News Flash: Bush's Campaign Finds Platform on Local Radio - NYT

[otohara]

Tell us something we don't know about Bush? More sorry ass reporting for the so called "paper of record".

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — President Bush's campaign officials mostly avoid television programs like "Hardball With Chris Matthews," "Inside Politics" or "Face the Nation."

There will be a time for politics, they say.

But on one recent Thursday, Terry Holt, Mr. Bush's campaign press secretary, called in to "The Marc Bernier Show," at 1150 and 1490 on the AM dial here, to talk extensively about how the president wanted to help orange growers and would not be satisfied until "every American who wants a job can have a job."

It was one of several telephone visits Mr. Holt made to radio stations in the past few weeks, though he has not appeared on a national television program since he started his job in early November.

While the Bush campaign maintains a low profile on the national campaign stage — content for now to watch the Democrats beat on one another — it is aggressively working the expansive hustings of Republican-friendly talk radio, priming the grass roots faithful for battle next year.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/29/politics/campaigns/29RADI.html?hp

[mot78]

1. Damnit! I hate the SCLM!

Why doesn't the NY Times go ahead and make Safire their editor?