Rhetoric
The politics of parsing
I am going to get a lot of hell for this one, but honestly, it's just too good to pass up. Here's a clip put together by the John Edwards camapaign, capitalizing on Hillary Clinton's fumbling on last Tuesday's primary debate.
Wow. It's the one debate I chose not to watch because it had Tim Russert as the moderator ... and I just hate his Botoxed eyes.
Who knew it would be "the debate" to watch?!?
2008 Presidential Elections | Public Opinion | Public Speaking | Rhetoric | Triangulation | Truthiness | Hillary Clinton | John Edwards
Finally somebody in the national netroots who gets Rudy Giuliani
And that guy is Ezra Klein, You don't need to make anything up, invent any scandals, concoct any problems. You just have to honestly evaluate the words coming out of Giuliani's mouth, the rhetoric coming out of his campaign, and the advisers circling the candidate. It's all there. There's no blowjob, I know, but there's a real threat, and the media should, in its role as guardian of some minimal level of competency within the political process, be pointing out that this man is dangerous, his statements scary, his campaign unsettling, and his advisers insane. His is not a normal candidacy, and so long as the reporters continue treating it as the equivalent of Hillary Clinton's campaign rather than Pat Buchanan's, we're in trouble.
Submitted by Liza Sabater on 31 October 2007 - 12:14pm.
Elections | Extremism | Fascism | Mental Health | Rhetoric | Rudy Giuliani |
Elections | Extremism | Fascism | Mental Health | Rhetoric | Rudy Giuliani |
This is what New York state's big media think is important local reporting
To say the state's mainstream media is making too much out of the animosity between Bruno and Spitzer is an understatement. It shows how little actual reporting is happening not just in Albany and New York City but in each and every major newspaper in the state.
Yeah, sure, I actually find it entertaining to deconstruct the Spitzspeak. There's small tics and twitches, physical and verbal, that say a lot about his thought process.
One of those verbal tics is his over-emphatic use of the phrase "I believe". You can listen to it in this impromptu press conference he gave at the NYSDems Spring meeting. He was asked about and earlier spat with Bruno and this is what he had to say :
The question we all need to ask is : Is this news?
Albany | Governor | New York State Senate | Public Opinion | Public Speaking | Rhetoric | Albay | Eliot Spitzer | Joe Bruno
Dave Pollak's dream
We will make sure a republican never wins an election in New York ever again.
Kinda Sorta Funny | Language | Public Speaking | Rhetoric | Albany | Dave Pollak | NY State Democratic Committee
If technology is to politics what peanut butter is to chocolate, then NY.gov is
more like a shot of chocolate Ex-Lax.
Oh grock ... how I hate that site!
There is nothing appealing about it.
- It has a harsh monochromatic palette.
- It's too much a link and B2B directory
- It really doesn't tell me anything about New York state on that front page.
I have been thinking long and hard about Eliot Spitzer's battle cries of reform for Albany. I take it to heart that he means serious business. The problem is, there is no visible measure of how this change is happening.
Spitzer and Bloomberg are kind of cut from the same political rug when it comes to how they are not implementing technology as an agent of practical government change. Because, honestly, we should not ask what is government. and why it is not working. We need to ask who is government and why aren't they effective.
Action-Based Change | Communications | Internet | NY.gov | Rhetoric | Technology | Transparency | Eliot Spitzer
