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...lead Wednesday with shades of John McCain. In NYT he falls to the subhed, below "For GOP, a Night to Bolster Bush," but the story is quick to make John McCain's rebellion-free speech the most important bolstering. But they also call him "subdued." WP ("Heartily Endorses") and USAT ("Salutes") both headline McCain. WSJ continues its two-steps-away convention coverage with a contrarian history piece about how the GOP loves its military night, but remember - this is the first ticket in forever without a veteran on it. Bush and Cheney, the deferment boys - that's not a nice...
...USAT and WSJ all handle the lack of suspense in different ways, but the imminent GOP lovefest tops - and is splashed across - all papers. NYT and WP go with drumbeat stories, arriving in Philly with Dick Cheney and recounting, like barflies back from a vacation, what a strange trip the last day has been...
...USAT goes cover with a withering, funny and deeply reported story about the ooze of money and influence at these things, and then hits the hard notes with a nicely phrased "Coming to this cradle of the nation's history with an eye to rewriting their own, Republicans on Monday open a convention choreographed to give George W. Bush the most upbeat send-off of any GOP presidential candidate since Ronald Reagan ran for re-election...
...Best Deadpan Description of the GOP Demographic (USAT) "... a slew of regulated businesses will host a bash tonight honoring committee members at the studio where the television show American Bandstand originated in the 1950s. Dick Clark returns as emcee, and entertainment includes Frankie Avalon, Chubby Checker and Bobby Rydell. Philip Morris, the Investment Company Institute, the Edison Electric Institute, Prudential, Merrill Lynch and more than a dozen other companies with issues pending before the Commerce Committee will pick...
Slate's Scott Shuger found that although USAT led with the schoolyard shooting in Arkansas, there was other news out there. The NYT led with a green-card snafu at INS, and WP and LAT went with President Clinton's sounded-awfully-like-an-apology-but-wasn't remarks in Uganda over how the U.S. "wronged" Africa with the slave trade. Apparently the comments were impromptu, and are giving aides fits...