Word: beckel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Democrat Bob Beckel, who managed Walter Mondale's campaign in 1984, and Republican Ed Rollins who directed Ronald Reagan's campaign that same year, agreed that President Bush's re-election effort has been poorly planned and ineffective...
Rollins and Beckel, who have traveled the country on a speaking tour, both expressed dissatisfaction with Bush's performance over the past four years...
...Beckel will do anything to attract viewers--especially young ones bored by the cynical, faux-academic caterwauling of a Sam Donaldson or a Pat Buchanan. He peppers the short news reviews in the show with pop music. One show dumped hard news to offer a segment on the new lost generation--the "twentysomethings...
...short, Off the Record isn't just journalistic schmoozing. The fiesty (and, well, dense) Rep. Susan Molinari (R-NY) is one of Beckel's regulars, consistently adding an outsider to the TV journalists' club for the first time in the genre...
...Still, Beckel is clearly the creative force behind the show, which expands on Capital Gang's "Outrages of the Week" and the McLaughlin Group's "Predictions" by offering every week a "Star," a "Goat" AND a "Back Page" from each host--which are, respectively, an upbeat story, an angering one and one that received little attention...