I find HRC spokesperson Howard Wolfson completely offputting

This is NOT about HRC herself. It is narrowly and specifically about this guy, who is her chief spokesperson.

I know he has reasonably good, long term Dem credentials. He's probably a pretty nice guy.

But, he's awful, in my opinion, on teevee. He seems surly. He seems unsympathetic. He seems dogmatic.

He needs to seem cheerier and brighter. He looks like a thug, really. With a hint of Ari Fleischer.

Ari Fleischer at least knew how to smile for the camera.

Hillary lent him to Lamont, and for some reason Lamont took a vacation. And he quit talking about the war. And Swanny did not get heard much.

See my post above.

Also...
http://www.democraticmedia.org/jcblog/?p=101

"The folks at the Glover Park Group—who last year helped conduct a stealth campaign to aid Rupert Murdoch—are now assisting Sen. Ted Stevens wreck the U.S. electronic media system. Stevens’ Commerce Committee released a poll yesterday slamming “onerous Net Neutrality regulations.” The Verizon-paid for poll illustrates how desperate Sen. Stevens and his phone/cable monopoly allies are (nothing about Verizon’s sponsorship is cited in the release or the poll—something the Commerce Committee should apologize to the public for).

Stevens and company can’t really speak about the substantive issues involving Internet Freedom—because they lose. So Stevens and allies now appear to be hanging their argument supporting a closed Internet on a poll finding that only “very few registered voters are familiar with the issue of network neutrality.” As if the lack of public awareness about an important policy issue means something is wrong with it! Hello. Has the Senator been swallowing those tubes, instead of using them to get his talking points from the Glover Park Group flackery shop?

Now, to the “bipartisan” Glover Park Group (which did the poll with Public Opinion Strategies). Aren’t we tired of Democrats who take the big bucks and the public interest be damned? This poll was written to help phone companies scuttle policies designed to provide community oversight of electronic media. The poll should come with a warning: “this is a political tool.” That Stevens, Glover Park, and Public Opinion would hold it up as some objective measure is a sad joke. It’s a lobbying love letter for Verizon, AT&T, BellSouth and the USTA. It asks questions about network neutrality purposely designed to undermine it as an issue. Perhaps that’s why the poll doesn’t reveal who funded it. Such well-known Democratic operatives as Howard Wolfson, Joe Lockhart, and Carter Eskew run Glover Park. In 2005, the group helped Rupert Murdoch organize a campaign designed to keep bringing in extra cash for his Fox TV empire. Press reports say they also have worked for big cable companies as well."

http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/7/30/142232/789

This group may explain why we are still stuck with that medicare drug bill fiasco.

And more on it.

http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/6/17/113759/317

When he was on after the debate...

Mandy Greenwald is good...very professional...Wolfson seemed unprepared for the questions he was being asked