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McCain's Media Strategy Exposed
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire — In an interview with the Columbia Journalism Review, former McCain presidential campaign staffer Michael Goldfarb explains how he was hired "to attack the press" as an official campaign blogger. ...

Goldfarb reflects
Political Animal — GOLDFARB REFLECTS.... Michael Goldfarb, who did communications/blogging work for the McCain campaign before returning to the Weekly Standard , sat down for an interesting interview with CJR 's Kate Klonick about his campaign experiences. The interview covers quite a bit of ground, and even makes some news -- Goldfarb notes that the campaign was, at one point, poised "to throw The New York Times off the plane," which I hadn't heard about before. Goldfarb also notes that he was hired to "attack the press"; he boasted that he was "good at ... pissing off the media"; and he ...

Journalism, Campaign Hackery. What's the Difference?
Hit & Run — Funny Columbia Journalism Review interview with the Weekly Standard's Michael Goldfarb, about his time on the payroll of GOP presidential candidate John McCain: ...

Goldfarb: McCain camp almost kicked off Times
Michael Calderone's Blog — ... after working on the McCain campaign, gave a revealing interview to CJR about dealing with the press, his YouTube moment on CNN, and just how serious the campaign was to kicking the Times off the plane -- as ...

alicublog — THE PERMANENT CAMPAIGN. Michael Goldfarb was interviewed at CJR about his experiences as a McCain campaign blogger. Throughout the course of the thing, it's clear he thinks he did a great job. When a political flak's cause fails as badly as Goldfarb's did, you'd expect he would think up ways he might have done it better, at least to show prospective employers that he isn't committed to losing strategies. But maybe winning this election wasn't as important to him as it might seem. ...

War and Piece — ... January 28, 2009 CJR 's Kate Klonick interviews former McCain blogger Michael Goldfarb about the campaign. Posted by Laura at January 28, 2009 07:43 AM

McCain's Media Strategy
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Goldfarb explains: [The McCain campaign] assured me that they were looking for someone to attack the press... I was a cudgel. I pissed off the media. They were furious about it. That was the effect the campaign was looking for. Goldberg unpacks: if The New Yorker is to Sarah Palin what Jane Goodall is to ape-fucking, then The New Yorker obviously did a fine job covering the campaign. ...

Daily Digest: Right and 'Net Getting Over First Decade Jitters
techPresident — ... As we've noted in the past, having largely been passed over by that whole group-blogging phenomenon, the right is taking to peer-to-peer networking like Twitter and Ning like developing countries leapfrog over landlines right to mobile phones. Feltz gives a great rundown of the state of things, including the someone tortured relationship between the online right and the McCain campaign. (For more on that topic, checkout McCain blogger Michael Goldfarb detailing how he was hired to antagonize the press and was left with little direction -- ...

McCain Blogger Goldfarb: 'I Thought From The Beginning That We Would Lose'
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... Columbia Journalism Review has an interview with McCain campaign blogger Michael Goldfarb, and it's clear that Goldfarb has emerged from the experience...uhm...well, he has emerged from the experience, anyway. Basically, Goldfarb is mad at the media, and is under the impression that he put one over on them, through his deft blogging about Dungeons and Dragons. I mean, at one point, he compares himself, favorably, to Tucker Bounds, which is just something sane people don't do. "I was a cudgel," Goldfarb enthuses, describing himself as a weapon that you wouldn't ...

McCain Blogger Goldfarb: 'I Thought From The Beginning That We Would Lose'
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Columbia Journalism Review has an interview with McCain campaign blogger Michael Goldfarb, and it's clear that Goldfarb has emerged from the experience...uhm...well, he has emerged from the experience, anyway. Basically, Goldfarb is mad at the media, and is under the impression that he put one over on them, through his deft blogging about Dungeons and Dragons. I mean, at one point, he compares himself, favorably, to Tucker Bounds, which is just something sane people don't do. "I was a cudgel," Goldfarb enthuses, describing himself as a weapon that you wouldn't ...

Remainders: Do nothing
Ben Smith's Blog — The NRSC goes after Reid. The Do-Nothing Crowd makes its voice heard. Goldfarb dishes. ProPublica lists all the "war on terror" memos it wants released. Tumulty seems less than totally thrilled that Time's execs are blowing the company's travel budget at Davos. An anonymous Holder aide denies any promises on torture prosecutions. Gillibrand has more connections than the average political animal. Bill Clinton made more than $2 million from foreign ...

links for 2009-01-29
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... (tags: barack_obama bailout) Q & A: Former McCain Blogger Michael Goldfarb - McCain, Sarah Palin and Jeremiah Wright I like Sarah Palin, I think she was a very attractive candidate, but I think she made a lot of mistakes. But so ...

Matt Lewis: Q & A: Former McCain Blogger Michael Goldfarb
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — ... Posted by: Matt Lewis at 1:34 PM I have no idea how I missed this, but let me highly recommend to you this very interesting interview with former McCain blogger Michael Goldfarb. ...