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November 03, 2006
Hotline After Dark -- Reynolds The Realist?
There was still some John Kerry talk last night but other races dominated the coverage. Plus lots of pundits were on the tube to give their predictions:
- Brian Williams anchored the "Nightly News" from TN and profiled the SEN race.
- Sen. Jim Talent (R-MO) was in the "Situation Room."
- LG Michael Steele (R-MD) was in the "Situation Room."
- CNN's Crowley profiled IL 06.
- FNC's Cameron looked at the competitive SEN races.
- TN SEN's Bob Corker (R) was on "Hannity & Colmes."
- "Special Report" and "On the Record" has pieces on NV GOV.
Rep. Tom Reynolds (R-NY) was in the "Situation Room."
On his race: "It's a close race. Probably a lot of variables. New York, particularly in Buffalo, we've got a local county situation under a control board. We've got circumstances of a election where we do not have a strong top of the ticket as we've had incumbent George Pataki running. We've probably had early questions on Foley. All of that kind of in play just means it's what Buffalo politics is about. It's a spectator sport right behind the Bills and the Sabres."
On the Foley situation: "There wasn't word there were inappropriate exchanges and that is exactly it. Many of the Democrats that were working in alliance with my opponent tried to combine all these instant messages and e-mails into one. There are two distinct actions I took. The first was when Rodney Alexander talked to me about overly friendly e-mails, that a page he had sponsored had received, but his parents were aware and they were professionals and they did not want the privacy of their son affected and not to do anything about it. I still took that to the speaker of the House -- a constitutional officer, a second in line to the presidency, because I had access and the ability to talk to the speaker. When you look at the second incidence, that's on Friday, September 29th, when ABC News released these despicable, deplorable e-mails that Foley admitted that he had sent. At that point, we moved forward, very quickly, to ask and get Mark Foley's resignation from Congress and that is the difference. Once that became public, that any of us were aware, within hours, Mark Foley had resigned from Congress" (CNN, 11/2).
THE 411 ON BUSH
Ex-WH CoS Andy Card played "Hardball" last night and answered a lot of personal questions about Pres. Bush, such as what time he gets to work in the morning.
Card: "Before 9/11, he used to show up at 7:00 at the Oval Office. After 9/11, he showed up at 6:45. Now, 15 minutes may not sound like much to you, but when I was the chief of staff and I had so much reading to do in the morning and I would show up at the office at 5:30 -- that extra 15 minutes of time that I lost because I had to go down and greet the president when he walked into the Oval Office was pretty tough."
MSNBC's Matthews: "Does he read the paper before he comes to work?"
Card: "He skims the newspaper. Laura read it, and sometimes Laura would read it to him or at least I could tell that she had."
Matthews: "Did he ever come into work with a bad mood because Maureen Dowd dumped all over him again in the New York Times?"
Card: "He didn't really read Maureen Dowd, but I think Laura did, and sometimes -- the president did not dwell on the editorial page or the op-ed page of any of the newspapers. He did look at the sports page, he looked at the front page. He had a good sense of what was going on."
Matthews: "Horoscopes? Did he do the horoscopes?"
Card: "He didn't do the horoscopes."
Matthews: "How about the comics?"
Card: "Sometimes the comics, but, you know, he was really into the sports page."
More Card: "Sometimes I would call his attention to an article or an op ed piece, if I thought it was pretty good. But, no, he did not dwell on it. Laura Bush, on the other hand, she consumes anything in print" (MSNBC, 11/2).
BLAST FROM THE PAST
Swift Boat's John O'Neill was on "Hannity & Colmes":
O'Neill: "I haven't made a career out of bashing Kerry. ... I do want to be clear ... that I'm appearing as an individual. Our group has not been active as a group for some time."
On Kerry's "botched joke": "I think, without question, he thought he was pulling off a joke that he thought was cute. I think the words that came out of his mouth were the words he intended to speak" (FNC, 11/2). [EMILY GOODIN]
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