by Rob Cottingham | Oct 8, 2008 | Politics, Speechwriting
Jokes are supposed to be a public speaker’s best friend. They break the ice, put the audience at their ease, and make you look a little more warm and human. And so they do – when they work. When they don’t… well, look at Sen. John McCain in... by Rob Cottingham | Jun 24, 2008 | Blogging, Communicating, Everything Else, Online Community
[flv]https://www.robcottingham.ca/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/mccain-scott.flv[/flv] by Rob Cottingham | Jun 4, 2008 | Blogging, Communicating, Politics, Speechwriting
I’m going to save the screen capture I took of the Democratic Party’s home page a few minutes ago. And the next time I read some columnist pontificating about how the outcome of an election is a foregone conclusion…or hear a talking head pronouncing... by Rob Cottingham | Jun 2, 2008 | Media Mix, Politics
Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan’s explosive memoir lambastes the press for rolling over for the Bush administration’s sales job on the Iraq war. But Seth Leibsohn, a right-wing blogger at the National Review’s web site, was... by Rob Cottingham | Apr 20, 2008 | Politics, Technology
The news over the past few weeks – or, more accurately, over and over and over over the past few weeks – has been all about Barack Obama’s digitally-recorded comments about small-town working-class bitterness over economic insecurity. I’m torn....