Kos shows us why it’s best to delay evaluating something until it has actually happened:
This has been the best veep rollout EVER. But alas, all good things must come to an end. . . And is there a better example than this that old media is getting left out in the cold?
Wolf Blitzer on the Situation Room begging viewers to stay tuned so CNN can bring them coverage of a text message.
Brilliant! We’ve got a lot of campaign a head of us, but this has been the Obama campaign’s finest operation thus far.
I love seeing the old media left out in the cold as much as anyone, but I love seeing Kos be proved wrong even more, so I’m delighted to report that I learned about the choice of Biden from CNN around 1am last night, long before the next message went out. Hours even before that, Biden looked almost certain from Fox News’s report of activity at his home.
CNN and Fox getting the story early is presumably the reason why the text message went out in the middle of the night, rather than when people were awake as the campaign promised.
In retrospect (note to Kos: best time to evaluate things), dragging it out until the last possible moment was too clever by half. With camera crews camped outside the homes of all the candidates, there was no way to keep it a secret.
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