You have to give it to campaign reporters–they keep finding new ways to make campaign coverage even worse.
Take this piece in USA Today, which ran in the print edition (3/27/14) under the headline:
Buzz Builds as Rice Pitches for GOP
Some Ask: Will She Run for President?
So what’s going on here? Reporter Martha Moore sets things up:
She’s a former secretary of State who gives a great speech, has a well-known smile and is a hot political property: making campaign ads, rallying the party faithful and, on Wednesday, keynoting a $1,000-a-plate Washington fundraiser.
Cue the 2016 speculation: Is Condoleezza Rice acting like a future candidate?
Really? Moore comes up with one bizarre defense of this speculation:
Others have sparked more speculation based on less. One trip to Iowa or New Hampshire and she’d be at the top of the list of potential presidential candidates. There is no clear front-runner for the Republican nomination for 2016, and the GOP has emphasized its desire to appeal to women and minority voters.
That’s a pretty low standard, but Moore hints that there could be something more to this:
She also mentioned she likes the idea of the nation electing a female president. “I think it would be terrific. I really look forward to that day,” she told Parade magazine earlier this month.
Well, now that is intriguing…but USA Today waits until near the end of the piece to tell readers what else Rice said in the same interview:
Unlike Hillary Clinton, another highly visible ex-secretary of State, Rice has said she has no plans to run for any office. “You’re not going to get that chance” to vote for her for president, she told Parade.
Oh–now you tell us. So if the question is “Will Condi Rice run for president?” and you know that her on-the-record answer to this is no…. Well, what’s the point of this piece again? Remember: Every pointless story that runs in a newspaper takes up space that could have been used to actually inform people.
Hello everybody, here every one is sharing these kinds of familiarity, thus it’s nice to read
this website, and I used to visit this blog every day.
Yeah, but what’s the point of informing people in a plutoocracy?
Well, what’s the point of this piece again?
To let us know that is she against running, until she if for running, until she is against running for, or perhaps running against four….
When the own the information, they can twist it all they want.
Does not matter if she runs or rests; America is not going to change. Obama came with lot of Hoop la on the big bold promise of change, Here we are stuck with the same old America which Regan, Bush, Clinton left for us; rather Obama made it worst by becoming President whose record shows that he punished most of the whistleblowers or truth tellers than any president. in history.
My comment from yesterday still is awaiting moderation.
Here it is minus the links –
RICE 2016. Condoleezza Rice for President of the United States of America
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(also links to Condoleezza Rice for President Video Playlist)
“Condoleezza Rice for President. Join this group of supporters from everywhere on the world wide web.”
“Condoleezza Rice for President. Join this group of supporters from everywhere on the world wide web.”
Rice for President Yahoo Group
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(You may try clicking on “Peter Dow” to use this link.)
OMG, how AWESOME would it be if she ran for President?! 1)female, 2)black, AND 3)Republican. Cue images of the conservative brain exploding. They wouldn’t know what to do! Now THAT would be a popcorn-grabber.