[mrustow]

NYT story today revealed that after Fox called Ohio for Bush, Mellman at Kerry headquarters called ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, et al, asking them not to call Ohio for Bush until Kerry camp gave the go-ahead. That's why the country was denied the facts.

NBC called for Ohio, probably before getting Mellman's call, then refused to call any other states.

Mellman on a panel last night, never shut up, rationalizing how it wasn't really a victory. Did not mention his part in this disgusting scam. (George Washington U., home of "Crossfire.")

Peter Fenn, rich Dem defender of Clinton, also on panel, snickering about Republicans being "Walmart families."

And they want us to reach out? Bigots.

Wow. That's at least three important stories, including one scandal. Do you know of a site that has a story on the panel Mellman was on?

[Barset]

The panel was on C-Span last night. C-Span.org, or cspan.org. should have information. On panel, Lucinda Lake, Mellman, Bernier (Republican,) Peter Fenn. There were two others on panel but Lake, Mellman, Fenn (all Dems) dominated the others.

Questions from audience: a young woman from, I believe she said Prague, got up and asserted that we, U.S., sort of made up the War on Terror after 9/11. Lucinda Lake spent about ten minutes talking about "different constructs" etc. that would "allow" for differences in viewing what we were doing.

I couldn't figure out if Lake was sending signals that she agreed with the woman from Prague, had her (Lake's) own view of the non-war war, or was signalling someone to bring her a Baby Watson cheese cake. Really could not follow her. She and Ed Goas do the Battleground Polls which are usually reliable. She may be a better numbers cruncher than analyst. She seems pleasant but doesn't express her ideas clearly, or more likely, her ideas are too illogical. b.

[Barset]

There's a thread on FR about the NYTimes article. Search for txradioguy as Poster.