The News & Observer published a story last week about how blogs are changing local politics. It’s by Jesse James DeConto (you gotta love his name), and we point it out because it quotes me and mentions our blog. Click here to read it: http://www.newsobserver.com/114/story/538855.html Click Here to discuss and comment on this and other…
Why does Mike Easley do it? Why – with all his communications skills – does he work so hard at not communicating? As Governor, he commands a big microphone. But Mike won’t use the mike. Two recent examples: He spoke out publicly against the Duke lacrosse DA. But it turns out he spoke out last…
It’s an old PR trick: Put out bad news on Friday. Hope it gets lost over the weekend. That’s what the Bush Administration did last Friday with the latest National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq. I can’t fault them. I used the same trick when I worked for Governor Hunt. But we don’t have to fall…
We Democrats are chatty folks. Our presidential candidates launch their campaigns with web-side chats. Hillary sits on the couch for a chat. Then she flies around the country for more intimate chats recorded by forests of cameras. She invites us to join in: “Let the conversation began.” Actually, she and Bill have been having this…
When President Bush met with House Republicans in a closed door session to defend his new troop deployment, he said, “I’m the decision-maker.” (News and Observer; 1-27-07). Only, when it was leaked to the press it sounded a bit like Al Haig charging into the White House press room after President Reagan was wounded and…
It may be a coincidence and not the vaunted Clinton PR machine at work, but since Hillary announced there have been two attacks on John Edwards (see Gary’s post below: The Orange County White House.) and one on Barack Obama in the media. The attack on Edwards went like this: How can he build a…
The most eloquent – and effective – Democratic spokesman today may be a former Marine and Reagan Cabinet member: Jim Webb. If you missed the Virginia Senator’s response to Bush’s State of the Union speech, you can see it on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVXMU43Qhow Webb eviscerated Bush on Iraq and the economy. He hit the perfect tone…
It seemed peculiar: After former Speaker Jim Black had the State House pay one of his political appointees $80,000 to write a ‘history’ of the State House, he refused to make it public. Compared to the other House scandals – Lottery Commissioner Kevin Geddings’ trial, allegations of bribes, illegal lobbying – the ‘curious affair of…
The 2004 election demonstrated the power of the Internet. It’s now the YouTube campaign. The first victim was former Senator George Allen of Virginia. Here’s a hit on John McCain that’s now circulating: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioy90nF2anI By the way, thanks to my son James for the link. At 17, he’s my link to YouTube politics. Click Here…
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