...wildly paraphrasing Krugman in his piece today, Swagger vs. Substance. He makes this salient point among many others:
Let's face it: whatever happens in Thursday's debate, cable news will proclaim President Bush the winner. This will reflect the political bias so evident during the party conventions. It will also reflect the undoubted fact that Mr. Bush does a pretty good Clint Eastwood imitation.
But what will the print media do? Let's hope they don't do what they did four years ago.
But alas, hope, as we well know, is not a plan. Does this call for a preemptive strike in the spirit of PBJ Diddy's diary here against CNN?
Here's more Krugman