Toastmasters: Jennifer Rubin and I discuss Mitt Romney’s twin post-convention, MSM–aided death spirals on the latest Left Coast/Right Coast podcast:
We also discuss the Larger Picture, of course. … But I’m more intrigued by Rubin’s suggestion that the MSM’s occasional overexcited one-upping stampedes (“it looks like curtains for the Mittster“–New Yorker) only happen in the coverage of politics–not, say, in entertainment coverage, where competition for hits is just as intense (but where there are perhaps more mundane, yet reliable ways of getting them, and the publicists/handlers have more power). … Take it away, Richard Rushfield. …