Governor Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania is kind of a doorknob.
Now, he said, the story will continue to dominate the media’s attention.
"They have never been in an executive position before," Rendell said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "The rule of thumb is whatever you did, say it and get it over with and make it a one-day story as opposed to a three-day story. Politicians are always misjudging the intelligence of the American people."
Is that so? Fascinating stuff, every word a golden sermon. Please, Ed, share with us more of your wisdom about how to do media damage control.
After an early version of this story was published online, Rendell called Politico expressing concern that the story conveyed a misleading impression.
"I want to be as clear as I possibly can," Rendell said. "I think the president-elect and his staff did nothing wrong, and don’t think they had anything to do with this."
He said the point he was making — echoing that of others on "Morning
Joe" — was one of how to tactically respond to an unfolding news story,
amid intense curiosity about any dealings between Obama's staff and
Blagojevich. "The best way to handle things like this is just get it
out," said Rendell, adding his prediction that the public would be
tolerant about any disclosures.
Putz.
Now my advice for helping to keep an idiotic thing like this from igniting the hydrogen in the moron-media blimp and thereby burning your party is to not flap your fucking gums about it on brainless cable gossip shows.
The 1990s taught certain Very Serious and Centrist Democrats absolutely nothing. I suppose the glamor and glitz and tremendous respect you win by going on "Morning Joe" and pushing forward GOP talking points is just too damn tempting to resist. Wheeeee.
Obama is not beyond criticism. But absolutely no worthwhile criticism of Obama is going to be aired out on cable television programs of the "Morning Joe" class. Or written about in the Politico. Or constructively delivered by Ed Rendell.