February 27, 2007
Hotline After Dark -- The Excuse To Talk Gore
In the aftermath of Al Gore's Oscar, pundits tried to determine if they had a winner:
Politico's Allen: "If Senator Clinton and Senator Obama eat each other up, if for some reason there's a vacancy, a vacuum, an opening when it comes to the fall, voters are sick of the fantastic choices that they have on either side, I can definitely imagine the vice president making this move" ("Tucker," MSNBC, 2/26).
Pat Buchanan: "Obama has got to fade for Gore to move. He's got to be knocked down. And if he is knocked down, Gore should drive right in there, because then I think he could win" ("Scarborough Country," MSNBC, 2/26).
Ex-Rep. J.C. Watts: "I think there's two people ... that you ought to watch over the next two or three months, Newt Gingrich on the Republican side, Al Gore on the Democrat side. Now, you can't run a covert campaign. So, you need to be active in some way. We don't see any signs of Al Gore being active. However, I think the key is, if somebody stumbles on the Democrat side ... I think he may get in. I think it's a real possibility. The same thing -- John McCain on the Republican side, you see John stumbles, I think Newt probably takes a serious look at it" ("Situation Room," CNN, 2/26).
MSNBC's Carlson: "In some sense, the presidency almost seems too small for Al Gore at this point" ("Tucker," 2/26).
THE '08ers GET THEIR TV TIME IN
Bill Richardson played "Hardball" last night, where most of the discussion focused on the war on terror:
Asked if he likes "to go head-to-head with the tough guys," Richardson: "Yes, I do. And President Clinton used to send me to talk to Sudan, North Korea. We talked to Cuba. And we had success" (MSNBC, 2/26).
Ron Paul was on "Lou Dobbs Tonight":
On his vote against the war in Iraq: "I'm a stickler for the Constitution. I was annoyed because they wouldn't declare war. They thought it was important to go to war. The people's representatives should declare war, and they should fight it and get it over with and win. So I didn't like the way they went, and I didn't think we were ever threatened by Iraq" (CNN, 2/26).
GOTTA HAVE FAITH
Laura Bush was on "LKL."
Asked if Romney's faith should be an issue: "I don't think so. I mean I think that he is a very outstanding and a wonderful man with great character and a lot of great credentials. And so I think people's faith in the United States is their, certainly, you know, what it is. Each person has the right to choose whatever faith they want and it's a very important part of our country."
ONE JUROR OUT BUT LIBBY CASE GOES FORWARD
FNC's Angle: "The jury went right back to work in the Scooter Libby trial, after losing one of its members. The judge told both sides that one juror acknowledged that she might have been tainted over the weekend, leading some to conclude it was another juror who first raised the matter" ("Special Report," 2/26).
MSNBC's Shuster: "They can render a verdict with just 11. They just cannot go down to 10. And the fear that everybody has now is that as this goes along, if the jury is going to continue deliberating for several more days before reaching their verdict, if they were to lose another juror, then they would have to go back to one of the two alternates who have been sent home and simply been instructed, don't watch any sort of media coverage" ("Hardball," 2/26).
CNN's Todd: "It's unclear what kind of information the juror, who's now an arts researcher, was exposed to, but she has gone her own way before in this case" ("Lou Dobbs Tonight," 2/26).[EMILY GOODIN]
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