The Today Show considers Bob Shrum an expert?
Posted by Moonage on 19 Apr 2006 | Tagged as: The Media
I read this on RealClearPolitics:
This morning on The Today show, Bob Shrum offered some advice to help President Bush rebound from his slump in the polls. If Shrum was trying to be serious, he continues to demonstrate he still has no idea why his candidate lost the 2004 election. If he was being mischievous in the hope Bush might go crazy and listen to him, he laid out a perfect plan for Bush to destroy his presidency.
Now, the first thing I did was ask myself, Why was Bob Shrum on The Today Show? Now, although Bob Shrum has been involved in about everything the Democrat has done in the last 35 years, the winners have ignored Bob Shrum. It’s referred to as “the Shrum Curse”. However, I think it’s a little more than that. The guy obviously is very bad at what he does. So, why would The Today Show accept an offer from Bob Shrum to give advice to anyone? Parody? Satire? Beats me. Needless to say, the response has been fairly overwhelming that Shrum’s advice isn’t very good. I think the fact anyone actually felt compelled to critique Shrum’s advice in the first place is a waste of time. I’m not going to. I knew it would be bad. The shocker, and the story, would have been if it had been anything but wrong.
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on 26 Apr 2007 at 1:16 pm 1.Moonage Political Webdream » Playing Oddball with Chris Matthews said …
[...] Shrum is with will lose. Shrum’s record of being wrong led me to even enjoy a quip about him being on The Today Show and giving Bush advice when all seemed completely hopeless. Bush ignored his advice, his ratings [...]