There Was Indeed Blood

[SteppingRazor]

http://southflorida.metromix.com/politics/article/news/294954/content

In predicting projectile plasma in the presidential primary debate at FAU, one writer never guessed it would be coming from him.
By Dan Sweeney
January 29, 2008

The belly of the beast was a cafeteria at Florida Atlantic University. The school was kind enough to host a media dinner from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at its Centre Marketplace before last week's Republican presidential debate. The place was alive with old men in bad suits and young men in good ones — telling newspapermen from broadcasters is that easy. Occasionally, a dude in shorts and a wool cap or ripped jeans and a week-old beard walked by: a photographer or cameraman, of course. Several large televisions were showing MSNBC's Tucker, with former Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman's thin face spouting off about freedom the way the Dems talk about change.

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The media filing center hummed with whispered conversations as I ambled around, trying to find my reserved spot. Out of about 20 rows of tables, I was in the seventh row back. There is a careful pecking order to these things, from the Associated Press and Reuters in the front row to Time magazine and The New York Times in the second and some middle-school newspaper all the way in the back. The seat to my right was reserved for some guy from Germany's Der Spiegel, and the one next to him for Spain's El Pa's. To my left was a spot for something called Third Eye Media, then Zagat and finally two spots for another unknown quantity, Iron Mill News. Almost an entire row behind me was dedicated to Newsmax, the West Palm Beach-based national news service and magazine with a political angle just to the left of Pinochet. In front of me, seats were reserved for The American Spectator, National Review and another one for Newsmax. When the Newsmax people arrived, I made a mental note to keep my opinions to myself, lest I be torn apart by the rabid badgers of conservative thought. All it would take is one "universal health care may not be so bad," and no one would ever find the body. The Newsmax people would save my heart, so they could watch the guys from the Spectator and the Review fight over it.

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Sen. John McCain talked about households making their 2010 budgets and realizing that they're in trouble. But who the hell does that? When one of the moderators brought up McCain's recent line that he "doesn't really understand economics," McCain denied ever having said it but pointed out that his go-to guy on economic issues is former Sen. Phil Gramm, a man who, it has often been said, is despised even by his closest friends.

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[kimmerspixelated]

1. Oh, I'm sorry!

I've arrived at the wrong place. I thought this was a post about SWEENEY TODD.

[santamargarita]

2. Mortimer Snerd? Oh, John McCain

...hard to tell.