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Funny what a week under the klieg lights of national scrutiny will do to a man. Take New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani and his ubiquitous sidekick, Police Commissioner Howard Safir, for example...
Republicans like to chest-thump that they follow their conscience, not the polls. But it's just as likely that they're following the klieg lights out of their post-impeachment media wilderness. The Gonzalez family--who took to crossing the street to the media encampment calling out "It's time to go live," the way other families announce "It's time for dinner"--ran an enviable press operation. The loopy, frequently hospitalized Marisleysis was hysterical over supposedly doctored photos of a smiling Elian but savvy enough to overshadow the Attorney General's press conference with her guided tour through...
...campaign will try to grab the attention of state voters with its first television ad campaign. At Sunday's event, campaign staffers set up a camera behind a table of youthful Keyes supporters. They turned on a Klieg light when their candidate stepped to the podium. At the same moment, the Keyes supporters stood up, waved their large signs, and cheered loudly, creating the effect of an audience-wide accolade...
...Ventura was at Soldiers' Field, CNBC's crew was busy turning the ARCO Forum into a television soundstage, complete with klieg lights and cameras on cranes...
...CHATTERING CLASSES: Oh, shut up. And turn those klieg lights off. The need to fill airtime by the All-Scandal, All-the-Time networks grew so great that second- and third-tier pundits like me could command a limo. The pressure to top one's colleagues led to premature enunciation of the I word (most conspicuously by George Stephanopoulos to prove his independence) and predictions that the patient had only days to live. When Americans overwhelmingly sided with the President, the press attributed it to falling morals. Virtue pundit Bill Bennett turned on his natural allies--ordinary folk and Billy...