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...their same old constituency shelling out the cash that keeps bread on the table. I’m just not convinced they’ll have to compromise artistically at all. As for your gut-level complaint, your conviction that the deal just smacks of something foul, well that’s a real, legitimate problem. You’re an idealist, my friend. You want to believe in Indie, the idea of great music divorced from money and beyond the reach of the industry machines. It’s a nice thought for sure. But in practice, few musicians...
...Florida debacle, a still fresh memory in 2004, was more than a neutral foul-up to Gore supporters. The premature call for Bush was first made at Fox News, where Bush's cousin John Ellis was analyzing exit polls. That became the model for the liberals' pro-Bush-bias narrative: a core of Bushite media was pushing G.O.P. spin, attacks and talking points, and cowing the mainstream media into running with it. "The media are a kind of prisoner of the fear of being labeled liberal," says Eric Alterman, author of What Liberal Media? "This gives the right enormous license...
...speed dial. The Bush campaign's rapid-response team discovered remarks Kerry had made to a local Wisconsin TV station during those interviews by satellite, reiterating the criticism he had been making for months that Bush had let bin Laden slip away at Tora Bora. The Bushies cried foul and had Bush do so in his last speech of the day. "It's the worst kind of Monday-morning quarterbacking," said Bush. "It is especially shameful in the light of a new tape from America's enemy." But did Americans agree, or was the tape a reminder of Bush...
...promise not to criticize his friend and fellow Vietnam veteran Kerry, noting the candidate's inconsistencies and what McCain considers an unrealistic view of the powers of diplomacy. At the campaign's request, he even made a second visit to the press cabin of Air Force One to cry foul at Kerry's mention of the Vice President's gay daughter. "He was there whenever we needed him," said a Bush staff member days before the election, grateful that the alliance had held, "and thankfully, nobody lost any limbs...
Ever since then, however, the Huskies have been crying foul play over the decision...