Word: rnc
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Maybe the DNC should cut Alex Castellanos a nice fat check. After all, the GOP adman has produced a TV spot that's eliciting torrents of high-level sweat over at RNC headquarters (and, no doubt, torrents of jokes for Jay Leno and David Letterman...
...RNC, disavowing any foreknowledge of the ad's little surprise, will be given the benefit of the doubt - at least for the moment. And perhaps that's not as ridiculous as it sounds: It's possible to imagine the RNC advertising staff watching Castellanos's ad with a distracted eye, and missing the reference altogether. (Of course, that line of reasoning makes it difficult to explain how the split-second flash was visible to a Seattle television viewer; the registered Democrat called the Gore campaign to register surprise over the ad's content...
...live with almost anything," Police Commissioner John Timoney has said, describing his strategy for responding to this week's RNC-related protests...
...violence, and so far there hasn't been a hint of that. On Monday, it was puppetry and pageantry (and a lack of a permit), as the Kensington Welfare Rights Union - a Philly-based organization for the poor and homeless - gathered at City Hall for a trek to the RNC site at the First Union Center in South Philadelphia. Thousands of single-file protesters started down four miles of Broad Street. Placards and banners alternated with chanters ("Hey, hey! Ho, ho! Poverty has got to go!"); a 13-wheelchair convoy of accessible housing advocates; and a giant elephant head with...
...Tuesday, when the Philadelphia Direct Action Group is likely to launch its RNC protests, Timoney's velvet-glove approach may be more severely tested. After all, PDAG is an intentionally decentralized amalgam of "affinity groups," and the group that those in local government and law enforcement consider to be purely anarchistic. Certainly, PDAG's stated mission to disrupt the conference has convention boosters on edge. If, as has been the case so far, no conflict happens in the streets and no surprises happen inside the convention center, local news anchors will have no choice but to continue following around visiting...