Stan Greenberg has advised former President Clinton, former UK PM Tony Blair, Nelson Mandela, Israel’s Ehud Barak and others. He is one of those political lions inspired during the Bobby Kennedy era to join politics and who provides a lot of wisdom for the taking if you are willing to listen. His new book ‘Dispatches [...]
Bringing the People Along (Part 1)
Posted on 20 March 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Bobby Kennedy, Democrats Abroad UK, Dispatches from the War Room, Gingrich Revolution, Israel’s Ehud Barak, Nelson Mandela, New Labour, PM Gordon Brown, President Clinton, Rep. Rosa DeLauro – D-CT, Republicans, speech to Congress, Stan Greenberg, Tony Blair, Tories, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel
The Media vs. the Mid-Summer Doldrums
Posted on 02 August 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: A Mighty Heart, AARP poster child, accuracy, Alien vs. Predator, Angeline Jolie, Antigua, Antiguan murder rate worse than New York City, Argyll and Bute County, asking for serious advice, Batman, BBC Radio 5, beheaded by extremists, British couple murdered on honeymoon, bumped into steerage, Bush appointee, BushCheneyRove, Chancellor, Daniel Pearl, dumb remarks, Dunoon, Dustin Hoffman, economic spectrum, emergency descent, everyone be afraid, executed to perfection, fact-checker, fact-less attack ads, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, first killing of a tourist in 10-years, flip-flops, forced to exit an underground garage camera scrums, Gilligan, Ginger, global coming out trip, goaded into by McCain, Hancock, impeachment, innuendo, Isle of Bute, Ken Starr, Kung Fu Panda, looking Presidential, lurid headlines, Madeleine McCann, Malibu, Mary-Anne, McCain, mid-air fuselage tear, Monica Lewinsky, news cycle, newspapers, obama, ordinance, Page 1 horror, paparazzi, Paul O’Neil, Pepperdine University, President Clinton, presumptuous, proclaiming deepest sympathy, professor, Qantas, Rain Man, rapid decompression, Raymond, relegated to page nine below the fold, replica, rumour, savant, Scotland Yard, serious answers, serious meetings, Straight Talk Express, summer blockbuster, The Replacement Killers, The Waverly, turn lives upside down and sell newspapers, UK media, UK tabloid, unchecked, uppity, Wall Street darling, Wall Street Journal, world’s oldest steam paddle ship
It isn’t Alien vs. Predator, but it’s close. You thought that this summer’s blockbuster was Batman? Hancock? Kung Fu Panda? Nope. This summer the talking media heads have had little real work, so making it up as they go along seems the way to go.
We’ve seen befuddled AARP poster child John McCain’s repeated flip-flops, dumb [...]
















































