CAMP Kerry has become Noah's Ark. Two consultants for everything. While the newies have moved in, the oldies are still in place. Like chief of staff Mary Cahill stays put. Doesn't look nice to have a public beheading. The candidate is angry. Not at the Bushies. Not at his team. Not at his campaign. At himself. With himself. He's blaming himself. It's like he thinks he should've said, "Look, I got shot at. The other guy didn't. End of story. I won't talk about this anymore."
The Republicans are focused. The Democrats are going into therapy.
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More hypocrisy from the left:
ABC Sports star Al Michaels sure likes to put the political back in "political football." So CNN "Crossfire" hosts and Democratic strategists James Carville and Paul Begala want to penalize the apparently Republican-leaning Michaels for unnecessary roughness.
During his play-by-play of the New England Patriots-Indianapolis Colts game in Foxborough, Mass., last week - a special Thursday edition of "Monday Night Football" - Michaels somehow discovered an opportunity to stick it to John Kerry. When co-announcer John Madden marveled at the seesawing of the score - "This is what you call a flip-flop," he said - Michaels retorted: "You're in the right state for that."
By which Michaels meant Massachusetts, the home state of the Democratic presidential nominee, who's constantly being accused by President Bush's campaign team of "flip-flopping" on the issues.
"These announcers are getting to think they're some kind of political commentators or pontificators," Carville told me. "But the football fans watch football to hear about football. If Al Michaels wants to give his political opinions, tell him to come on 'Crossfire.'"
Begala, meanwhile, told me: "I hardly ever watch ['Monday Night Football'] anymore. It's the television equivalent of Sominex. And they have had all these right-wingers on: Dennis Miller, Rush Limbaugh and Al Michaels - and all it does is drive viewers away." rest of story
But it's still okay to collect pay as a political commentator on CNN while actively working on the Kerry campaign, eh, boys? No free speech for you, Al Michaels!