Times, in How Not To Mock the Presidential Nominating Conventions. (In a word: unfunnily.) Well, the Gray Lady, ever fair, is at it again for this week’s GOP events, publishing, this morning, its satirical—and I use that word loosely—”Republican Convention Schedule.” Clearly […]

The lede of the LA Times‘s assessment of Gustav’s impact on St. Paul, “Hurricane Gustav dampens mood at GOP convention site”: Hurricane Gustav rained on the Republicans’ parade Sunday, dampening the mood among delegates from states on the Gulf Coast and far away. Ha! Rained on their parade! Dampened their mood! Get it? Because Gustav’s […]

Palin’s favorite meal is moose burgers.

This just in: Jill Burke at KTUU, the NBC affiliate in Anchorage, confirmed that GOP VP Sarah Palin was a sports intern with the station. A background in journalism bodes well for vice presidential candidates: Al Gore was, among other things, an investigative reporter for The Tennessean.

If you were wondering (because I know you were) what the fashion press had to say about Michelle Obama’s floral dress last night, here’s Women’s Wear Daily with some analysis: Michelle Obama gave another nod to New York fashion on Thursday night as Sen. Barack Obama accepted his nomination in Denver. The potential First Lady […]

The NYT’s many arms of coverage at Invesco

No daylight. Not enough chairs. Not enough tables. No wireless. The only televisions to watch the on field action are in the back of the room facing away from the tables. A dozen or so journalists (this one included) are sitting on the just-barely-not-bare-concrete floor. The permanent label on the door outside this field level […]

Some analysts wonder why Obama didn’t mention Martin Luther King Jr. by name

When the requisite post-speech streamers launched, it looked like a quickly blossoming beard of red, white and blue, floating just above the portico of the temple set. But something was amiss—the streamers failed to clear the backdrop, leaving stage right a cobwebby, though patriotic, mess. From where I was standing on a press riser, this […]