Except I can't see the baggage that would necessitate this.
And surely the fallout of getting caught arranging this (and since it involves people at multiple levels of two networks, the odds against it being pulled off without a real leak are pretty astronomical) would be worse than the fallout of the president simply working it into an actual inteview, wouldn't it?
He's saying something that practically everybody agrees with and something that is at odds with the view that Glenn Beck and Michelle Malkin and their ilk wnat to paint of him. There's just no percentage in setting up a tricky bankshot to "oops-leak" a statement that's pretty much beyond reproach to begin with.
I mean, as a polished party politico, he'd have to know... if he had planned this... that his paranoid nutbag enemies (and note I'm not putting you in that category) would think it was staged regardless. If it's not staged, that's inconsequential because they'll never find proof of what's not there, and without proof, the vast majority of people in the middle will right off the crazies as crazy.
(And if it's not staged, then none of this would have entered into consideration, because there was no consideration.)
The only thing I could see going different with an on the record statement is he probably wouldn't have said "guy's a jackass". But then, he did say that the officer who arrested Gates acted stupid or words to that effect on the record... which is a pretty clear example of how not everything he does is polished political calculation.
Basically, I think you undermine your case by pointing out that he's a polished party politico. I would take a rank amateur hack to do what you're saying this "appears to be".
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on 2009-09-19 06:11 am (UTC)And surely the fallout of getting caught arranging this (and since it involves people at multiple levels of two networks, the odds against it being pulled off without a real leak are pretty astronomical) would be worse than the fallout of the president simply working it into an actual inteview, wouldn't it?
He's saying something that practically everybody agrees with and something that is at odds with the view that Glenn Beck and Michelle Malkin and their ilk wnat to paint of him. There's just no percentage in setting up a tricky bankshot to "oops-leak" a statement that's pretty much beyond reproach to begin with.
I mean, as a polished party politico, he'd have to know... if he had planned this... that his paranoid nutbag enemies (and note I'm not putting you in that category) would think it was staged regardless. If it's not staged, that's inconsequential because they'll never find proof of what's not there, and without proof, the vast majority of people in the middle will right off the crazies as crazy.
(And if it's not staged, then none of this would have entered into consideration, because there was no consideration.)
The only thing I could see going different with an on the record statement is he probably wouldn't have said "guy's a jackass". But then, he did say that the officer who arrested Gates acted stupid or words to that effect on the record... which is a pretty clear example of how not everything he does is polished political calculation.
Basically, I think you undermine your case by pointing out that he's a polished party politico. I would take a rank amateur hack to do what you're saying this "appears to be".