Mobisode
This latest from the Democratic National Committee is hilarious:
For those of you who didn't watch the video, let me recap:
"You agree with us, the Democrats. Remember? Here are Republicans. You don't agree with them. These people are right-wing extremists engaging in unpatriotic dissent. We have plans they're trying to stop--it might be about health care, but that doesn't matter, we don't want to sully this message with specifics. Anyway, only Republicans are against change--and you want change, remember? So support us in what it is we want to do because people who oppose us are crazy."
posted by LAGuy @ 12:25 AM
4 Comments:
Actually fairly compelling.
The 2008 elections were partially about a rejection of screamers- the party knows the market
It's just as easy to see the 2008 elections as the triumph of the screamers.
I was planning to post about how even when the public supports you in a debate, anger isn't the best strategy--the Dems were plenty angry for 8 years, and that didn't convince anyone.
Then I saw this beyond-idiotic video, where the National Comittee, mind you, not some fringe group, say a bunch of irrelevant and dishonest things, and above all do everything they can to avoid the substance of the debate they're presently losing, and figured I had to write about it.
I love the fact that it advises you to call the RNC. You know what the RNC did? Their electronic menu asks you to press 1 (or whatever) if you're calling about the DNC ad. If you press 1 it auto-forwards your call to the DNC. Brilliant bit of political judo there.
And if the 2008 election really was the rejection of the screamers, why didn't the DNC get the message? Do you think that encouraging their supporters to angrily call the RNC headquarters is not itself "mob"-like? Isn't it the ultimate kind of "astroturf" politics?
Or were the people who put this ad together truly hoping that Democrats would call the RNC, and politely and formally, without any rancor, offer constructive suggestions for how the Republican Party could be improved?
And what do you think of the White House's "Director of New Media" asking the public to report right-wing emails to whitehouse.gov? Is this an anti-mob tactic, or just liberal McCarthyism?
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