I'm watching a duet of arguments from Katie Couric and Keith Olbermann about sexism in the primary. Couric thinks Clinton had the worst media treatment she's ever seen, because of tolerated sexism, for which Olbermann calls her the 'worst person in the world'. Very bloggy exchange.
McCain is going to lose, and lose big. I just watched McCain's full strategy briefing by Rick Davis, which you can see here. It reminds me of a dot com business plan from 1999, with unbelievably ridiculous assumptions. In the path to victory section, Davis encourages us to 'keep a close eye on California'. Crash.
He brags that the campaign is ahead in Wisconsin, though the latest poll shows him 14 points behind. Crash.
And can compete in New Mexico because of his appeal among Hispanic voters, despite two recent polls showing Obama leading McCain among hispanics by thirty points. Crash.
Davis also says that no public poll has shown Obama leading McCain among independents. What about this one? Crash.
Washington is no longer a swing state, with McCain down by 18. This can only help downticket candidates like Darcy Burner.
According to Rasmussen, Cornyn is up by 17 against Noriega. This race is a gamble, and will rely on Cornyn doing something really stupid and Noriega taking advantage.
Dion Nissenbaum of McClatchy reports that a strike on Iran is back on the table.
New Obama economic policy director Jason Furman picks up some defenders.
Remember Couric's ridiculously positive reporting on Iraq? After getting pushback from viewers, prompted by Moveon, CBS apparently sent emails out to viewers who complained saying they had probably just heard misinformation from 'some blog'.
A reporter at WebProNews followed up to find out more about the squabble, and when he wrote that CBS attacked bloggers, got threatened with a lawsuit by Couric's PR department. Here's Jason Lee Miller:
A few minutes later, Ms. Farley, by telephone, insists that everything that was said yesterday was off the record, that CBS didn't even have a "no comment" because there was nothing to comment on, and if I printed that I could expect to hear from CBS's legal department. Very suddenly, then, she has turned my puff piece into a major story about a major network trying to bully a Web-publication with the threat of a SLAPP suit. And I am stunned by how she has transformed something routine into something newsworthy.
This sue-happy vicious culture comes from the top. The CEO of CBS, Les Moonves, filed a $500 million lawsuit against Howard Stern out of spite. He also employed Don Imus for years before being forced to fire him recently for racial and sexist slurs. Lovely organization you've got going, Mr. Moonves.
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