Comments on: You run for President with the press corps you have, not the press corps you wish you had. http://www.thetalentshow.org/2008/07/07/you-run-for-president-with-the-press-corps-you-have-not-the-press-corps-you-wish-you-had/ Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:44:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: spocko http://www.thetalentshow.org/2008/07/07/you-run-for-president-with-the-press-corps-you-have-not-the-press-corps-you-wish-you-had/comment-page-1/#comment-16185 spocko Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:20:26 +0000 http://www.thetalentshow.org/2008/07/07/you-run-for-president-with-the-press-corps-you-have-not-the-press-corps-you-wish-you-had/#comment-16185 Excellent post Greg!. I especially liked this one, "but is so intent on having the presidential campaign unfold with some advertiser-friendly drama that they’ll insist on holding Barack Obama accountable for any statement made by a Democrat?" That is what they love, the X vs. Y story where they can interview both and say, "The truth lies somewhere in the middle." Drives me crazy. They will prop up McCain so that it isn't the blow out that it really should be. Just like they enjoyed the ongoing Obama/Clinton primary battle. X vs. Y on one side! Wheee! I also agree with your other point. We can't just play defensive, in order to keep a narrative in our turf WE need to START the stories. If you have a lead of 3 points you don't play out the clock! You try to score more points before you go into defensive mode. You know people have said to me, "Why don't you work for the Obama campaign if you are so damn smart?" Three reasons. 1) I'm not part of the crowd who do this for a living. They like to hire people who have experience, even if it is experience LOSING. 2) We saw what the right did to bloggers who weren't perfect when Edwards tried to hire a couple 3) Frankly I'd rather fight the right directly than to fight the media AND the right. If I can give the media some stories about the mendacity on the right then they have a nice X vs. Y story to run with. Excellent post Greg!. I especially liked this one, “but is so intent on having the presidential campaign unfold with some advertiser-friendly drama that they’ll insist on holding Barack Obama accountable for any statement made by a Democrat?”

That is what they love, the X vs. Y story where they can interview both and say, “The truth lies somewhere in the middle.” Drives me crazy.
They will prop up McCain so that it isn’t the blow out that it really should be. Just like they enjoyed the ongoing Obama/Clinton primary battle. X vs. Y on one side! Wheee!

I also agree with your other point. We can’t just play defensive, in order to keep a narrative in our turf WE need to START the stories. If you have a lead of 3 points you don’t play out the clock! You try to score more points before you go into defensive mode.

You know people have said to me, “Why don’t you work for the Obama campaign if you are so damn smart?” Three reasons.
1) I’m not part of the crowd who do this for a living. They like to hire people who have experience, even if it is experience LOSING.
2) We saw what the right did to bloggers who weren’t perfect when Edwards tried to hire a couple
3) Frankly I’d rather fight the right directly than to fight the media AND the right. If I can give the media some stories about the mendacity on the right then they have a nice X vs. Y story to run with.

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