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Tunnel Vision
It dawns on me, blogging this from inside the bowels of the Fleet Center media filing zone, that I'm going to be way less informed about what actually gets said at this convention than I would be if I just stayed at home and watched CNN. With my grade two (out of five) purple credential, I can't get anywhere from which one can see anything. Instead, I sort of wander around running into journalists I know from DC and griping with them about how confusing the set-up for everything is here. On the plus side, tomorrow and Wednesday mornings I'll be going to some interesting-sounding briefings where I ought to learn a thing or two about substantive issues.
For now, my political analysis: The Democratic Party has never been so united before! Exclamation point! Actually, people are pretty pysched: They think Kerry's going to win, and I think they're right. But all bets are off if there's a terrorist attack. . . .
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Matt -
Go back to your hotel room and blog while watching the New England Cable News network. I think they might be doing continuous coverage for the whole convention!
Posted by: oodja | Jul 26, 2004 5:25:02 PM
or go back to your college buddy's attic apartment, as it were...
Posted by: d. | Jul 26, 2004 5:40:56 PM
I (barely) got credentialed to sit on my couch and watch C-Span nonstop for the next four days. I'll be blogging about it too. Maybe I'll throw a party and complain I couldn't get in and instead blog about it. Who knows.
Posted by: dstein | Jul 26, 2004 5:44:42 PM
I got credentialed to park my ass in front of the compooter.
Posted by: praktike | Jul 26, 2004 5:49:43 PM
Not too mention, your posts would be so much more interesting. With all the excitement about bloggers! getting credentials! to the conventions! nobody stopped to think about us, the blog-reading public. Writing about conventions really isn't much less deadly-dull when it's lightly edited and in real time.
Between this and the Fafblog/Poorman hiatus, my blog enjoyment is off by a good 70 percent....
Posted by: lemuel pitkin | Jul 26, 2004 5:53:03 PM
Have you seen Oliver Stone and Robert Downey jr?
Posted by: x | Jul 26, 2004 6:06:16 PM
i'm telling you, go buy and read norman mailer's miami and the siege of chicago and relive the exciting conventions of 1968 through the eyes and pen of mailer near the peak of his game....
Posted by: howard | Jul 26, 2004 6:41:08 PM
Hey,guys ,all the good stuff is over at the TAP Convention site. Tomasky gets into it with Alterman, Yglesias eats a sausage sandwich and meets Neil Cavuto, sort of. Can you imagine, Neil Cavuto! Be still, my beating heart.
Posted by: bob mcmanus | Jul 26, 2004 7:09:56 PM
Did you guys see Tipper's cold weather indicators?
Posted by: Carleton | Jul 26, 2004 8:24:47 PM
Bloggers aren't swing voters, and blog readers aren't either. Don't expect respect, Matt, from the campaigns.
Posted by: epistemology | Jul 26, 2004 9:44:12 PM
Matt, just don't say that Kerry is inevitable.
Posted by: Mac Thomason | Jul 26, 2004 10:00:27 PM
Neil Cavuto! And to think that I was holding on to my weak-ass "saw Bruce McCulloch from Kids in the Hall at South by Southwest in 1996" memory. Of course, one could theoretically see Cavuto's balloon-head from space.
I'm getting all of my convention fill by watching the Houston Astros strand base-runners at an astounding pace against the pitiful Arizona Diamondbacks.
Posted by: norbizness | Jul 26, 2004 10:08:35 PM
Matt could totally kick Kos' ass mano to mano baby, I'm just sayin'
Posted by: Al | Jul 26, 2004 11:36:42 PM
I have spent the last several months trying to propagate a "Kerry is inevitable" meme. I'm glad that history requires that Mr. Yglesias not say that, because if it took off, he'd probably get all the credit, being the 2-star credentialled (!) blogger that he is.
Posted by: Adam Kotsko | Jul 26, 2004 11:39:11 PM
Of course, the really big news from the convention is the public emergence of Duncan Black . . .
Posted by: rea | Jul 27, 2004 12:08:05 AM
I'm not convinced, should there God forbid be a terrorist attack in the U.S., that Bush will benefit. One of his arguments for reelection is that he has made the U.S. safer. One attack doesn't disprove this, but viscerally people may think that it disproves it.
Posted by: Andrew Boucher | Jul 27, 2004 1:17:35 AM
Is there a pool for how long Matt is able to tolerate sitting next to Mickey Kaus?
http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=Convention#56
Posted by: Swopa | Jul 27, 2004 1:26:02 AM
My wife raised the possibility that "Duncan Black" is just another pseudonym. How do we really know? We need to get this Duncan fellow in the same room as Sidney Blumenthal and Gene Lyons to rule out the obvious possibilities.
Posted by: Walt Pohl | Jul 27, 2004 1:52:55 AM
Good grief, one would think that a Harvard and Dalton grad would have elite access ...
Posted by: Jon Meltzer | Jul 27, 2004 2:13:45 AM
Gee, that's too bad...I, on the other hand, might be prominently featured in the background of a Biff Henderson/Michael Moore interaction, Tuesday (I guess, too late for Monday)...
Posted by: DonBoy | Jul 27, 2004 2:30:42 AM
Please don't start making predictions MY. You'll jinx it.
Posted by: Royko | Jul 27, 2004 2:53:05 AM
"My wife raised the possibility that 'Duncan Black' is just another pseudonym. How do we really know?"
Well, here's one indication (via Kevin Drum):
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=226419
And here's another (scroll down for bio):
http://mediamatters.org/etc/about.html
Posted by: rea | Jul 27, 2004 7:41:25 AM
"I'm going to be way less informed about what actually gets said at this convention than I would be if I just stayed at home and watched CNN" So THAT's what a conditional counterfactual is.
Posted by: HarveyB | Jul 27, 2004 8:17:30 AM
If an attack comes it becomes a huge negative for the administration. They would have failed to keep us safe. Having been surprised by one 9-11 the dems seem ready to handle a second. The speeches Monday night all aluded the lack of responsibility and accountability of the current administration in our last crisis and to the reality of their culpability in any new crisis.
Posted by: patience | Jul 27, 2004 8:51:07 AM
Yeah, and isn't "Duncan Black" way more honkyish than anyone expected? How white-bread can you get? At least his wife is Latino, right?
Posted by: Zizka | Jul 27, 2004 2:10:07 PM
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