Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '08: Peggy Noonan Tells... the TRUTH!

[johnfunk]

At Gene G's Synaphaï Blog:

Thanks to some miracle of technological or production failure, a conversation between MSNBC's political director Chuck Todd, conservative columnist and speechwriter Peggy Noonan, and Republican political strategist Mike Murphy (who is, as the kids say, thisclose to the McCain campaign) – a brief exchange which all parties surely assumed was off mike – ended up on the air and, thanks to the miracle of the YouNet, on the Intertubes:

Click here to read the entire post and see the video clip -- with a complete transcript -- is a must hear.

Gene's right:
1) "The "off-the-air, on-the-down-low" comments suggest that there are many powerful Republicans who remain stunned, dispirited and infuriated at John McCain's choice of running mates – and that the choice is further fracturing a divided GOP."
2) "the entire incident is among the most damning evidence I have yet seen that one should never, ever trust one word from pundit bobbleheads that mark time on America's so-called 'cable news' infotainment outlets."

[johnfunk]

1. kick

[zbdent]

2. wasn't there a bit of flak about how people should treat a microphone as

open all the time?