Word: msnbc
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...about his take on the situation, in the midst of widespread criticism and numerous calls for Spitzer’s immediate resignation. “Men don’t use their brains when it comes to something like this,” he said on a call to MSNBC. “They think with a different part of their body...And when people think with that organ of the body, they make these kind of really, really terrible mistakes.” Dershowitz declined requests to comment for The Crimson. Spitzer briefly addressed the public in a press...
...then something happened. From a distance it seemed that her charming, self-deprecating appearance on Saturday Night Live - and SNL's reprise of a debate skit in which MSNBC moderators gang up on her - might have changed the zeitgeist. "Do I really laugh like that?" she asked her doppelgänger Amy Poehler, whose Clinton laugh resembles Clinton's laugh only in its awkwardness. Poehler nodded, laughing, and Clinton's "Yeah, well ..." response seemed more spontaneous than anything she had done on the stump in a month of electoral massacres. If nothing else, SNL had tapped into the slow boil...
...seemed, for a few days before the New Hampshire primary back in January, that Clinton had belatedly discovered the importance of openness and humanity. There was the press conference she ended by giving MSNBC's Chris Matthews, one of her longtime media tormentors, a pat on the cheek. There were the near-tears. I expected she would continue in that successful vein, but her campaign was immediately hijacked by her husband, who disastrously held center stage for weeks. She clenched up again after that: Bill was all anyone wanted to talk about and she couldn't. Her February nosedive ensued...
...want synergy? You want meta-referentiality? Clinton got in a shot at the media. SNL got political validation--a sketch about debates becoming the central moment at a debate. MSNBC got guaranteed free publicity from media folks like myself who love to obsess on the importance of media. Everybody wins...
...theme: that Big Media has grilled her ceaselessly while going wobbly over hot, charismatic young Obama. (An often true argument, if undercut by the fact that the point was made for her by giant Big Media institution SNL.) And Cleveland was the perfect place to press the attack, since MSNBC has been the campaign's chief target, from Chris Matthews' criticisms of Clinton on Hardball to host David Shuster's remark that she "pimped out" daughter Chelsea on the campaign trail...