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Going Out on a Limb

13 Sunday Mar 2016

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The Sunday morning talk shows don’t disappoint.

Republican candidate for the presidential nomination on the chances that there will be a brokered convention:

“It’s probably likely.”

More Over

13 Sunday Mar 2016

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Primary coverage continued.

A campaign advisor discussing the influx of certain ethnic voters to Florida (several thousand potential voters of this ethnicity are relocating to Florida every day):

“They’re anticipating an additional hundred thousand more.”

It’s a Lifetime Appointment

12 Saturday Mar 2016

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Still on the primary beat. It’s like watching a train wreck. Not to mention the coverage.

A reporter on my favorite cable news network just introduced an interviewee. A colleague.

“(She’s an old pal of mine.) A fellow former Miami Herald alum.”

I wonder when they stopped being alums.

Wow. He Must be WAY Back There.

08 Tuesday Mar 2016

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More primary commentary:

A well-known, perhaps notorious, yet, of late at least, generally reliable, anchor on one of the cable stations was tonight providing updates about the returns from one state:

“(A certain senator) trails far behind.”

(Funny thing was, a producer or graphics guy must have thought this was pretty good stuff — within two minutes of the utterance, the quotation was in the crawl.)

Acceptable alternatives: “. . . is far behind.” Or, “. . .trails by a lot.”

I’d be surprised if a candidate could trail far ahead.

 

The Old Double-Double

07 Monday Mar 2016

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This primary season just keeps getting better and better.

Q: What is more entertaining that the debates?

A: The post-game show.

This morning, with regard to the Democratic debate last night, a talk show host provided this analysis:

“Both of those answers are pretty much exactly the same.”

Seems like that may be overdoing it a bit.

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