Extreme MortManchester
January 8, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Sure, New Hampshire’s the big story today. Which makes this the perfect opportunity to reflect on who might have been elected New York Senator in 1976 — Howard Cosell. (Extreme Cosell?)
We pick up the story with the New York Observer’s Steve Kornacki writing last year about Hillary Clinton:
There’s also the power of her celebrity, which hurts her as much as it helps. In that sense, Mrs. Clinton is a latter-day Howard Cosell, whose bombastic omnipresence once rendered him—simultaneously—the most revered and reviled man in America. (Mr. Cosell actually toyed with entering politics—in 1976, when the New York Senate seat now occupied by Mrs. Clinton came open—but backed out after deciding that he’d rubbed too many people the wrong way to garner 50-percent-plus-one in an election.)
And if he were alive today, Cosell might be saying this about Barack Obama: He…may …go…all…the…way.
Shyster G. Flywheel said,
January 8, 2008 @ 4:13 pm
Better that than “Look at that little monkey go!”
richarda said,
January 8, 2008 @ 4:50 pm
In 1976 a NY U. S. Senate seat “came open”? That’ll be news to the then-incumbant running for re-election, Sen. James L. Buckley (C-NY). Another instance of Soviet Encyclopedia syndrome in the U. S. media? Having a registered Conservative as U. S. Senator from NY ‘never happened’?