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...first issue-free campaign, and without issues, we were left to ponder such pointless dichotomies as age vs. middle age, wounded right hand vs. groping one, brunet power wife vs. blond. When these palled, as they inevitably did by late August, there was nothing to think about except the peculiar fact that a D.C. dominatrix had been one of the first 12 people on earth to learn about life on Mars. That and the important finding that the macarena is a remarkably effective way of rousing people from life-threatening stupor...
Having closely followed the making of the President since 1956, I am appalled by the dramatic rise of pointless hoopla during the national political-party conventions and the increasing lack of debate on important issues. The nadir was reached by the disgusting staging of a public-relations film by the G.O.P. It showed Dole in a small Italian town near where he had been seriously wounded in April 1945. This injury does not make him a war hero but a war casualty, and is certainly no guarantee that 50 years later he'll have a successful presidency...
...Republicans' Stepford convention made for a spiritless, sadly anachronistic TV show. To their credit, the TV reporters tried hard to find blemishes in the happy face being presented, searching for any stray Buchanan delegate (or Buchanan himself) willing to complain. Usually, though, the displays of journalistic independence were pointless. NBC aired a few minutes of Kay Bailey Hutchison's speech on Tuesday night, then broke away so anchorman Tom Brokaw could summarize the juiciest lines for analyst Tim Russert ("She goes on to say that 'it's time to wake up to President Clinton and his high-taxing, free-spending...
...blooded right, Nixon's defeat that November proved it was pointless to court the centrist vote already seduced by Kennedy. Even before J.F.K. moved into the White House, the New Right began remaking the G.O.P. in its own image. In 1960 Goldwater published The Conscience of a Conservative, an outline of his beliefs and his game plan for victory that eventually sold 3.5 million copies. For Buchanan, who read it as a student at Georgetown University, it was "our New Testament." Immediately after the election, activist F. Clifton White organized a meeting of 32 businessmen, lawyers, oilmen and bankers...
...downside was a pointless parade of contributing pundits, who appeared in mix-and-match threesomes and contributed little but air-filling babble, and the channel's nonstop, near evangelical promotion of the Internet, where it has a Website. The partnership of NBC and Microsoft holds the promise of creating a hybrid form of news delivery on both TV and the Internet, but this Website has so far been disappointing...