In the last week I've read "The Audacity to Win" and Dan Baltz and Haynes Johnson's new book about the 2008 campaign and I am resolved, as we used to say in college debates: I will never listen to cable news again.
That may mean saying goodbye to Rachel Madow, whom I adore, but I'll be firm.
Plouffe, my hero, says the cable people rarely got the campaign strategy right, even when it was laid out for them in press conferences in black and white. For weeks, i have been hearing the ins and outs of the health care battle. I was so disgusted with Joe Liberman and his opposition in the face of all Barak had done for him that I paid $15 for his supposed email address and wrote a blistering letter, calling him dumb as dirt and kowtowwing to Haddasa's $1 million from the Health Insurance Industry.
Here's what changed my life: Plouffe writes that the cable input was so wrong that they watched ESPN on the campaign bus. Voilla. I'll get movies.
I may even watch football. Anything but cable news. The 24/7 cycle has polluted the atmosphere for me. Except for Jon Stewart. I'll watch him.
And a great big shout out for David Plouffe.
Friday, November 27, 2009
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