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Rich Galen

Friday October 15, 2010

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Unlike public television, Mullings does not have access to old Kingston Trio tapes; nor do I have the ability to woo you with Motown performances, long-legged female Irish dancers, nor of the Three Tenors, or even that Austrian violinist with the long hair.

On the other hand, you don't have to suffer through watching PBS "stars" josh with each other (while slyly looking at the camera in case you didn't know you were being let in on the joke); along with the sound effects of phones ringing, and volunteers pretending to be taking pledges during the depressingly long breaks in the special programming.

Yanni, I could probably do.

For those of you who may have come in after the show started, let me spend a few minutes explaining how this all came to be.

In 1998, Newt Gingrich asked me to take the Executive Director title at GOPAC. Neither Newt nor GOPAC, to put it gently, had the best possible relationship with the Washington press corps which is to say any time they typed the letters G.O.P.A.C. many would get those little white flecks of spit in the corners of their mouths.

The idea came to me to write a regular column which, at the time, had the word GOPAC emblazoned across the top on the hope they could be retrained. It worked pretty well.

Back in 1998 e-mail was not yet ubiquitous, and so MULLINGS was sent as a blast fax. Starting in January 1999, we saved money by sending MULLINGS via e-mail and posting to a web page.

Over the years, the MULLINGS e-mail database has grown to about 35,000 - actually, I just looked at the database and it has grown to just over 39,000, zounds! In addition, MULLINGS gets about 7,000 page views on an average day, driven by its being distributed on Townhall.com, CNSnews.com, and via my 4,309 Facebook "friends" and 907 followers on Twitter.

In addition to the three-day-a-week columns, I occasionally include a "travelogue" which describes the kinds of adventures only I (and maybe Larry David) can have going to the most mundane of places.

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NEW TOPIC:

How long do you think it will take for the behind-the-scenes grousing at the White House about Bill Clinton pushing the narrative that candidates want him for a campaign event instead of Obama to boil over into the popular press?

Even though Hillary Clinton has been a good - the best, in my estimation - member of the Obama foreign policy team, there is not much love between the Obamaians and the Clintonians.

Remember how The James jumped on Obama and the Administration after they tried to downplay their role in the BP oil spill in the Gulf? Carville is a Clinton guy.

So, with Bill running around the country making Democratic candidates happy, and Obama running around the country making Republican candidates happy, these final days of the 2010 election season might get really interesting.

Look for the staffs to begin lobbing rhetorical mortars at each other long about � Sunday.

LAST ITEM

CNN's Wolf Blitzer moderated the debate between Christine O'Donnell and Chris Coons, the opponents in the election for U.S. Senator from Delaware.

Ms. O'Donnell is the Tea Party favorite who's "I am not a witch" ad a couple of weeks ago provided fodder for people like me for about a week.

For most people from Washington, DC - including, I suspect, Mr. Blitzer, the only thing interesting about Delaware is that Wilmington is a stop along the Northeast Corridor AMTRAK line between DC and New York.

If CNN televised the debate with the aim of showing Ms. O'Donnell to be a joke, and then to tie her to all other Republican candidate running, it was a wasted effort.

Even NPR - not exactly a front organization for the Tea Party - had to admit:

What curious viewers saw was O'Donnell, supremely comfortable in front of the camera, essentially hold her own against Democratic nominee Chris Coons.

Oops.

On the Secret Decoder Ring page today: A link to the NPR article about the O'Donnell-Coons debate, a Mullfoto and a Catchy Caption of the Day

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