blogs.orlandosentinel.com - 10/25/2008
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blogs.orlandosentinel.com —
WFTV-Channel 9's Barbara West conducted a satellite interview
with Sen. Joe Biden on Thursday. A friend says
it's some of the best entertainment he's seen recently. What do you think? West wondered about Sen. Barack Obama's comment, to Joe the ...
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Obama campaign cuts off WFTV after interview with Joe ...
michellemalkin.com - 10/25/2008
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ABC Anchor to Biden: Deny Obama's a Marxist!!!
Talking Points Memo —
Biden actually holds up pretty well in front of what has to be the most nutball interviewer of the 2008 cycle, an anchor from a local ABC affiliate in Florida ...
(Biden's remark at 1:05 is one of many reasons I really like the guy ... to understand the answer you've got to see the question which starts about 43 seconds in.)
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Ari Melber: Obama's Inverted Media Strategy Upends Homestretch Heirarchy
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
For the homestretch of the presidential race, the Obama campaign has launched an inverted TV strategy -- focusing on national disintermediation and local engagement.
To maximize TV coverage in key states, Sen. Barack Obama's aides offer local anchors interviews with Obama and his running mate, Sen. Joe Biden. So instead of rebutting the latest Republican charge on the national news, we see Obama parrying attacks in a local interview. Biden could have a civilized debate with Bob Schieffer, to be sure, but instead he subjected himself to that Flordia anchor's odd grilling about Marxism.
Meanwhile, when the campaign wants to reach ...
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From NBC's Ron Allen The nation's most senior senator, Robert C. Byrd , looks a bit frail these days -- but he remains quite feisty. On Friday, in the heart of Charleston, WV, he sat on stage in a wheelchair, with an appropriate-sized lectern ...