Re: Munger's talking heads tips

stoops — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:14:07 -0400

My favorite Mungerism: incentives are "economic prostitution." Shazam!

Re: Munger's talking heads tips

ThomasPaine — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:59:35 -0400

Speaking of clowns and 'haircuts.... Mike Munger and Ronald McDonald. Wow, light bulb moment. Anyone, ever see these two guys at the same place... at the same time? All Mike's missing are clown shoes and a happy meal ;^) Mike- please, repo this headshot photo! Sanjay proved this is a good look on middle-aged women but not, on a dude. Please. Mike, man, you are seriously itching for a hairstyle intervention.

Munger's talking heads tips

bniolet — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:35:20 -0400

Former gubernatorial candidate Mike Munger implores academics to grant media interviews in a column in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Munger, the chairman of political science at Duke University, is known to long-time Dome readers as a quote-machine.

His column urges academics to see reporters and their stories as a easy way to get their research some attention.

"There is no cheaper or more effective way for your institution, and your research, to have an impact," he wrote.

In that spirit, Munger offers some handy tips for would-be pundits. One tip is to watch the flip comments. Munger, a man who once said the Republican Party has a history of trotting out "circus clowns" as candidates, knows of what he speaks.

Who could forget his review of then-candidate Beverly Perdue's ads which he said "appeared to be designed to prove that she was once a child and had later had a series of unfortunate haircuts."

"Guess which of my comments made the air that night" he writes in his column. To his credit, Munger did later punk himself.

"I probably should have avoided criticizing someone else' haircuts," he wrote on his blog. "Since, I mean, NO ONE knows more about bad haircuts than I do."

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