Posts Tagged ‘sound bites’

Aug 16, 2010

Sound bites of the day TJ Walker – Michael Steele, Steven Slater, Obama and the Mosque

Ed Rollins, the GOP operative who was Ragan’s Campaign manager, basically came out and admitted that GOP Michael Steele is the biggest disaster to happen to the Republicans since, well, Watergate. Steele isn’t able to communicate positive messages about the party—he’s too busy defending himself against the charges that he is the biggest screw-up ever.

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Feb 17, 2010

Sound bite of the week (eating cat) is “better than chicken, rabbit or pigeon”

Beppe Bigazzi, 77, is an Italian Chef who claims he was joking recently on Itaian national television when he said he enjoyed eating cat stew. He’s not joking on TV anymore; he was fired from his on-air position. Apparently you can joke about war, murder or other atrocities as long as yo don’t favor a [...]

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Feb 5, 2010

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood makes soundbite Blunder

Ray “stop driving it” Lahood stuck his fit in his mouth earlier this week. To his credit, he corrected himself within 5 minutes. However, the damage was done. “Stop driving it” is just too juicy a sound bite for reporters covering Toyota’s woes to ignore. The sound bite is an absolute, emotional, attacking, and action [...]

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Jan 22, 2010

Senator Arlen Specter Tells Rep/ Bachman “Act like a lady!”

US Senator Arlen Specter got into a talk radio fight with Rep Michele Bachmann this week. Apparently both were talking over each other. Finally, Specter said, “I’ll treat you like a lady, now act like one.” Ouch! That’s one way to make the sound bite of the day. Specter grabs attention because his comment was [...]

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Nov 20, 2008

The GOP Sound Bite King

The following is from the Daily Beast. If you are looking for an example of someone who can consistently frame every single thought into a perfect sound bite, then look no further that Mike Huckabee. 

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Apr 23, 2008

Media Training–Beat the Clock

Sometimes a reporter will call under deadline and your goal is to get as many quotes in the article, while at the same time, eating up the clock to make it unnecessary and undesirable for the reporter to call your competitors for a quote. Below is a link to a story where I was interviewed [...]

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