Hello boys and girls,
A couple days ago Marc brought to our attention Dean's plan for "re-regulation." Well, in Howard Kurtz's. latest Media Notes, Kurtz questions the abilities of Dean's phrase-maker. The problem here is that people in this country don't mind regulation, lots of people even want it. They just don't want you to call it that. As Kurtz notes, say you're protecting people from the greed of Wall Street, keeping water cleaner, and workplaces safer. People want these things. But when you say regulation, people think red-tape, and idle bureaucrats putting chairs up against doors. This "phrase-making" problem has been persistent, the most dramatic example being Dean's mistake of even bringing up the Confederate flag when he was talking about reaching out to disaffecting poor, white southern voters.
It just seems to me, probably because the Dean campaign is an insurgent campaign, that they don't have a lot of message discipline. Hopefully, if he gets the nomination, he can make-sure the entire campaign, including himself, can stay "on-message."
Now, for something interesting. Malcolm Jamal Warner, Theo Huxtible to those of you in the know, is slated to play a Mike Wilbon character opposite Jason Alexander's Tony Kornheiser character in the developing CBS sit-com based on Kornheiser's life.
The real Kornheiser has some interesting things to say about the stae of Patrick Ramsey, who reportedly may miss Sunday night's game in Miami. 
(I've been warning you guys about this for some time, but this Sunday is the night. Miami will don the orange jerseys, pictured on the right.)
Tony
