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Easily. but i dont think its effective. and i think that generally when politicians get into arguments about ads, that it is a process thing and most voters dont hear those complaints. and joe, to your point about gingrich being on to something in iowa, i think that christmas ad may be nice over the holidays, but hes not been able to muster an effective response to the substance of the charges against him. he does not have a well-organized media machine for him with surrogates and endorsers who ...

Sort of defining one. in britain at the time about tony blair and his rise to power. about tony blair as a politician. he was seen as this incredibly effective, incredibly nimble politician who was great at getting elected but who was also so thoroughly and desperately a politician that it was a little bit unnerving. but maybe being craven, maybe being that much of a politician was part of how skilled he was. key to tony blairs rise to ç power was the fact he was able to get the all-powerful r...

Thursday. >> well, nato took control of all air operations over libya this morning, this as four different congressional hearings on libya are planned for this morning and afternoon in washington. defense secretary robert gates and admiral mike mullen are testifying about libya right now in front of the house armed services committee. tea partyers will rally on capitol hill today at noon urging fellow republicans not to compromise on spending cuts, as they are trying to negotiate a federal bud...

Takeover. i would repeal obama care. obama care is bad law constitutionally, it is bad policy, it is bad for american families. that is one reason why president obama will be a one-term president. >> this is romneys defense it was good for massachusetts, but a one size fits all is not good for the country. a lot of analysts saw that speech as romneys unofficial kickoff for the 2012 season. there is no crying in basketball, is there? apparently lebron james and dwyane wade and gang were weeping...

Discrete itted case that he and his supporters are anti-white racists or tolerant of that kind of racism. a department of agriculture fixture was pushed out after a video was released by a right wing website in which she admits 24 years ago she failed to give a white farmer all the help she could because of his race. shirley sherrod says the speech was to show how wrong she was at the time. but the right wing media machine has suggested that she discriminated while an obama appointee, in other w...

Its all on the record? >> well, you dont make it go away. theres two strategies they tend to use here. one is the real big lesson from rand paul. dont ever set foot anywhere near anyone but the most sympathetic conservative press. so i think that that clearly is going to be the strategy going forward. and one of the things is that the conservative media machine is so massive, its almost possible to run a whole campaign in which you more or less just operate in that bubble and relegate the rest o...

It go away when its on the record record? >> you dont make it go away. this is the real big lesson from rand paul. dont ever set foot anywhere near anyone but the most sympathetic conservative press. so i think that that clearly is the strategy going forward. and one of the things is that the conservative media machine is so massive, its almost possible to run a whole campaign in which you more or less just operate in that bubble and relegate the rest of the press to sort of second order reporti...

Limbaugh and his incredible reality-bending media machine that the right have. >> every democrat president youve known before this one was impeached. and for pretty flimsy reasons, so unfortunately the reality has been bent to go along with the bent message. and to that point, senator mccain told the hill newspaper that republicans are happy to sit down with democrats and the white house, but he said, on things like -- let me read the quote exactly, on things like health care, theyve got to star...

And the fact is that every single day, every moment of every single day, we in the media and the american people by consuming all of this are not focusing on one thing for an extended period of time, and he does it so expertly, and the white house media machine and the presidents own instincts here, we had the wonderful return of a mormon missionary who had been in jail with his wife in venezuela in a hideous situation for two years. its a great moment. they came right to the oval office for a p...

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