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...DENY REALITY If a reporter asks how you're doing in California, and you're down 30 points, don't say, "We're gonna win it." At least say something like, "It's going to be a struggle." The press appreciates candor and generally doesn't punish you for it. Look at what John McCain got away with. Speaking of McCain, here's Rule 3 for presidential candidates...
...DENY REALITY If a reporter asks how you're doing in California, and you're down 30 points, don't say, "We're gonna win it." At least say something like, "It's going to be a struggle." The press appreciates candor and generally doesn't punish you for it. Look at what John McCain got away with. Speaking of McCain, here's Rule 3 for presidential candidates...
...Sure, for all the jokes, this is not unvarnished candor - even Archbishop Edward Egan urged them to keep hold of "whoever is writing your material." And without the Rorschach questioning of a Jim Lehrer or a Bernard Shaw (or the good undecided people of St. Louis), the civic urgencies of the day (the ones on which we're all supposed to be casting our vote) went unaddressed...
...readers, many of us carry a secret longing for unauthorized histories, works that are therefore free to deliver the real story. The Beatles Anthology is an official version, and although we're occasionally surprised by the Beatles' candor, much of the time we're left thinking that there must be better stories about the group and more eloquent ways of telling them...
...Alcohol was beginning to compete for my affections," Bush admitted. Nothing new, but candor in a minor key. He said that on his fortieth birthday he had too much to drink, that he went jogging the next morning, and during that jog vowed never to drink again...