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.”
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.”
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.”
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.
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.
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.