Tuesday, April 1, 2003

Daschle is Pathetic Jake Tapper's new Salon item about Tom Daschle is just sad.  You don't fight your own fights and you ask others to help you out?  Not that he'd listen even if he did read really, really obscure blogs like this one, but OK, here's some advice: Start calling your harrassers what they are: "patriotically correct" idiots who can see only their way.  I read that phrase in Maureen Ferrell's piece in Buzzflash and it has stuck with me.  I think we should say it as often as they call someone anti-American.  Put them on the defensive, like I think the whole "chickenhawk" debate did. Stop backing down when criticized.  When you rightly blasted Rush Limbaugh for demonizing you, Howard Kurtz said Limbaugh was a "mainstream" conservative.  Go on Kurtz's show (or give someone else an interview) and read some of Limbaugh's on-air statements.  Sharpen your PR fighting skills.  As stupid as Tom DeLay is, his "Fermez la bouche" McCarthyism was, in PR terms, very smart. It likened your criticism of the president to the now-hated French.  How about shooting back something like, "All I have to say to Mr. Delay is that I don't need to be taught a lesson about supporting our soldiers.  I have actually been one." Sure they'll call you mean.  But do you think Tom DeLay loses sleep when someone calls him mean? Just some thoughts... 1:35:51 AM    comment []