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One of the more interesting sidebar PR discussions regarding House Speaker Paul Ryan’s media event yesterday detailing his “three-pronged approach” to repealing and replacing Obamacare was the format itself. A PowerPoint? skeptics asked. Ross...
During any Washington press briefing — after the political figure delivers his or her canned opening statement — that moment of truth arrives during an aggressive reporter Q and A session when success or...
The last thing I wanted to write and think about over this past long weekend is Donald Trump — I do enough of that the rest of the week. The fact my recent posts...
Of the myriad observations one can make about President Donald Trump’s understanding of media and making news, perhaps the most pertinent is that he’s an extraordinarily quick study. Throughout the GOP primary and general...
When GOP presidential candidate Marco Rubio recently decided to abandon his positive, aspirational message and go toe to toe with Donald Trump in the lowbrow realm of personal ad hominem attacks, I considered it...
While Texas Senator Ted Cruz is plunging the nation and the Republican Party into an ultra-risky, ill-considered government shutdown — with no apparent longer term strategy — he deserves credit for engaging the so-called...
Politico is reporting today, correctly, that window is closing for those who want to bulldoze the Obama health law in court. It is going to become increasingly difficult because courts are much less willing...
Just several months ago, Illinois GOP Senate candidate, Rep. Mark Kirk, was flying high — and a solid front runner to win Barack Obama’s Senate seat while Democrat Alexi Giannoulias was being dogged by...
Any press operative who has ever been sent into a high stakes campaign environment knows one of the first things NOT to do is become a campaign issue yourself. Mike Meehan, dispatched by the DSCC to “help” Martha Coakley in Massachusetts against Republican Scott Brown, seems to have body-checked a Weekly Standard reporter and then menaced him, for lack of a better word, at a Capitol Hill fundraiser.
Putting aside the appalling double standard from Democrats regarding Trent Lott’s comments about Strom Thurmond and Harry Reid’s comments about President Obama, one key question surrounding this explosive news nugget served up by Mark...