Besides, isn’t the president too busy to watch Fox? Even Democrats have fretted publicly that Obama may have bitten off more than he can chew by trying to fix an economic crisis, wage a multi-front war and fix health care all at once. Where does he find time to worry about Sean Hannity?…
I shared a stage with Anita Dunn at a post-election debriefing last December. She is smart, seasoned and savvy, and we agreed on about 90 percent of everything we discussed. We spoke about the challenges of balancing the needs of the press with our ability to drive a message. Obviously, she did a better job at striking this balance than we did. Anita and I shared horror stories about some of the same reporters (off the record, of course!), and when I mentioned the challenges of dealing with the media’s excitement over Obama’s candidacy, she said, “Imagine having a whole network against you.”
I was struck then, as I am now, that a team with so much going for it is sweating the small stuff.
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