Jesus. I read in Howie Kurtz's Media Notes this morning that Donna Brazile sees the door slammed shut for John Edwards:
"But the odds against him are enormous. 'I don't see where he gets a new pool of voters to draw on,' said Donna Brazile, the manager of Al Gore's 2000 campaign and a person who tabbed Edwards early as the dark horse in this year's race.
That's fine and all, but her tabbing of Edwards as the dark horse wasn't all that early. Exactly one week ago she said:
"John Edwards is really catching fire," said Al Gore (news - web sites) campaign manager Donna Brazile, one of the savviest Democratic strategists.
So which is it, Donna? I mean, I'm sure she did support him early on, only to abandon him after that disastrous meet the press interview. But not so long ago, she seemed to think he had all the mo.
These aren't the only two instances from the past week, but these are the only ones I could dig up on a cursory search. And I know there are issues of context and semantics here. But she strikes me as someone who will pithily summarize whatever the conventional wisdom happens to be, for the sole purpose of getting on TV. I'm too lazy to do a detailed examination, but I recall the amount of praise in her comments regarding Wesley Clark being directly proportional to Clark's standing in the polls throughout last fall and this winter.
Has no one ever called her on this? Or am I wrong in my perception? It seems like the many, many, many, many, many times she's been wrong in the last six months are quickly forgotten by whomever keeps putting her on TV.
I know she's not the only one, but she seems to flip faster than most. At least give O'Reilly a little credit, he occasionally apologizes when he's wrong.