The Best of NYC MEDIA
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BEST EGGSHELL-WALK PORTENDING A FUTURE IN WHICH THE GOP IS ACTUALLY ABLE TO APPEAL TO SOCIALLY CONSERVATIVE MINORITIES:
The New York Post on Obama
The front page of Murdoch’s four-bit subway read treats “Bam” as a celebrity, appealing to New Yorkers’ deep feelings about the POTUS; then hammers his policies once the readers are inside. (Especially masterful is how they stroke their conservative white, blue-collar base without offending the rest of their readership: take every opportunity to manufacture a “gaffe,” a la his statement of an actual opinion regarding the Gates-Crowley affair.)
