"CNN, which saw its ratings surge on nights like Super Tuesday, has yet
to resolve how much of the conventions it will present, said David
Bohrman, who directs the coverage in his capacity as Washington bureau
chief. It has also not decided which of its high-profile hosts —
including Larry King, Anderson Cooper, Wolf Blitzer and Campbell Brown— will travel to the
convention cities to anchor the channel's coverage from a desk on the
convention floor, Mr. Borhman said."
A friend (a Jewish tea-leaf-reader) asks: "Why doesn't it matter that Campbell Brown is married to Dan Senor
who was an AIPAC intern and whose sister Wendy Senor Singer is director
of AIPAC in Jerusalem. Brown demonstrates which way she's going by
converting to Judaism. Plus Senor's sister's hubby is Saul Singer, right-wing
columnist at J Post. Rather different than Blitzer who also came out of AIPAC but has none
of the zealousness of the converted and is, I think, one of the better
handlers of the issue. But 3 Jews out of four and one a stealth AIPAC."
I saw Senor all over the AIPAC conference last week. He spoke openly of how he [AIPAC] had converted former MI Sen. Spencer Abraham, an Arab-American, to Israel support long before Abraham ran for Senate, by helping to extinguish $500,000 in debt the Michigan Republican Party had. Abraham was then party boss. [PS. This anecdote is wrong. Checked my notes; Senor said that Ed Levy, an AIPAC big in Michigan, had done the service for Abraham. Not Senor himself, though I sensed he played a part…]
Speaking of money and religion and the powers that be, the Times says that Obama is now courting Hillary's fundraisers, in NJ and NY. Many are wary of Obama. There's Maureen White, Connecticutian wife of Steve Rattner, who did or didn't stick with Lieberman after Lamont beat him (the echo that Obama doesn't want to hear). There's Alan Patricof. There's Lynn Forester de Rothschild, who's queasy about BHO. A good number of these folks are Jewish. Oh sorry, I forgot: Obama's AIPAC pander was about Jewish votes in Florida!
