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News & ArtsFriday, October 16, 2009
Politics The Medium Is The Message
Posted by Eli Sanders on Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 12:32 PM
I watched last night's County Exec debate live in the studio, but of course that's not the way the majority of viewers experienced it. All kinds of things that seem one way in the flesh—Dow Constantine's deliberateness, Susan Hutchison's extremely yellow jacket—appear totally different once the camera gets done with them. Here is last night's face-off the way it was intended to be seen: inside a rectangular screen.
That's part one. Here are parts two and three, in which the best lines of the night appear.
Constantine's best line—which came after Hutchison said she would both propose a new human services levy and refuse to raise taxes:
I think I just heard my opponent say that she would propose to the voters raising taxes in the middle of the recession, and that she would not support raising taxes in the middle of the recession. That's not leadership.
Hutchison's best line—which came after Constantine attacked her for contributing money to conservative politicians and reminded viewers that last year Hutchison said a book put out by the conservative Washington Policy Center would "make you smarter":
I tell people to read The Washington Post and it doesn't mean I endorse everything they say. Or the Wall Street Journal, for that matter. It doesn't mean I endorse everything they say. But my opponent is a foreigner to the marketplace of ideas. He can't accept anything that isn't in his narrow area. And I like to learn from all the various ways of thinking around us. And that's how you make good decisions. You hear what everyone has to say.
1
Both the WSJ and WaPo have almost entirely neocon columnists and editorial writers.
Oh, sure they have token ones that aren't but it's true of both papers for the most part.
So if that's her win, she's scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Oh, sure they have token ones that aren't but it's true of both papers for the most part.
So if that's her win, she's scraping the bottom of the barrel.
2
dow should have said, well, give us some names of some dems which you gave money to.
heyzeus i hope im dead wrong, but it looks like dow might lose this race.
f@#### !!!
heyzeus i hope im dead wrong, but it looks like dow might lose this race.
f@#### !!!
4
"I like to listen to all harebrained halfwit ideas, because I'm not smart enough to tell which ones are legitimate and which ones should be laughed out of the room."
5
"I love to shop all around at the marketplace of ideas, because I don't have any of my own and I don't know the first goddamn thing about government. I wish they would build a nice new marketplace of ideas right next to the free house that my friend Bruce McCaw is letting me use for my campaign HQ, unreported!"
6
Hutchinson clearly won the debate when looked at from an objective point of view.
Her messages were much clearer to understand, and her presentation style will impress the voters much more than Dow's presentation effort.
You may not like Susan, but you can't deny that she won the head to head matchup.
And that "impression" of each candidate will likely sway the remainder of "on the fence" voters ...
And you know this is absolutely true....
Denial isn't just a river in Africa
Her messages were much clearer to understand, and her presentation style will impress the voters much more than Dow's presentation effort.
You may not like Susan, but you can't deny that she won the head to head matchup.
And that "impression" of each candidate will likely sway the remainder of "on the fence" voters ...
And you know this is absolutely true....
Denial isn't just a river in Africa
8
I'm a die hard liberal, and Hutchison scares me on a personal and ideological level. But she totally won this debate, and after watching it I'd consider voting for her. She's much smarter than I thought, and she seems like she wants to change things up and look for new solutions.
I'm not sure that Dow is the right guy for this job... He's stale, focused on the past, and doesn't seem ready for the challenge of changing so many things at once.
I'm not sure that Dow is the right guy for this job... He's stale, focused on the past, and doesn't seem ready for the challenge of changing so many things at once.
10
God - so fuckable in yellow - get drunk on tropical booze - smoke Kona Gold - use mango flavored lube.
And I am gay.
Go figure. The old hardon vote?
And I am gay.
Go figure. The old hardon vote?
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