Shoot, Ready, Aim
April 28, 2008
Anxiety 101: If you’re a reporter, and you have a story that might put fire to sleep - there are tricks that can be used in order to spice up your piece. [Journalistic integrity]
Each journalist uses different techniques - some fair, others not so much. In the case of a Roll Call piece that ran today, we’ll let you decide if reporter John Stanton took “out of context” liberties in an attempt to spice his piece. [$ubscription]
From the Politico’s Huddle:
COORDINATED ATTACK: Roll Call’s John Stanton sees Republicans in the House and the Senate making some gains by synchronizing their messages on gas prices.
…‘House Republican leaders kicked off the last week with the ‘Pelosi Premium’ message, seeking to link Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) and her fellow Democrats to spiking gas prices. Unlike many similar efforts cooked up by House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) that have gone unconnected to the Senate, the upper chamber’s GOP leadership jumped on board. . . .
…Says Michael Steel, with a firearm metaphor he may live to regret: ‘Particularly in a presidential year, when it’s very hard to drive a message from Capitol Hill, we naturally improve our chances of the American people hearing us if we’re all rolling in the same direction … we do our best work when our guns are pointed in the same direction.’
If you’re a reporter looking to fill the inbox of the press flack interviewed in your story, the best way to accomplish that is to casually toss in an ellipsis right in the middle of that person’s quote. Flacks love the ellipsis. It always does them right.
Ellipsis (plural ellipses; from Greek ἔλλειψις ‘omission’) in printing and writing refers to a mark or series of marks that usually indicate an intentional omission of a word or a phrase from the original text.
It’ll be forever unclear as to what this Republican flack actually said, but that’s not important - Roll Call editors already got exactly what they wanted out of an otherwise boring story. I’m sure they also got a cheerful phone call from Mr. Steel earlier this morning.
Google teams with GOP
February 15, 2008
Google Inc., YouTube Combining Forces with GOP to Create Tech-Savvy Convention
FamousDC Poll
February 11, 2008
HYPER HILL [you email ‘em, we link ‘em]
February 6, 2008
Celebrity Real Estate Losers [CRASHED]
Nolan Ryan to be Texas Rangers president [5,714 Ks]
Super Tuesday Winners and Losers [The Fix]
McCain/Huck ticket [inevitable?]
Mellencamp asks McCain to stop using tunes [fair use]
Watch your speed in MD [bacon]
Big Announcement at WaPo tomorrow? [fishbowlDC]
Euros accepted in NYC [your money is good here]
Gasoline prices could….drop? [50 cents by spring]
Climate-control bill could move quickly [what the hell is a carbon credit?]
Surfing Cats [feline fun]
Extreme Mortman: No One Reads the Internet [Al Gore disagrees]
Worst Headline of the day? [sad]
JoMa wants to call it the Chesapeake Primary [Crabcakes and Politics]
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Nancy, can you hear me now?
February 4, 2008
Is Al Green on hold with Rahm, or does he just not care that Queen Nancy’s house rules clearly state, “refrain from using electronic equipment, including cellular phones or lap top computers, on the floor?”
Watch the video below and look for Green’s Bluetooth device in his ear…
With big business making quick friends with Nancy, it comes as little surprise that Nancy probably won’t reprimand Green’s gaffe. It’s also interesting to note that a certain cell phone carrier has already given Green $3K this cycle.
Democrats promised change – but as the American electorate has quickly found out, it’s business as usual back in DC.
A Presidential shine
January 29, 2008
President Bush, gives Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Tex.) a quick shine before his SOTU address. (By Rich Lipski — The Washington Post)
Kimora Primary
January 27, 2008
Politico: Kimora Lee Simmons Endorses Hillary Clinton
Hotline: The Highly Coveted Kimora Lee Simmons Endorsement
Sad
January 18, 2008
Timing is everything
January 14, 2008
The art of the well-timed sports pic. (Top 30)
Blind Item
January 11, 2008
Which conservative blogger (and Red State regular) is rumored to be signing on with a surging WH 08 campaign?
Nice try…
January 9, 2008
But did they really think this would work?
Union-backed jokes?
January 2, 2008
