The Week in Blogs

I did a BloggingheadsTV segment with Bill Scher the other day. We talk about everything from CPAC to Bobby Jindal ...

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Reviewing Bobby Jindal

I'm quoted in Alex Mooney's latest CNN.com column on Bobby Jindal's response to President Obama's speech.

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Reid: Don't call it nationalization

As regular readers of ML&TN know, words matter.

Politicians know this, and attempt to use (as Frank Luntz might say) "words that work." So they call being for abortion, "pro-choice." Or they call privatizing social security "personal accounts" (this works both ways, folks).

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is now calling on the nationalization of banks -- but in an Orwellian move, he simply refuses to use that term ...

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On the Live Desk

I was on Fox's The Live Desk yesterday, talking about the "stimulus" bill...

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Q & A: Former McCain Blogger Michael Goldfarb

I have no idea how I missed this, but let me highly recommend to you this very interesting interview with former McCain blogger Michael Goldfarb.

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Obama Launches 'Charm Offensive'

Politico reports:

Using one of the world's most famous private residences as bait, President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama are unleashing a bipartisan charm offensive and exploiting every square inch of their new home to make friends and influence rivals. The social calendar suggests a return to the days of Camelot.

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Obama Uses 'Townhall's' to Sell Stimulus

Chris Cillizza notes that Obama has reverted back to the "townhall" format in order to sell his stimulus plan:

Why the town hall focus?

Phil Singer, a former communications aide to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, said that the series of town halls indicated that Obama's team has decided that the "'I feel your pain' strategy is the best way to sell the stimulus," an approach that necessitates "going to places that have been hardest hit by the recession."

For a president uniquely aware -- perhaps more so than any chief executive since Ronald Reagan -- of the power of television and the burgeoning power of YouTube and the Internet, the images that come out of town halls are hard to beat, said Allan Crow, a Democratic media consultant based in Atlanta.

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