of peace, waging peace. i m talking about create ago moral imply. that s what matters. the conversation i m having with the american people, not this you know, when you re in new hampshire like i am, i m very clear it s what happening in the minds of people in new hampshire, people in iowa, what s happening in the minds of people in south carolina, nevada and california. that s where this campaign is, and for those of us who are actually in the campaign, that s where you keep your attention. not what i call the political media industrial complex. that s not what politics should be about. it should be about the conversation that the american people are having. people are ready for a deeper conversation than just a horse race, and i feel i m being heard. it sounds like in the case of jay inly, i hear you bringing about stuff to the conversation, but i don t hear you talking about winning? how do you know? i absolutely am talking about
or whether her drinking a beer in her kitchen was sufficiently authentic. or whether because she didn t run in 2016 she s missed her moment. now as someone in the business of covering and analyzing american politics, i am genuinely sympathetic to the ways in which the insatiable demands for content means a fair amount of shallow quick takes on optics and electability, what have you, but i want to offer some advice to you, the viewer and voter and really out loud to myself as a kind of new year s resolution, as we enter the presidential campaign. ignore that nonsense. seriously. 2016 represented the political media industrial complex addicted to the spectacle and personal drama and it is our job, all of our job, to do better this time around. so, while there will be plenty of reasons to legitimately scrutinize the political successes and failures of various candidates, their messages, strategies, approaches, inconsistencies, what should count most for us doing the covering and for you
and voter and really out loud to myself as a kind of new year s resolution, as we enter the presidential campaign. ignore that nonsense. seriously. 2016 represented the political media industrial complex addicted to the spectacle and personal drama and it is our job, all of our job, to do better this time around. so, while there will be plenty of reasons to legitimately scrutinize the political successes and failures of various candidates, their messages, strategies, approaches, inconsistencies, what should count most for us doing the covering and for you out there make bing the decisions about who to support and vote for ultimately is what the candidate s world view is, what their platform calls for concretely, how they ve conducted themselves in the past as a window into how they might be in the future, and what we can best find out about their mettle and their judgment. who will they fight for, what will they fight for? can they be trusted to do what they say? everything else is noi
stevenson, columnist for bloomberg view associate professor at the ford school university of michigan and former chief economist at the obama labor department, and mom to the 3-week-old oliver, congratulations, that s really awesome. all right, it has been five days since sandy came ashore on the east coast as a post-tropical cyclone, the exact location of landfall didn t much matter because it was a 1,000-mile wide storm. at least 109 people are said to have died in the u.s. and another 60 were killed in the caribbean. as of this morning 2.9 million customers remain without power across 15 states and the washington, d.c. the economic losses are nearing $50 billion. flooding of new york subways and commuter train tunnels and loss of business accounts for much of that estimate. with an election just a few days away the political media industrial complex briefly
i want to talk about the politics of it. because i thought the response to chrissy s actions on the right and generally in the media i thought were fascinating. i maybe i m alone in this. i didn t think he seemed to be doing anything out of the ordinary. it seemed to me like this was more or less politics as usual. that the president when there s a disaster-stricken area the president goes and the governor and they go look at the damage and even from different parties they put them aside for the moment. and people freaked out. and i think the freak-out to me highlighted how much there s been this norm created under republican party of just total implkable opposition at all times so that christie seemed like a betrayal. the other argument is that christie really has been going out of his way to throw mitt romney under the bus. i m curious what you think about it. i ll take a shot. you suggested the political media industrial complex ground to a halt. that s ridiculous. the political