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...Sunday talk shows, a deficit hawk who, with 90 days to go, decided to pose as a tax cutter, and a man who never learned George Bush's First Rule of Politics: If you have to attack a member of the media, go after Dan Rather, not Katie Couric...
Your enemies are as important as your friends. Clinton's enemies: Joe Camel, the NRA, despoilers of the Grand Canyon. Dole's enemies: teachers, the N.A.A.C.P., Katie Couric, minimum-wage workers. And with friends like Newt, Dole couldn't really afford enemies. All those double-date press conferences during the budget negotiations looked like a buddy movie with Newt the star and Dole the sidekick. If Newt were really Dole's friend, he wouldn't be running around the country swinging a plastic bucket to symbolize all the money the revolution saved on congressional ice deliveries while his standard-bearer...
...when things look easy, he almost seems to look for ways to make them harder, move to where he's more comfortable. Instead of spending his summer telling voters why he wants to be President, he lit bonfires over abortion, tobacco, assault weapons, barked at American icons like Katie Couric and Dr. C. Everett Koop, and advocated reopening Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House one day after a bomb went off in Atlanta. He has stuck with a vow of silence to keep from getting in trouble, uncharacteristically refusing to answer reporters' campaign-trail questions at a time...
...earlier, calmer part of the week, MSNBC had made a creditable debut. The well-hyped challenger to CNN brought some big guns to the competition: top NBC correspondents like Andrea Mitchell and Gwen Ifill contributed updates on major stories during the day, and network stars like Tom Brokaw, Katie Couric and Bob Costas took turns as host of a nightly interview show called InterNight. (Just how long they will continue to do double-duty for MSNBC remains to be seen.) With its pleasantly bustling set, slick presentation and hot-wired anchors, MSNBC made CNN look a little dowdy...
Something about women journalists brings out the worst in a man. Ask Katie Couric. Or a pregnant reporter whom Republican Congressman Wes Cooley of Oregon threatened to punch in the nose for asking uncomfortable questions about his wife's finances. Or Mimi Swartz, a National Magazine Award winner who had the temerity to write a profile in Texas Monthly of freshman Congressman Steve Stockman, a former house painter who personifies the desire of voters to throw out incumbents in favor of the inexperienced and the uninformed. Offering a great deal of evidence, she described him as a militia-loving, ethically...