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Tuesday, January 29, 2008 12:00 AM

Tossing (in) the old pigskin

On the day of their boss's most important primary contest, Rudy Giuliani's advisors find time for some football.

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Tuesday, January 29, 2008 01:23 PM

Nerf

That sums it all up. Gulliani, the Nerf candiadte.

Tuesday, January 29, 2008 01:26 PM

Alex, please don't forget . . .

(By the way, I'd normally refrain from stepping on my own joke, but not in the service of self/Salon-promotion, and I should take this opportunity to mention that I'll be here all night blogging the results from and coverage of the Florida primary, so be sure to stop by if you're looking for information on that.)

― Alex Koppelman

While you are at it, and as hard as it may be . . . don't forget to report Hillary's win here in Florida. The party has snubbed us enough, please don't you do the same thing.

About Rudy . . . who really cares at this point?

Tuesday, January 29, 2008 01:48 PM

Game over, Giuliani

Every time I hear about Jon Voight being involved in Giuliani's campaign, I channel "Seinfeld," and George Costanza with "Jon Voight's car" and the gnawed-on pencil. Too amusing.

I hope one of those Giuliani advisers plans to put that football up for auction on eBay -- "Giuliani's Going-Nowhere Campaign Football Thrown by Jon Voight." Or at least some enterprising soul with a Nerf on hand.

Tuesday, January 29, 2008 02:29 PM

New War Room

Maybe its my computer/monitor, but the text and formatting for this column is way too small and hard to read. I didn't change anything on my settings...

Tuesday, January 29, 2008 04:19 PM

To be fair....

Shouldn't you mention that at the last I heard, Giuliani couldn't afford to pay those working for his campaign? Not sure if this includes his top advisors, but I wouldn't be surprised.

Wednesday, January 30, 2008 08:57 PM

Skipping primaries?

"the Giuliani campaign forwent the early primaries"?

I suppose it's moot now that he's dropped out of the race, but the idea that he skipped the early primaries is a myth propagated by his campaign. He tried, in all those states, and gave up early when it became clearly a lost cause. The myth was intended to preserve some aura of electability. Hard to believe this guy was the frontrunner not long ago.

Most of all, I think all this shows the bankruptcy of the horse-race media coverage. Even here in War Room I think we hear more about who is leading than we do about the candidates' positions on the issues.

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