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Mitt Romney continues to surge as Floridians get set to vote in Republican primary?: Mike Bako on Newsradio 590 AM
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, Audio, Politics, Press Room on January 30, 2012
Mike Bako breaks down what to expect from Tuesday’s Republican primary and beyond for Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich.
Obama and Arizona governor have tense exchange: How respected is President Obama?
Mike Bako on Headline News Radio
Grading Obama’s State of the Union Address: Mike Bako on Wall Street Jouranl Radio
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, Audio, Politics, Press Room on January 25, 2012
President Obama’s 2012 State of the Union speech could easily have been billed as his rebuttal to the beating he has been taking over the last two months from his would-be Republican challengers on the campaign trail and during their numerous debates.
Obama’s State of The Union speech was his attempt to bring back to the national stage the Obama of 2008 that brimmed with optimism and hope. He showed the nation the side of him that was the campaigner who won so many hearts, minds, and votes by speaking about hope, fairness, and the fact (from his perspective) that he was best suited to meet the challenges that lay ahead of us.
Mike Bako on Fox Report: Tim Tebow’s Season Comes To An End
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, Media, Media Training, Politics, Press Room, Video on January 16, 2012
Mike Bako wraps up a wild weekend of NFL playoff action on the Fox Report (1/15/12).
What does the future hold for Tim Tebow? Also, is this the last of Tebowing and Tebowie?
Mike Bako on America’s News Radio Network: NFL Playoffs Down To The Final Four
Mike Bako on America’s News Radio Network discussing the NFC and AFC playoffs as well as a preview of the championship games and a Super Bowl prediction.
Is it Fair to Quote Mitt Romney on “Firing?”
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, Best Speaker of the Day, CEOs/Financial, Communications, Crisis Communications, Debate Central, Government & Politics, Media, Media Training, News, Politics on January 11, 2012
There is a great deal of nonsense surround the fairness of quoting Mitt Romney saying “I like to be able to fire people.” Romney defenders scream that this quote is taken out of context and is horrifically unfair. But every quote in every newspaper, TV newscast and political ad is “taken out of context.” It is taken out of the context of a longer speech, interview or conversation.
The issue is whether it is taken out of context in a way that fundamentally distorts the meaning. If, for example, I said “children, you should never walk across busy streets without looking both ways.” And Newsmax quotes me as saying “TJ Walker says that children should ‘walk across busy streets without looking both ways,’” every fair-minded person would conclude that I had been taken out of context in such a way as to fundamentally distort and pervert my true meaning 100%.
Mitt Romney Set For More Battles In New Hampshire: Mike Bako on Headline News
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, Body Language, celebrities, Communications, Government & Politics, Media, media relations, News, Politics, Video on January 5, 2012
Mike Bako appears on Headline News to discuss the upcoming battle Mitt Romney will have in New Hampshire after his win in the Iowa caucuses.
Sneak Peak at New Anti-Romney TV AD
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The Ultimate Anti-Newt TV Ad
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, Government & Politics, Politics on December 19, 2011
In case Newt Gingrich does get the GOP nomination, my group, AmericanLP, wants to be ready. So we are in planning stages for casting and shooting a commercial like the one below. Please contact me if you know anyone who would be interested in starring in the ad.
Open Casting call for White Woman age30-45 who fits this personal description willing to appear in national broadcast TV ad
Do Tim Tebow’s expressions of faith cross the line? : Mike Bako on WOR Radio
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, Audio, Politics, Press Room on December 18, 2011
When Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow kneels after a big win or thanks God in an interview, some fans love it and some, well, they don’t. But are Tebow’s open expressions of faith crossing a line?
SOURCE: Washington Post
Who Won The Republican Debate Last Night?
Posted by TJ Walker in Communications, Government & Politics, Media, Politics on December 16, 2011
The debate was a bit of a mixed bag with no clear-cut winners or losers.
Here is the breakdown:
FoxNews Rejects French Mitt Romney Ad
Posted by TJ Walker in Government & Politics, Media, media relations, Politics on December 14, 2011
My office just got off the phone with Erin Kelly, head of political ad sales at the Fox News Channel. She told us our ad “French Romney” was rejected because everything Fox airs “has to be truthful.”
No, I’m not making this up. 60 seconds after the call ended, Erin called back to clarify. She says our ad was rejected because it was “misleading.”
Really.
Because if it’s one thing we can all agree with, there would never be anything on the airwaves at Fox that a fair-minded person could construe as misleading. Read the rest of this entry »
Mitt Romney’s $10,000 Debate Bet: TJ Walker on Fox News
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, Politics, Press Room, Video on December 12, 2011
Daily National Managing Editor, TJ Walker, appears on Fox News to offer analysis of the ABC News Republican debate.
