Wednesday November 27, 2024

With Stories Like This

With stories like this, it is hard for Israel to maintain its reputation among nations.  The baby had done no harm nor had his mother who was killed nor his brothers who also died.  The photo of the toddler inflames passions and revolts viewers. One asks how the IDF can justify harming innocent civilians and […]

Does It Matter?

Israel says its strike on a tent complex yesterday used highly accurate weapons. Still, a claimed 40 men, women and children died.  Does it matter the precision of bombs if innocent civilians are still killed?  Israel’s reputation as an armed bully hounding the Palestinian people is deepened with every attack like this.  With every civilian […]

Loss of Footing

The Washington Post is reporting that former President Trump is struggling in his campaign against Vice President Harris.  He hasn’t found a personal attack against her that resonates with his audiences.  His advisers are finding him undisciplined and low energy.  This helps Harris but sooner or later, Trump will find a groove and swing for […]

Slog

The presidential campaign has turned into a slog for the candidates.  It depends on ground level communications now — door knocking, events, hand-shaking, baby kissing.  Old fashioned politics.  The winner will be the one who organizes best.  Social media has a role but it is not definitive — not yet, anyway. Tweet This Post

The Trench Race

Political campaigns cost money — lots of it — and volunteers to do ground-pounding voter contact. It is interesting that the Harris-Walz ticket is ahead on both.  That doesn’t guarantee an election but it is a good sign.  Trump must be concerned or anyway, his strategists.  Political campaigns are communications on steroids for a one-day […]

Who’s Right? Doesn’t Matter.

There is a he-said he-said argument over Trump’s recent visit to Arlington National Cemetery.  The Defense department says Trump’s campaign operatives had no right to film Trump visiting a section of the cemetery.  Photographs are not permitted.  Trump’s people say they had permission to shoot and the DOD is wrong.  The standoff apparently resulted in […]

Inching Out

Vice President Harris is inching out to the media with her first sit-down interview yesterday.  According to press reports, it was ordinary and the only news was why it took her so long to do it.  The unanswered question is how long will it be before she does it again.  She is apparently afraid of […]

Will He Listen?

Hundreds of thousands of Israelis went on strike to protest the death of hostages at the hands of Hamas.  Their message to Netanyahu was to call a ceasefire and to negotiate the return of the remaining prisoners.  The unknown is whether Netanyahu is listening.  He seems dead set on the destruction of the terrorist group […]

Power

Power is being able to suppress a movie about oneself by intimidating distributors.  Trump has that ability.  It’s the opposite of Free Speech.   Tweet This Post

The Highest Kind Of PR

Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy conducted the highest form of public relations in his appearances and speech to Congress.  He was rallying support for the war effort.  He was thanking the US for its backing. He was laying down a marker of defiance to Russia.  In all these, he spoke a mixture of Ukrainian and English, but […]