So I just watched RFK Jr. on Blitzer's show talking about his article in Rolling Stone
"Was the 2004 Election Stolen." I'm so frustrated I don't know where to start.
All I can say is, can we please get Democrats who are going on camera, on national media, facing pundits like Blitzer, with GOP talking heads counting their arguments, some fucking media training.
Please. Dear. God.
For starters, just sit up straight. Sounds picky, but when you look visually crooked when placed in your talking head box next to the GOP hack who looks completely polished, it just plain looks bad.
Next, please dear God don't sound whiny. When the charge that is going to be leveled at you for writing an article about how your party lost an election through fraud is going to be that you are doing nothing but "whining" please don't represent their charge. Speak the hell up. Sing it to the mountain. Don't equivocate. Don't qualify. Don't get off message. Just stick to your damn point.
Finally, please just for once have your talking points lined up and stick to them. Don't go off on tangents or start sentences over and over.
RFK Jr. has done a great thing by raising the Ohio election issues to a level the MSM is willing to give it some air time. He has the facts to back up his arguments. But for crying out loud, he looked like a deer in the headlights, and gave the opposition the ability to dominate the discussion and actually make the claim, more than once, that it was Democrats - not Republicans - who were responsible for "stuffing the ballot box" with newly registered voters who were "questionable."
Blitzer was great at cutting him off too. And of course, Kerry's support for the election results and immediate roll over helped the Democratic cause well in this on too.
I watched Pelosi on MTP get owned by Russert a couple weeks ago. Now this. I'm just so frustrated that the GOP get that ideas are great, but presentation is just as important. In our limited attention span world where American Idol get more votes than does a presidential candidate, presentation is sometimes more important.
Apologies to Robert Kennedy Jr.,who is bearing the brunt of my frustration here, as his is a really good article and took courage to push such a story.
I'm just frustrated with what seems a constant pattern of Democrats in the media who just seem incapable of effective on-air, on-point, performance. There are only so many opportunities we can miss, and so many times we can live up to the GOP sereotypes before we as a party become charactures in the mind of average non-tuned in Americans, and any hope of driving our points home are lost for good.