| Well, lordy, lordy. I may have to take back al those nasty things I've been saying about the New Haven Register. Their headline today gets it exactly right.
Mark Pazniokas of the Courant apparently couldn't ignore Schlesinger, but also couldn't resist trying to marginalize him.
Andy Warhol was almost right, except that in the U.S. Senate race, everybody gets 17 minutes of fame - even the neglected Republican nominee, Alan Schlesinger.
Still, he had the good sense to continue...
With a forceful debate performance, Schlesinger reminded voters, the media and possibly his own party Monday that Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman and Ned Lamont are not replaying their Democratic primary.
Meanwhile, the newspaper of record continues doing its best to peddle the little Joe David vs. Greenwich Goliath story line. The headline on the edition deliverede to my door this morning reads, "Lieberman and Lamont Turn Debate To Home Front." There's a more accurate head on the online version.
Schlesinger makes his appearance in the second graph as the inevitable "little-known Republican." Well, duh! When every major papaer in the region pretends you don't exist, of course you're going to be "little known" by people who foolishly rely on those papers for what passes for "news" these days.
Finally, Shelley Sindlund of Fox 61, who is IMHO the best political reporter in the state, nailed it in her report on the debate on last night's 10 o'clock news.
Update: More commentary from bluestater. |
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