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Barack Obama has just begun his Super Tuesday speech–before John McCain has finished his. For a minute or so, there’s an ungainly split-screen and dual audio as the cable networks decide which way to go. CNN and MSNBC cut to Obama; Fox sticks with McCain longer, before switching to Obama.
Ahem. Awk-ward.
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It’s finally Super Tuesday, and the pundits are all abuzz about what the voters will decide to do. You’d expect that. But the pundits are also abuzz about what they will decide to do.
I saw an interesting exchange yesterday on MSNBC, among Dan Abrams, MSNBC political director Chuck Todd, and Newsweek’s Howard Fineman. The three were …
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Other than the Mike Huckabee / Chuck Norris spot and the Hillary Sopranos parody, the two most memorable ads this campaign season are notable for (1) not being TV ads, (2) being for Barack Obama and (3) not coming from the Obama campaign. (I’m not including Obama Girl, if you’re wondering.) The first was the viral Hillary 1984 ad. The …
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Well, I shouldn’t assume, but this is an English-language blog. Sunday morning at 10, though, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will each make their case on what could be their most important Sunday-gab-show appearance before Super Tuesday—on Univision’s Al Punto. From the network’s release:
Univision’s Sunday morning discussion
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I admittedly have been watching a lot of non-news-related TV for work the past few days. But judging by the post-South Carolina, post-Kennedy-endorsement election coverage, it seems worth asking: is the political media in the midst of a post-Iowa-style Obama swoon again?
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Felt guilty enough to go back and watch the Democratic Nevada debate on TiVo. Don’t all thank me at once.
Fortunately, in the interim, my new colleague Michael Scherer has gone ahead and critiqued MSNBC’s handling of the debate. The first half-hour of the debate, in which Tim Russert and Brian Williams focused on meta-issues like …
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Another Supreme Court shoots down another Democrat.
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It appears that steps are finally being taken to dispel the ugly cloud of bigotry that has hung over the Democratic primary. I refer, of course, to the bigotry against short-statured, low-polling progressives who have seen UFOs. A Nevada judge has ruled in favor of Dennis Kucinich, compelling MSNBC to invite him to its Democratic …
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This morning on MSNBC, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski were lamenting what a shame it would be if accusations over playing the race card and the gender card drowned out the issues in the presidential campaign. That’s a big concern over at MSNBC, so big that the network devoted most of its morning to the claims and counterclaims. So …
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I didn’t want to let my colleague Lisa Cullen have to be the last person in the world to analyze the Hillary Clinton Misty Moment in New Hampshire this week. So I have decided to take that honor on myself.
The thing that gets me about all the media analysis of The Moment is that the pundits have treated it like a dichotomy: either she …
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There was a Republican debate on Fox News last night. (Insert how-was-that-different-from-any-other-night joke here.) I watched only part of it, so I don’t have a rundown, but I have been watching (and reading) some of the morning-after analysis, which is not much different from most morning-after analysis of most debates. Much of it has …
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What do the strike-era late-night talk show wars and the election have in common? As I say in my current print Time magazine column, “the analogy between politics and the late-night talk shows breaks down eventually.” But in both arenas over the last week or so, we saw that there were some benefits to dropping …
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People sometimes criticize pundits for behaving as if elections were all about them. But Chris Matthews of MSNBC had a special treat last night: he was told, on his own network, that last night’s upset decision in New Hampshire really was all about him. Air America’s Rachel Maddow told him that posters at Talking Points Memo were citing …
