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...debates, State of the Union messages, prime-time press conferences, not to mention terrorist attacks, hurricanes and wars in real time. But television also set off a chain reaction that transformed the very nature of politics. "This is the beginning of a whole new concept," said a very young Roger Ailes as he stage-managed Richard Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign. "This is the way they'll be elected forevermore. The next guys up will have to be performers." Television brought other changes as well. Suddenly, politicians were able to use televised advertising to communicate in a more powerful...
...Roger Ailes was right when he predicted at the beginning of the television era that in the future all politicians would have to be performers. But politicians are, for the most part, lousy performers.Their advisers are pretty awful at what they do too. In the absence of inspiration, they have fixed upon the crudest, most negative and robotic forms of communication. They've made moments like Robert Kennedy's in Indianapolis next to impossible...
...hung a five-spot on Columbia in the bottom of the first and Brunnig took it most of the way from there, prevailing tidily in the nightcap. After loading the bases with one out on a pair of walks and a hit batter, senior Chris Mackey and freshman Matt Rogers lined consecutive RBI singles to make it 3-0. Sophomore Taylor Meehan, replacing the injured captain Morgan Brown at shortstop, pushed across another run with a bunt single. Then, with Rogers, he executed a textbook double steal of second base and home—Roger scored—which advanced...
When I was young, becoming a major league baseball player seemed like a sure thing. I told anyone willing to listen that I was going to be the next Mike Piazza or Roger Clemens. It was not an unusual dream, and one I am sure I shared with any kid who ever played catch in the backyard with his father. But right around the age of 14, reality sank in: the trek to the big leagues seemed like an insurmountable mountain...
...religion, which is mysterious enough already without him putting ideas into people’s heads. No one gets excited anymore about thrillers featuring the big bad government and its science fiction technology. Guns that fire icicles? James Bond was already evading those things back when he was Roger Moore. But God? Start questioning the foundations of faith and we all cannot help but wonder...