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Every conservative Republican politician in the country has learned the Gingrich 'lesson', which is that you should limit your televised contact with the 'mainstream' press as much as possible, otherwise they will turn you into the second coming of Ivan the Terrible. Delay most of all has learned this lesson. As a result, this article is just wishful thinking on the part of some liberal reporter.

There's a huge difference between the "successful" personal attacks against Newt in the 90's and a possible orchastrated RAT/Media attack against DeLay today. Newt's political foil was a President backed by the media mussle the office commands.

Political spats between DeLay and Pelosi or Lott and Daschle won't even make it on the Leno or Letterman show much less into the political mix.

The only way the RATS are going to be able to "personalize" politics is to take on President Bush which is a proven losing strategery.

The RAT party is currently a cluster [blank] and it doesn't look like they will find a "message" anytime soon.

Every conservative Republican politician in the country has learned the Gingrich 'lesson', which is that you should limit your televised contact with the 'mainstream' press as much as possible, otherwise they will turn you into the second coming of Ivan the Terrible

Delay has always been interested in calling the shots.. not promoting them. He has always had people front for him.

There is one tiny little exception that the main stream press is not seeing. Shawn Hannity's radio now reaches over 10 million different people per week. The entire ABC TV Network of all prime time shows reaches 10.7 million different people per week.

Think a moment. Delay could go on Hannity and reach far more people than he could going on 20/20. How do you think Delay would be treated on Hannity as opposed to say... Nancy Pelosi?

Rush is still king of the hill with well over 14 million different people listening to him. But Rush rarely does interview shows. Shawn does them a lot.

Rush reaches more people than CBS. When a third conservative show goes over 13 million, the effects of the 3 so called major networks will be matched in reaching people.

As Fox continues to pull ahead things will gradually change in TV news. It took nearly a decade for the top radio brass to figure out liberals don't sell on radio. By the time Fox has kicked the liberal channels butts for 10 years they will figure it out too. The three major networks will not exist in 10 or 12 years. There will be far fewer local TV stations and they will just be 24 hour local news stations.

it can all be summed up as follows.

The Media is changing. The right is winning control. The left is losing control.

" Every conservative Republican politician in the country has learned the Gingrich 'lesson', which is that you should limit your televised contact with the 'mainstream' press as much as possible, otherwise they will turn you into the second coming of Ivan the Terrible. Delay most of all has learned this lesson. "

The contrast in coverage of Pelosi and DeLay the last few days, has been incredible. The media is trying to morph DeLay into something evil and Pelosi into something nice. After the obligatory hate filled intro,sometimes mentioning that DeLay used to be a pest exterminator,the interview begins. DeLay comes across as affable and measured and I assume he will continue to do that. Karl Rove operates under the radar and does not make himself a target for the left-although they sure try. Less time in front of a camera and more time getting the work done, seems to be a winning formula.