Levi Johntson must have texted a powerful apology to Bristol Palin. After going on TV and talk radio across the country for the past 18 months to bad-mouth her family, that apology sealed him his engagement—and, according to some media rumors, an upcoming reality TV show. Whatever. My point? Situations calling for a public apology [...]
After media interviews earlier today in New York to predict what would happen on stage tonight, I raced home from the airport with only 30 seconds to spare, grabbed a pen and paper, and flipped on the TV to see the candidates spar again. Anticipation. Excitement. Anxiety. I turned off the TV 90 minutes later, disappointed and [...]
Governor Palin and Senator Biden had obviously listened to all the TV pundits give them tips this past week about “what they had to do” to deliver a knock-out punch tonight. Biden’s would-be advisers continued to tell him: 1) Be respectful. Don’t be patronizing. 2) Attack McCain; ignore her. 3) Tie McCain to Bush’s record. The pundits’ advice to [...]
If the 2000 Gore-Bush campaign was all about the “fuzzy math,” the 2008 campaign is shaping up to be about the grammar gremlins. So far, they show no party loyalty. The problem dangler has appeared in several major speeches since the conventions opened on August 25 and they continue just about every time the candidates [...]
Another flip-flop. No, not McCain’s or Obama’s. Mine. Because I was going to be vacationing during the Republican convention, I had decided not to blog about either the Democratic or Republican convention. It’s not that I didn’t plan to be watching all the major speeches of both parties, but it’s that I didn’t plan to spend [...]
