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...year-old U.S. Attorney dropped many a memorable sound byte when he unveiled corruption charges against Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich on Tuesday, referring to the governor's actions as a "political corruption crime spree" that brought the state's notoriously crooked politics to a "truly new low" and "would make Lincoln roll over in his grave." The rhetoric, called priggish by some, is not surprising for a guy who has built his career fighting Mob bosses, terrorists, drug lords and double-dealing public servants like former Bush aide "Scooter" Libby. "It has become a cliché to compare...
...said that Palin’s approach to the debate last Thursday was identical to her debating style in the gubernatorial race. “Her performance in the debate was pretty much the same,” he said. “Stay on message, and provide sound byte after sound byte. There was no depth or specifics, and what I saw Thursday was certainly what I saw in 2006. How do you get away filling a 45-second segment with nothingness?” Halcro did praise Palin’s political savvy, attributing her popularity...
...both following its precepts and arguing for them. As Dewey wrote in “The Public and Its Problems,” “Thinking and beliefs should be experimental, not absolutistic.” The basis for social policy then becomes not a matter of sound-byte ideals, but a matter of establishing concrete correlations of cause and effect that depend on the particular and complicated history of each problem...
...Mexican immigrant community. “It is very different when you have one country, one foreign language, and so many illegal immigrants,” she said. Preston acknowledged that “the word ‘legal’ is a very hard sound byte to address,” making it harder for the government to explore legalization policies. Preston later said that while immigration is a civil issue, it is often thought of as a criminal matter. “The words criminal and alien have gotten into the debate in a very inappropriate...
...dinnertime news broadcasts, so is the Iraq conflict emerging as the first YouTube war. Growing up in a world where they can swap MP3s as well as intimate details about their lives via MySpace or Facebook, American soldiers are swapping their Iraq experience as well. There's a byte-enabled intimacy to "The War Tapes," the film that bills itself as the first documentary about the war filmed by those fighting it. Critics of the mainstream media's war coverage might hope that the soldier's unmediated view would be a more positive one. Vice President Cheney complained last March...