David Kronke was appointed Mayor of Television after a bloodless coup in 2000. Since then, he has improved infrastructure, championed greater educational opportunities and fought for reforms that have utterly erased corruption and incompetence from the television industry. Since Mr. Kronke has ascended to power, Television is a far better place. Megyn Kelly moves it; Mitt Romney moves out
Fox News’ Megyn Kelly offered an interesting study in journalism as choreography: Whenever I saw her, she was in near-constant motion as cameras followed her sauntering through the newsroom set, gracefully cascading towards the camera while spreading her arms toward CGI statistical graphics that really weren’t there. Did Walter Cronkite ever manage that?
Fox is also finding it hard to suppress its anger at what Mike Huckabee has done to their guy Mitt Romney.
Big theme tonight is: WTF with conservatives hating McCain? With RNC water carriers like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Ann Coulter vowing they’d vote for a Democrat over McCain, everyone’s wondering, why? And, now that their influence has proven to be somewhat less than influential, why further diminish a base that will already be depleted over most Americans’ being in direct opposition to the war in Iraq?
McCain’s a maverick©, and, until recently, that’s what everyone has liked about him. Except a very recherché conservative base. His “straight talk” almost got him over the hump in 2000 until a most unseemly smear campaign in South Carolina. Matthew Continetti, trying to make sense of this, blogs for the New York Times:
“The ideological critics dislike Senator McCain — who has an 82.3 lifetime rating from the American Conservative Union — because, it is said, he’s no conservative. Senator McCain supported a campaign finance law that banned soft money. He voted against the Bush tax cuts in 2001 and 2003. He has championed an immigration reform bill that would provide a pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens. And he supports a “cap-and-trade” bill to limit carbon dioxide emissions. Senator McCain is a deviationist.
“When you look over the list of his deviations, however, one cannot help thinking of … George W. Bush. President Bush, like Senator McCain, has found himself at odds from time to time with the right. It was President Bush who signed his campaign finance reform bill into law. It has been President Bush who has championed immigration reform, including a “path to citizenship” for illegal aliens, throughout his presidency. His version of “Big Government Conservatism” gave us the No Child Left Behind Act, which lavishes federal dollars on a department conservatives once wanted to close. His prescription drug benefit was the largest expansion of the federal welfare state in 40 years. He has backed farm subsidies and imposed steel tariffs. President Bush is a deviationist.”
Personally, I still have no idea why the RNC is so hot for Romney – some guy on CNN just said (while I was folding laundry; yeah, it’s gotten that anticlimactic at this point) “The only way Mitt Romney can spin this after tonight is, ‘I have really nice hair.’”
Mittens just oozes that multimillionaire’s hauteur and sense of entitlement that real people will never cozy to, and the fact that he spends a lot of his own money and whimpers when things don’t go his way is unattractive to apparently more people than me. I daresay it’s a little like President Bush whining when Congress doesn’t give him everything he wants, even when polls show that everything he wants is precisely what most Americans don’t want: He’ll veto the FISA warrantless wiretap bill if Congress won’t protect telecom corporations from prosecution if what they’ve already done is, in fact, illegal – and he’ll veto that bill even if it might possibly save American lives. Romney has that same my-way-or-the-highway mentality, and who cares if his way is pockmarked with potholes.
Anyway, so much for this Super Tuesday analysis bunk. We’ll return tomorrow with the usual imbecilic meanderings about “According to Jim” and whistling-past-the-graveyard writers-strike jokes.
Comments
I think it's Megyn and NOT Megan.
Posted by: R.J. Johnson | February 7, 2008 10:56 AM
You are correct, sir. And it has been fixed. Part of the perils of live-blogging is that fact-checking comes a distant second (though if you Google “Megan Kelly,” as I did in an effort to confirm her moniker, you still get a lot of hits).
As penance, I offer up this clip of Kelly saying a bad word on Bill O’Reilly’s show.
Posted by: The Mayor | February 7, 2008 12:23 PM
I think Megyn's "bad" word was just an electronic burp in the satellite transmission used by the local cable provider.
Well, it sounded good to say that. :)
R.J. Johnson
Posted by: R.J. Johnson | February 7, 2008 1:20 PM