Back in the day before the YouTubes and the cable newses, presidential candidates had to “get the message out” by talking to the reporters who followed them around all the time. But now they don’t have to talk to anybody, they can just go on Hannity or whatever so now the job of the campaign-trail reporter is to sit on the candidate’s plane and bitch about how the candidate never talks to them. MORE »

Presumably armed with a bag of pork rinds and a Styrofoam cooler of cheap beer, Rudy Giuliani attended Sunday’s NASCAR Nextel Cup Ford 400 race where he sputtered, spat and lisped about religious liberty, alternative fuels and A-Rod’s new contract. How did a Brooklyn-born kid get into NASCAR? Ask his third wife, Judith who apparently perfected her crazy-eyed 100-yard stare at many many NASCAR races. Giuliani a regular guy at NASCAR race [Palm Beach Post] MORE »

In the December issue of Men’s Vogue, on newsstands tomorrow, former Clinton and Dukakis advance man Joshua King goes behind the scenes of the Clinton and Romney campaigns in Iowa to pen his 20 Rules of Advance Stagecraft (No word if he was the genius behind tank-and-helmet shot that doomed Dukakis). The Top Ten, after the jump. MORE »