Patterico Talks Sense into Bob Shrum
Kevin Roderick is correct: Friday night was the first time (to my knowledge) that I have been in a room with Bob Shrum.
He promised me that he would stop attacking Republicans with last-minute smear jobs. “Shrummie,” I says to him, I says, “don’t you feel guilty deep down inside, always using these late hits?” He had to agree. Apparently nobody had ever actually confronted him on the issue before.
And if you believe that . . .
Back in the real world, I had a chance to converse with Cathy Seipp, Amy Alkon, Jill Stewart, Bob Sipchen, and a couple of television industry guys named Mike Sullivan and Scott Kaufer (who invited me — thanks, Scott!). And I saw Kevin Roderick. Everyone was very nice, though they wanted to know why Michael Hiltzik thinks I’m like Josef Stalin. (My best explanation: he doesn’t like me, and he didn’t like Stalin.)
Too bad I won’t be able to go to these events regularly; I generally have to pick up my son from day care downtown, which I didn’t have to do on Friday. But it was fun to hang with the movers and shakers for a night — even if I didn’t really convince Bob Shrum that it was enough already with the late hits.
UPDATE: This is embarrassing. I think I mixed up Shrum with Bob Mulholland. Those Democratic consultants named Bob all run together in my mind. Sorry, Shrummie.
http://www.bestofrussia.ca/images/stalin-poster2.jpg
The text says “Thank you dear Stalin for a happy childhood!”
Stalin wuvs you!
Angry Clam (fa7fff) — 1/9/2006 @ 6:56 amTalk senese into Bob Shrum?!?!
You mean this idiot? ROFLMAO!
russ (769b82) — 1/9/2006 @ 7:27 amI think he feels guilty about the late hits because they haven’t yet worked once for him. He’s oh-fer in Presidential elections. Smearing a guy and then beating him might prove more acceptable.
v-man (3ac575) — 1/9/2006 @ 8:35 amAh, c’mon, there have to be more parallels than that. For example, Stalin hated Hitler; so do you. Stalin held political views that differed significantly from those of the Democractic Party in the US; so do you. AFAIK Stalin never visited Ethiopia; I’ll bet you haven’t, either. The list goes on.
Xrlq (816c74) — 1/9/2006 @ 8:48 amAnd Stalin would have even seen The Daily Kos as a Useful Idiot; so would you. 🙂
Dana (3e4784) — 1/9/2006 @ 11:02 am“Everyone was very nice, though they wanted to know why Michael Hiltzik thinks I’m like Josef Stalin.”
Stalin had a very nice head of hair even in his old age?
nk (47858f) — 1/9/2006 @ 12:33 pmWooo! You really stung him with that one, ‘Rico! You should tone down your acerbic rhetoric a bit there, don’t you think? 🙂
Psyberian (1cf529) — 1/9/2006 @ 4:08 pmWell, that’s one point for him.
Milhouse (3f7ff6) — 1/10/2006 @ 4:05 pmNot when it’s because he did like Trotsky.
Angry Clam (a7c6b1) — 1/10/2006 @ 4:14 pm