About that Bridge...

by Virginia Postrel  •  Apr 28, 2008 at 3:15 pm

http://www.dynamist.com/2140/about-that-bridge

Bill Clinton is "woefully unprepared for 21st-century media," says Chuck Todd, the political director of NBC News. From a Broadcasting & Cable report:

"It's fascinating: Nobody's been a bigger victim of the so-called YouTube moments than Bill Clinton," Todd said....

When Clinton was running for president, Todd said, he and his fellow candidates could misspeak -- and even willfully obfuscate -- with relative impunity.

"It was like a Jedi mind trick with him," he added. "It would take a few days for the media to catch up [and] by then he had moved on."