Mitt Romney won the sound bite of the night when he offered to wager Rick Perry $10,000. Unfortunately it is an award that might come with heavy consequences for him.
French Speaking Mitt Romney Ad
Posted by TJ Walker in Foreign Languages, Humor, Politics, Video on December 9, 2011
Produced by AmericanLP
Ad Concept: Louis Ferro
New French Speaking Mitt Romney Ad Launches in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina
December 12, 2011
Young Turks Debuts on Current TV — Liberal Television
Posted by TJ Walker in Communications, Politics on December 5, 2011
TJ Walker congratulates Cenk Uygur on his show premiere on Current TV.
But is there room for more programming with a liberal focus? Do democrats even watch TV?
Herman Cain Target of FEC Investigation Demand
Posted by TJ Walker in CEOs/Financial, Crisis Communications, Politics on December 5, 2011
December 5, 2011
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Chair, Federal Election Commission
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Washington, DC 20463
Newt Gingrich for President! – The Liberal Democratic Perspective
Imagine you are a longtime Republican Party activist just returning to the United States after a year-long vacation abroad. At home you turn on your computer and go to the Drudge Report and see that the Democrats somehow managed to change the constitution and nominated Fidel Castro for President. First, you’d rub your eyes to make sure you hadn’t misread. Second, you‘d jump up and down with glee, as visions of 50 state victory romps dance in your head.
This is how I feel at the prospect of Newt being the GOP nominee in 2012. If you could take every sin, hypocrisy, and evil put out by conservatives during the last 35 years, then add a layer of caricature, a pinch of hyperbole and then finally wrap it in a thick layer of bacon-flavored cookie dough before deep frying it, you would come up with a Newt Gingrich, even if he didn’t already exist.
Right Wing Message Goons Demagogue Obama’s “Lazy” comment
Posted by TJ Walker in Government & Politics, Politics on November 18, 2011
From Krauthammer to Hannity to Romney, the whole Right Wing message echo chamber is having a field day over Obama’s description of our economic woes being due, in part, to Americans being “lazy” with respect to our competition with other countries like China over the last 2 decades. This might have some credence if it weren’t for the fact that nearly every conservative commentator has said the same ad naseum for decades. How often have we heard one conservative commentator after another lament that Americans are too lazy to bus tables, hence the need to import Mexican aliens. Or how awful it is that American college students major in things like “black studies” or “Feminist studies” instead of engineering, hence China’s and India’s ability to beat us. Conservatives might as well state the following in an outraged fashion: “How dare Obama state blindingly obvious facts that we say on an everyday basis!”
Rep. Scott Rigell (R) Of Virginia Actually Said Something Honest On The House Floor Monday Night
Posted by TJ Walker in Audio, Government & Politics, Politics on November 18, 2011
“…I would say to my friends, who are Democrats, let’s consider this. Historically, we’ve been around 19 percent of expenses as a percent of our gross domestic product. Right now, we’re over 24.5 percent. This is putting America on a perilous course and I believe that it threatens our country in a fundamental way.
“Now, to my republican colleagues, let’s look at the other side. Historically, we’ve been around 18 percent, plus or minus, revenue as a percent of gross domestic product. And right now, we’re less than 15 percent. That, too, is a problem. Any Republican, who will not admit to this or to confront it and discuss it head on, is not dealing with reality. These are the numbers. It’s not how you feel. It’s where the numbers lead us. We need to be a leadership team here, a body that respects, seeks out, and is guided by the facts.”
Wow, an actual elected Republican being intellectually honest to fellow Republicans, one can only imagine how soon it will be before this guy is stripped of committee memberships and given a primary opponent. He actually had the temerity to point out that we are only taxing 15% of our GDP and we historically spend 18% and the math doesn’t add up.
Mitt Romney Caught Being A Lying Hypocrite
Posted by TJ Walker in Government & Politics, Politics on November 18, 2011
Mitt Romney is running ads attacking Obama for claiming Americans were lazy. Well, it turns out that Romney said essentially the same thing in his own recent book:
“We have been accustomed to being the world’s leading nation for so long, enjoying the freedom, security, and prosperity that comes with that leadership, that we have tended to avoid the hard work that overcoming challenges requires.”
So When Romney calls Americans lazy, he is a fine upstanding person. And when Obama calls Americans Lazy he is a despicable monster who should be booted out of office, got it?
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