flooding the zone

"We're flooding the zone with anyone or anything that has the potential to help," said one American general.

For now, the White House has chosen to deal with it by flooding the zone.

"It was a little bootleg play with four guys flooding the zones.

With no games and no relief in sight, words from all sides are flooding the zone.

There’s no time like right now for flooding the zone with all things Ann and Mitt.

In football parlance, Obama is flooding the zone.

Raines, who famously believed in "flooding the zone," happily watched these particular waters rise.

But Raines's strategy of flooding the zone with articles about Enron didn't do the trick.

They arewe're flooding the zone in a ten-block radius in every direction.

We're really kind of flooding the zone today with briefings, so I appreciate your patience and --

Flooding the zone.

There were just hundreds of these guys flooding the zone on bicycle, on horse, on foot in car in every costume you can imagine.

With journalists scrounging for statistics to shore up their latest anecdotal observations, publicists are helpfully flooding the zone with scientific-sounding findings.

This tactic of "flooding the zone," as Klein called it, became a hallmark of CNN's breaking news coverage on other major stories as well.

Lukas was thoroughbred racing's first organization man, a former Wisconsin high school basketball coach who brought the principle of "flooding the zone" from the court to the race track.

Later, on Fox, she accused Obama's campaign of "flooding the zone with nonsense" and said that Palin and McCain "are very fast learners."

No longer content to report the news, he admits to flooding the zone -and floods it with stories that carry forward his personal crusades and the paper's editorial views.

I mean, I've made X number of trips to the region and Tony Blinken now is following up and we're really flooding the zone, so to speak.

A senior administration official has described the strategy in pitching the president's message to Capitol Hill as "flooding the zone" - bombarding members of Congress with calls and briefings.

The bottom line: The flooding the zone aspect of these dial-a-pollsters has ruined the study of public opinion and made pollsters who spend the money to do it right look obsolete.

We will be flooding the zone with coverage of the State of the Union address — including a live chat on the Fix that will get started at about 8:45 p.m.

Military options for bolstering the effort include "flooding the zone" with more ships and aircraft, a daunting task given the need for constant patrolling over such a large area, Cosgriff said.

State media along with many of the new "independent" media have eagerly leaped to the task, flooding the zone with denunciations of Brotherhood "terror" and rewriting recent history to glorify the role of the armed forces and police.

ABC's JEFF ZELENY: The White House has been flooding the zone for four days, yet the forces opposing a Syria strike certainly seem just as robust as when the week began.

A lot of that's come now to fall under the rubric 'flooding the zone' " - a phrase that was used to describe his practice of assigning a lot of reporters to a big event, but one that became a pejorative in the newsroom.