On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dirty Harry's speech did exactly what it was designed to do, which was > get people talking about things that don't matter, distracting them > from the things that do. Looking at social media today, this may have > been the best executed example of media manipulation in the last > several years. People aren't talking about the GOP platform or the bad > ideas of Romney or Ryan. Instead they're talking about an old man who > talked to a chair. Brilliantly executed strategy. > Brilliant - if Eastwood really is an Obama mole planted under deep cover to booby trap the Republican Convention. Romney gave a pretty good speech (of course I disagreed with it, and from my perspective it was based on the stunning and fundamental lie that Republicans started out hoping Obama would be successful). We will have to see how well it connected to the increasingly vanishing undecided voter, but he did seem to connect with his base, and established some positive energy, reversing a dispiriting summer for him. It is crucially important that these guys maximize the impact of their big night (the acceptance speech). Most Americans did not watch the speech itself, but will learn about it in the news coverage the next day and throughout the weekend. Every minute of the 72 hours following the end of that speech that someone on TV on in a blog is not saying something like "Mitt Romney offered a plausible alternative solution to the still huge economic problems of the country" is a wasted opportunity - and too many of those minutes becomes a disaster for the Republicans. Four years ago McCain announced Sarah Palin as his VP the morning after Obama's acceptance speech. Obama had a much better convention then than Romney just had, and gave a much better speech, and generated much more enthusiasm both among his base and in the undecideds - and all the Palin talk still cut deeply into his post-convention bounce. Eastwood joins a long line of unimportant distractions for Romney this summer that have had the effect of preventing him from pressing his most effective line of attack against the President - the fact that unemployment is still way too high. As a very partisan democrat I am happy whenever the media is talking about anything else other than unemployment, whatever it is. If I were Romney I would refuse to talk about anything else except the unemployment numbers from now until November 6. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
