"Barbara O’Brien’s wide-ranging account of Zen history is conveyed with a master storyteller’s ability to keep the forest from getting lost in a myriad of trees. Wearing her scholarship lightly, she blends just the right amount of skepticism about her hagiographic sources with a deep appreciation for the Dharma." — Barry Magid, author of
Nothing Is Hidden and
Ending the Pursuit of Happiness Order here!
Mitt’s biggest mistake was in having a whiteboard (was this some sort of a hint?), instead of a BLACKboard, where everything is ‘whitened’ – and in not taking lessons from Glenn Beck.
He could have had 2 blackboards, one with a quadrant each, for ACORN, The New Black Panthers, European Socialism, and Kenyan Fascist Communist Economics.
And then he could have done all sorts of things on it with different colors of chalk, and writing or drawing, George Soros, arrows, the Tides Foundation, pie charts, Hollywood, Venn diagrams, the Lamestream Media, great-than and less-than symbols, Jimmy Carter, Woodrow Wilson, and every other little absurd analogy that comes to one of his advisors in a fever-dream.
And then, in summary on the 2nd blackboard, written:
“Obama Sucks,” and “I (draw a heart) Paul Ryan – and So Should You!”
And finally, “Obama=MediSCARE: Taking Gray-haired White Folks Hard-earned Money, and Giving it to His Sista’s, Brotha’s, and GANGSTA’s!!!”
and, “R&R=Cavalry: Coming to Save Medicare From the Brown Hordes, Bro’s, and Ho’s!”
My favorite part is where she says “That’s a flat-out lie.”
I liked the ad but someone else needs to do it.I am not pleased with Stephanie cutter at the moment. I think you can all guess why.
Not re Romney on Medicare, but still spot-on:
Can we stand back and pause a short minute to take in the spectacle of a man who wants to be President of The United States, who wants us to seriously regard him as a paragon of the American civic ideal, declaiming proudly and in public that he has paid his taxes at a third of the rate normally associated with gentlemen of his economic benefit. –David Simon (creator of “The Wire”)
Mr. Simon, if I didn’t already adore you for giving us Omar Little, Howard “Bunny” Colvin and “Bubbles” the tender-hearted junkie, I would love you for that sentence above. Also your porkpie hat.
I thought is was a horrible presentation, from the long bullet points to the scraped-up font. ALL CAPS? REALLY? The wrong font size – too big for the repetitive stuff, too small for the important stuff. Her presentation was flat, she could use way more drama. Don’t they pay people to study and do this for them? Or did Steph sit down at her laptop and “throw it together?”
Jen, I agree with you. It was a bad ad buy — one talking head pitted against some other talking heads.
Sheesh!
Don’t tell. Show.
And I can think of no better example of this than Ben Cohen’s brilliant dissection of the Federal economic pie using Oreo cookies. Alas, my old links no longer work. But if you can still find it, guaranteed, you’ll be impressed. It’s not only brilliant, it socks the point home as no talking head could even even hope for.
I thought it was pretty good; not great–but not bad.
This is exactly the message they need to be hammering home — and I don’t mind the faux whiteboard with the squeaky marker — but Stephanie is the WRONG person to be delivering it! She talks too fast and without conviction. They need the Pres himself and/or some really big guns or articulate spokespeople (and NOT Biden, please!) to get this message out. Many commentators say the Reps are WINNING with their lies and scare tactics about Medicare. This is the issue that could determine the election.