Posted on 09/01/2008 10:56:57 PM PDT by nickcarraway
THE CNN ANGLE
CNN staffers on the floor of the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul were buoyant Sunday afternoon after the mid-afternoon announcement that the Republican convention was being revamped and adjusted in tone because of looming Hurricane Gustav.
One cameraman with the all news network moved his camera and positioned it behind the Louisiana delegation's signage, which from the angle included a shot of the RNC podium, when a colleague asked why he'd moved from his original spot, the CNNer said, "A press guy I know from Obama in Denver suggested it might be a good shot."
Within ten minutes three other remote cameras and seven still photographers were taking shots from the same location.
DIRTY TOOLS
As Obama operatives scour records in Alaska for dirt on Gov. Sarah Palin, they are also seeking embarrassing materials about her husband. And it isn't just the Obama campaign. Several left-wing groups with ties to MoveOn.org have used their network to offer as to $5,000 for damaging employment or personal information about him.
Meanwhile, the Obama campaign has asked the DNC to coordinate surrogates that appear on camera to attack Gov. Palin. "Last Friday, the Democrat women they put all looked old and tired, nothing like what folks were seeing from Palin," says an Obama media adviser. "It was like, 'we don't have any good-looking younger representatives to put up?'"
GLOVES OFF
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney may be putting on a brave face for the cameras after losing out to Gov. Sarah Palin for the veepship, but his ever-loyal cadre of aides and consultants and conservative media types continue to work for him.
Almost every critical remark made about Palin on a recent briefing call about her selection came from political consultants with ties to Romney. Those comments were planted, says one, because they knew that reporters would be on the call.
PRACTICE AND POLISH
Sen. Barack Obama's pitch perfect response regarding the announcement of an impending birth in the Palin family ("my mother had me when she was 18") was not without a series of edits and rehearsals, according to some Obama insiders.
"For tough questions we know he will get to questions we plant with reporters that we want asked, [senior campaign staff] will rehearse [Obama's] answer with him."
The goal: to get his inflection and tone, as well as the content, just right.
"After he flubbed the hypothetical question about his own daughter's pregnancy, the campaign has worked with him to avoid what appear to be insensitive or unthoughtful answers," says an Obama Senate staffer.
This would be a good time for someone to post the 'our women' vs. 'their women' collage, with Palin added for good effect. And of course the answer is they don't have any good-looking younger women to put up, unless they want to put up a bimbo.
Ok, I could easily see them trying to do that.
How about a nice hit on the convicted criminal Soros.
0bama 1st to lose all 57 states.
Mitt is class all the way.
The part that bothers me about this piece is that the CNN cameramen, and others, are taking suggestions from Obama’s campaign on how to film Republicans.
You can rest assured it will be the absolute worst angle and profile.
I still remember the 20/20 piece where the lady in Wisconsin pieced video clips of how Bush was covered in 1992. ABC showed the better photos, and then the ones selected by the editor of the NY Times and elsewhere. Then they shrugged and went back to fawning over Clinton.
Thanks for posting that.
That is just what I was hoping Romney’s views would be.
That is: lend his voice to help the party, but go have a better life where there aren’t so many Republicans dumping on his religion and his political views.
I think he has too many talents and opportunities to waste any more time trying to fight a cause without adequate support.
He could be the president of a university, the DEO of a large corporation, or he could continue being a venture capitalist.
I wish he would set up a foundation and raise money for it to support conservative causes in the country.
I believe they were referring to the critical comments at this particular briefing call, not all of the negative comments since Friday.
When I came home from work friday, I asked my wife if she had heard about the veep pick. She said she had, but thought it was a bad pick because “she looks kind of wild”. I was stunned until I asked where she saw the news. She said that they broke in during Guiding Light on....cBS. We fixed that by doing a search on the net for some different shots of Sarahcuda.
I watched opening day of our convention on CSPAN, everyone else busy covering rain puddles.
The picture of our beautiful flag waving in the background was beautiful.
Every moment of watching that flag said something to my heart!
Proud to be American and proud to be republican.
Sigh. That's his _public_ face.
so the liberals and the media are now using the tactic of dived and conquer
they’ll spread rumours and lies so they’ll be friction in out conservative circle
yet another example of media doing ObAMA’S WORK
When the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor did we give up?
Of course it is, and we're the only ones who can let it happen, so we just need to REFUSE to play their game.
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