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...Beckel hates boring political discussion. Interest rates--bleh. Transportation policy--funerals are more fun. But the Willie Smith rape trial? A real winner...
...Beckel is the host of Off the Record, a Washington-based (and soon to be national) political talk show that defies all the stuffy rules of Face the Nation and This Week with David Brinkley. (You might remember Beckel from the 1984 presidential race, when he managed Walter Mondale's "campaign." Don't be scared off, though. He does better with this show...
...Rourke, who combines a devilish Dennis the Menace grin with the sure shuffle of a frat boy who's dating the homecoming queen, into America's journalistic elite. "He's got the hyperactivity of Hunter Thompson but with a less fried brain," says drinking buddy and political commentator Bob Beckel. Adds friend and humorist Dave Barry: "He's outrageous, and I like that. In the age of political correctness, I think it's good to have somebody who does that." O'Rourke's writing is driven by a practiced wit, a brilliant use of analogy, and a hard edge capable...
Democratic honchos fear that the new rules will make it even more difficult for a candidate to wrap up the nomination before convention time and give Jackson a definite leg up in the 1992 race. Last week two white party | strategists, Thomas Donilon and Robert Beckel, circulated a paper that argues for a return to the previous rules. In a thinly veiled reference to Jackson, the report says the new system "rewards those candidates who have goals other than the nomination." D.N.C. chief Ron Brown has said he does not want to "reopen that can of worms," but by supporting...
...through the skillful negotiating tactics of Mondale's point man on the issue, Robert Beckel, the Jackson factor was effectively neutralized. The result was that Mondale got little in the way of fervent support from Jackson and his followers, but more importantly in the eyes of the Mondale campaign, he got little in the way of outright opposition. Talk of forming a third party ended up being just that...