As Seen On TV!
Apparently, there was some sort of Ginsu Knife Obama infomercial on the teevee tonight that I missed because, frankly, life’s too short. Oh, and I was mildly afraid it would be akin to that famous scene from Alan J. Pakula’s Parallax View. Most important, basketball season has begun and I’m already cursing the sports-injury Gods .
Still, OC alum Mark Hemingway has a rundown of the stirring imagery, mellifluous speechifying and Vaseline-lensed cinematography for the National Review’s blog, The Corner.
As for the format of the special itself, aesthetically it was a bit nauseating with all the soft focus and generically uplifing music constantly swelling in and out. As for the content, I’m sorry it’s not that I don’t care about those experiencing hardship — quite the contrary — but the last thing that should be driving America’s voting habits is a half-hour of Manipulative Portraits of Downtrodden Victims of Shadowy Governmental Forces.
This is a nice point! Shadowy Forces as manipulative rhetorical device is bad! Portraits of Downtrodden Victims are trite!
Surely, the McCain/Palin campaign would never sink to such tactics.
“all the soft focus and … swelling in and out.”
Bom chikka wa-wa.
I totally forgot that this speech was happening today, but I didn’t get home from work until 11pm, so I’d have missed it even if I remembered. Oh well, twitter and the blogs don’t seem in an uproar about it, so I guess Obama didn’t come out as a Crypto Muslim or whatever it is that kid’s are these days.
On an unrelated note, my ballot arrived today. A week(?) late.
“As for the format of the [Obama] special itself, aesthetically it was a bit nauseating with all the soft focus and generically uplif[t]ing music constantly swelling in and out.”
Get used to it, folks; it’s going to be going on for a while.
We’ll have to see what the Nielsen ratings are, as well as attempting to extrapolate the AQH (Average Quarterly Hour ratings), as well as the total cume.
Once all that information comes in, then we’ll be able to see what the end result is.