CNN video: McCain move called misstep
Ed Rollins, Gloria Borger, Paul Begala talk with Anderson Cooper.
Begala says, “Bush is a high-functioning moron.” Yikes.
But even Ed Rollins isn’t too fond of McCain, it seems.
September 26, 2008
September 23, 2008
The Living Room Candidate – Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2008
The Living Room Candidate – Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2008
Amazing dance back in time. 1952. A good year.
[via Andrew Tobias]
September 20, 2008
Pfizer: Graffiti | Creativity Online
Pfizer: Graffiti | Creativity Online
If you can watch this through to the end without a tear. …
*sniff*
August 27, 2008
DNC: Montana Governor Schweitzer’s address
So far … tops on my list: Michelle Obama’s speech. Kucinich. Hillary’s.
… and Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer.
What a guy. You go KICK BUTT, Schweitzer!
He had them up and cheering.
“Stand up, Colorado! Stand up!”
“Florida! Stand up!”
“Michigan! Stand up!”
“Pennsylvania! Stand up!”
“Get off of your hind end!
“In the cheap seats! Stand up!”
Entertaining.
Mark Warner Democratic Convention Speech: Text
Mark Warner Democratic Convention Speech: Text
I am way not keen on Mark Warner.
As I watched his speech, something went woop!woop!woop! in the background.
Well done, Hillary.
Amazing speech.
“No way. No how. No McCain.”
“Keep going. …”
Well done, Hillary.
August 26, 2008
Michelle Obama @ DNC
Took me a long time to get the vid for this, so if you’ve been having the same sorts of issues, here you go.
I don’t remember other political spouses doing their thing at conventions.
Michelle’s was … pretty good! I think.
… and I think, after labeling this “politics,” maybe I should have a “2008 elections” label, eh?
Update: I’ve added an election2008 label to the stasho’labels. I’ll fill it in over the next while.
Ted at the DNC
Towse’s True Confessions…
I have never been a Ted Kennedy fan, for various reasons I won’t go into here.
But this made me cry.
(Thought it was interesting that C-SPAN thought they had to identify Caroline Kennedy as “daughter of John F. Kennedy”.)
August 18, 2008
FORA.tv – Videos Covering Today’s Top Social, Political, and Tech Issues
FORA.tv – Videos Covering Today's Top Social, Political, and Tech Issues
FORA.tv is advertising for unpaid interns on CraigsList.
Toddled off to see what’s up with that. I’d seen a stack of FORA.tv lit over at the Commonwealth Club offices on Saturday.
Long Now talks. Aspen Institute talks. Commonwealth Club talks. …
Here’s a Roger Rosenblatt interview with Amy Tan at the Chautauqua Institution on July 10, 2008. The interview is broken out in sections. If you only want to hear Tan speak on “Writer’s Memory” you can click straight to the spot.
E.L. Doctorow on the Problematic Nature of Writing Novels
The indexing is superb. You can select one of the broad subject ranges and then one of the sub-sections. You can search for subjects. You can find all videos from the Hoover Institution.
Brilliant stuff.
August 10, 2008
new video: "Republicans and military men on John McCain"
This election has the internet (columns, blogs, newsgroups, sites, videos, commentary, Web2.0 electioneering) playing a huge part, for those who use the internet.
And even for those who don’t, if they read the papers or watch TV.
McCain’s ad comparing Obama to Paris and Britney didn’t have much play in paid air time, but it was on the Web getting a zillion views and MSM picked it up and talked about it and wondered about it and speculated about it and suddenly a fairly small media budget got a factor of n more traction than it would otherwise.
But it’s not just the videos produced by professionals and paid for by campaigns or major political parties. I am stunned by the brilliance of some of the non-campaign videos that are popping up. (And stupefied by the webisodes that were shot of John Edwards and paid for by his campaign, but that’s another story. …)
The younger nib grew up making videos and belonging to movie/video clubs and competing in movie/video competitions from his teen years as did many of the Y generation.
Those years of practice show up when professionals donate their work to the cause: will.i.am’s Obama ‘Yes, we can’ video and Paris for President.
Those years of practice show up too in the amateur videos made for YouTube distribution.
This morning I came across a link to “Republicans and military men on John McCain” in the comments tail of a Huffington post. Visuals. Captures. Background music. Amazing work from someone who seems to be the same age as the younger nib.
Director: Aaron Hodgins Davis, Skidmore. Uploaded 31Jul2008.