2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWTF happened to Pat Caddell?
I don't venture much into the sewer that is faux news, but flipped over this afternoon to find him raving on about skewed polls and how this attack on gop headquaters in NC was going to "move the needle". Shit this guy used to work for McGovern and Carter. Did not realize he has gone over to the dark side.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)he was a notable figure in HST's Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, 1972
if you haven't read it, put it at the top of your list of political books
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)journalist covering the primaries prescient enough to realize that McGovern was going to win against Muskie, because he rode the wave of new politics, organizing at a grass roots level, instead of going it the old way, by garnering what turned out to be meaningless endorsements of dinosaurs like Daley, and his fellow old boy network of senators and congressman, who didn't realize that their days of smoke filled room finagling were soon to end.
the other journos laughed at him all the way up until it became obvious that he was going to be the one (set up for slaughter, unfortunately, in the general)
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)One Bright Shining Moment: The Forgotten Summer of George McGovern. A great DVD!!
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)checking my library for it now
Old and In the Way
(37,540 posts)Damn shame he is not around to cover this campaign, with Ralph Steadman doing the illustrations. It could have been titled: "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Revisted - the 2016 Campaign." HST would need massive quantities of Ibogaine to make it through this nightmare!
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)for awhile
pineal gland extract!
such great memories
and Steadman has a bunch of scabrous trump cartoons out. I linked a few of them, along with his website a few weeks ago
Proud liberal 80
(4,167 posts)Are Fox News "Democrats"
Kahuna
(27,311 posts)Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)vi5
(13,305 posts)...as far back as the earliest days of Fox News.