Bush: His War Room & His TV Channel
Reported by Melanie - July 15, 2004 -
At 11:15 a.m. ET today (July 15, 2004), Fox News (as well as CNN and, I presume, MSNBC (that channel was "out" in my area temporarily at the time), began live coverage of John Kerry making a speech in Philadelphia before the annual convention of the NAACP. As I watched, all I could think of was an article I read yesterday in the New York Times.
The article, In Bush's War Room, the Gloves Are Always Off, by Jim Rutenberg, talks about how Bush campaign workers monitor every speech made by John Kerry, including every-day stump speeches. As they watch live (they won't say how they get live feeds for all the speeches), the team dissects the speech, sentence by sentence, and gathers material with which to refute or attack Kerry. Then, "within an hour or so, Mr. Bush's team, at the campaign's headquarters in a corporate office building in suburban Virginia, across the Potomac River from the White House, had sent a release via e-mail to hundreds of journalists, supporters and campaign surrogates."
COMMENT: Democrats do this too, but they don't have their own news outlet, as Republicans do in Fox News, to promote that message 27/7.
