brianstelter
Forget remixes of McCain's speech on YouTube. There'll be mashups of Andrea Mitchell's balloon dance tomorrow. BW: "Balloon-wielding thugs."
| #RNC08 Diane Sawyer on ABC: "In 22 days, we're going to have a debate." |
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| #RNC08 A speech "not without high points... a speech not without significant stumbles," Olbermann says, citing "hands and nose" flub. |
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| #RNC08 Brian Williams commenting on the protesters and on green screen. Chuck Todd: "He used the word change 10 times, experience just 3." |
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| #RNC08 Katie Couric: "It was almost a throw-the-bums-out speech, with the bums being Democrats AND Republicans." |
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| Note to self: look at the half-hour ratings for Thursday night. Will the audience grow or decline between 10 and 11pm? |
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| This is the collective sound on Twitter now: whew, the green screen was only temporary. |
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| This is the collective sound on Twitter right now: green?? really? for McCain's backdrop? |
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| FOXNews.com has excerpts of Woodward's new book. In it, McCain expresses frustration with Bush's White House: "Everything is fucking spin." |
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| @jenmoire Found it. Olbermann apologized TO the audience for the RNC's 9/11 video and said it was "prob. not appropriate to be shown." |
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| @jenmoire can you recall what he said? i'm trying to pull up the video. |
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| O'Reilly's Obama interview will be aired in FOUR parts... Thursday and next Mon-Wed. http://tinyurl.com/6edajx |
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| It's been a week and people are still mis-pronouncing Palin's name. |
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| #RNC08 Fox News averaged 9.2 million last night; a record high for cable news convention coverage. |
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| #DNC08 How'd the Dems' HD video player do? "More than 350,000 hours of video were watched by DemConvention.com visitors" they say. |
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| #RNC08 The early ratings for Palin's speech are BIG. Not Obama big, but surprisingly strong. |
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| HA! On the home page of MSNBC.com: "Can McCain outperform Palin in tonight's speech? Vote!" |
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| #RNC08 Tuesday's ratings: http://tinyurl.com/6bpbct |
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| #rnc08 Chris Wallace on Fox: "A star was born tonight." He called it "the single most compelling Republican argument of this cycle." |
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| #rnc08 George Stephanopolous: "The McCain campaign did something very important tonight. They broke free of George Bush." |
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