[Gore] tended to drone on and on, in singsong, narcotizing cadences best endured by the heavily caffeinated.
Frank BruniYou don't feel you have the same voice in a presidential election if you live in a solid blue or a solid red state. I also don't think we've educated voters well on the different ways in which primaries work in different states. It doesn't need to be the case that you end up with one Democrat and one Republican, you have open primaries, you can have jungle primaries. There are various permutations and combinations of how to do this.
Frank BruniI suppose there are people who can pass up free guacamole, but they're either allergic to avocado or too joyless to live.
Frank BruniI wanted us to be careful about, going to the corner diner, interviewing three people and saying, "here's the mood of the public."
Frank BruniWe've given people both in print and even more so on TV these enormous doses of Donald Trump because people are consuming enormous doses of Donald Trump. If we had gotten a signal that John Kasich got as big an audience, believe me, you would have seen a lot more of John Kasich so it's complicated who's to blame, the media or the people consuming the media.
Frank BruniI think with Donald Trump we're seeing the sort of utterly vanished line at long last of enter - between entertainment and politics. I mean there's always been an enormous dose of entertainment in politics. Trump has completely erased that line but the Trump phenomenon when it comes to where the media's culpability is how much we should be beating ourselves up, that's a complicated question because one of the distinctive features of our era is we know exactly what consumers are doing almost in real time.
Frank Bruni