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In Trouble With Ken Blackwell
Yes, I use Twitter, but it would never occur to me to run a campaign based on it. And I probably wouldn't use Twitter to project my quotable self, but then again, it appears our own contributor, Dave Weigel, feels differently. From his report on the RNC debate yesterday:
Blackwell, leaning back in his chair and speaking slowly, was as grim and confident. “When Ken Blackwell speaks,” commented American Spectator managing editor J.P. Freire, “I feel like I’m in trouble for something.” Blackwell framed the GOP’s problems as those of an ossified organization unable to reap the benefits of its good ideas.
Well, that's all in good fun. Then I receive this:
CHILLING, PEOPLE. THIS IS CHILLING. I NEED A MEDIA SHIELD LAW PASSED FORTHWITH.
No wonder Blackwell was so proud of his Facebook friend count. These are people he chides into submission. You haven't heard the last of me, Ken Blackwell.
J. Peter Freire is contributing editor of The American Spectator. Freire first came to the Spectator as an intern and editorial assistant under a journalism fellowship from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. Since then, he has written for the New York Times, Reason, and Human Events. Prior to returning to The American Spectator, he was editor of Brainwash, an online journal of opinion from America's Future Foundation, worked for the Evans-Novak Political Report, and researched and wrote for the New York Times. Freire studied English Renaissance literature and political science at Cornell University, where he served as senior editor and columnist at the Cornell Review. He is also a 2008 Phillips Foundation Journalism Fellow and the CPAC 2009 Journalist of the Year.
You can reach his Twitter page by clicking here, or follow him @JPFreire.