Props to Josh
Frank Rich in his New York Times column today gives a favorable mention to TPM and Josh Marshall:
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At Talking Points Memo, the essential blog vigilantly pursuing the McCain revelations often ignored elsewhere, Josh Marshall accurately observes that the Republican candidate is “graded on a curve.”
Most Americans still don’t know, as Marshall writes, that on the campaign trail “McCain frequently forgets key elements of policies, gets countries’ names wrong, forgets things he’s said only hours or days before and is frequently just confused.”
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So kudos to Josh for fighting the good fight.
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At Talking Points Memo, the essential blog vigilantly pursuing the McCain revelations often ignored elsewhere, Josh Marshall accurately observes that the Republican candidate is “graded on a curve.”
Most Americans still don’t know, as Marshall writes, that on the campaign trail “McCain frequently forgets key elements of policies, gets countries’ names wrong, forgets things he’s said only hours or days before and is frequently just confused.”
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(emphasis added)
So kudos to Josh for fighting the good fight.
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Forgot to include the link to the article: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/opinion/17rich.html?ref=opinion
August 17, 2008 10:15 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yay! Josh.
August 17, 2008 11:04 AM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks for the post. I had thought Frank Rich was still on vacation. Excellent article and cool that Josh & TPM got the shout out they deserve. Frank Rich really puts his finger on it:
"...What is widely known is the skin-deep, out-of-date McCain image. As this fairy tale has it, the hero who survived the Hanoi Hilton has stood up as rebelliously in Washington as he did to his Vietnamese captors. He strenuously opposed the execution of the Iraq war; he slammed the president’s response to Katrina; he fought the “agents of intolerance” of the religious right; he crusaded against the G.O.P. House leader Tom DeLay, the criminal lobbyist Jack Abramoff and their coterie of influence-peddlers.
With the exception of McCain’s imprisonment in Vietnam, every aspect of this profile in courage is inaccurate or defunct..."
I doubt that the lazy MSM actually follows through and does their job, though. Cokie Roberts and Bob Schaeffer need to read it.
August 17, 2008 11:23 AM | Reply | Permalink
I don't think Cokie Roberts reads anything anymore. She's too mired in her omniscience. Just saying. ;-)
Yes, kudos to Josh for carry on the torch.
August 17, 2008 1:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Kudos to Josh and anyone in the media willing to play 'straight talk' with the so called'straight talker'.
August 17, 2008 2:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'll break out the pom poms. Meanwhile, back on the campaign trail,
July's NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll found that three in four Americans believe McCain can "handle" the role of commander in chief, while only 19 percent said he "cannot," compared to a 50 percent to 42 percent split for Obama.
When asked which party is more capable of "dealing with the war on terrorism," 40 percent of respondents to the latest NBC/WSJ poll said Republican while 29 percent said Democrat. The parties had been effectively tied as recently as January of this year, and the 11-percentage-point gap is the largest since 2004, the last year these numbers shifted so dramatically and, not coincidentally, the last presidential election year.
In July of 2004, Gallup found that the public equally trusted the two nominees’ capacity to serve as commander in chief. Just before the election, Bush had opened up an eight-percentage-point lead, 65 percent to 57 percent, over Democratic nominee Sen. John F. Kerry — a gap just one-third as large as that separating the candidates today.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080817/pl_politico/12592;_ylt=Aq_jw2TkaWFA_g5D7UQfNm0Gw_IE
I guess TPM needs more readers.
August 17, 2008 8:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
We're just in the prelims now. Obama was dead in the water 3 months before Iowa. He seems to know the cadence of campaigning.
August 17, 2008 9:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Agree with that. I just can't see any way for him to improve the CIC numbers.
August 17, 2008 10:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
The more specific McCain is forced to get, the worse he will look. McCain just looks good from afar.
August 18, 2008 8:48 AM | Reply | Permalink
Josh has been very consistent in the way he collects bodies of evidence and it is good to see a main stream media player dipping into the pool.
The plan is working.
August 17, 2008 8:23 PM | Reply | Permalink