tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post5899118985891818699..comments2024-03-20T12:34:55.100-05:00Comments on Stonekettle Station: Stomach CrampsJim Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11259550121437562338noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-77254458144885789342007-11-29T22:38:00.000-06:002007-11-29T22:38:00.000-06:00*cough* one *cough*Don't start with me, MWT Damn s...<I>*cough* one *cough*</I><BR/><BR/>Don't start with me, MWT Damn scientists. It's my law, I can make the numbers be anything I want.<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>Seriously, I agree with your observations regarding politics and the changing media environment. I suspect that once a more tech savvy generation of candidates comes along - say 2012 or the one after that - people will wonder how anybody from our stone-aged time elected a president that <I>wasn't</I> one of their myspace friends.Jim Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11259550121437562338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-54623825461923075042007-11-29T20:32:00.000-06:002007-11-29T20:32:00.000-06:00As the course of a Republican debate grows longer,...<I>As the course of a Republican debate grows longer, the probability of a Reagan comparison approaches <B>zero</B>.</I><BR/><BR/>*cough* one *cough*<BR/><BR/>I saw the first set of Dem Youtube debates and my comment to that probably applies just as equally now... I find televised political "debates" to be meaningless exchanges of talking points. How am I supposed to have any understanding of any given candidate's real positions when they can only talk for 30 seconds to a minute?<BR/><BR/>But wait, now we have Youtube! This means that real people can make videos of themselves asking the questions that most matter to them - and the candidates can make videos in reply that last for as long as it takes to explain everything in detail. <BR/><BR/>Some of them already are. There are candidates who have Youtube accounts, and they go around making replies to people's questions, and it's a real dialogue. But CNN hasn't caught on to the real potential of Youtube yet. They still screen the questions for the ones they want to have asked, and (at least during the one Dem debate I looked through) they limit the response time of the candidates, and also choose which candidates respond to which questions.<BR/><BR/>I suspect that CNN isn't going to catch on, because to have true dialogue in these debates, we would just eliminate the middleman entirely. But they're still useful where they are at the moment, because they introduce the basic concept to people who aren't tech-savvy, through their TVs.<BR/><BR/>It'll be interesting to see how the nature of political discussion changes with new mediums in the next decade. Meanwhile, I like the hour-long interviews that GoogleTalks has been doing with their <A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/user/AtGoogleTalks" REL="nofollow">Candidates@Google series</A>.MWThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09446603415730525882noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-9585048440372958422007-11-29T16:56:00.000-06:002007-11-29T16:56:00.000-06:00Nathan, try to keep up. The republican debate had ...Nathan, try to keep up. The republican debate had more boobs than the best porn site (or is that the worst porn site?)<BR/><BR/>There <I>one</I> advantage to watching the debate on CNN though, Linda Stouffer. Just saying.Jim Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11259550121437562338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-53598318402717499202007-11-29T16:37:00.000-06:002007-11-29T16:37:00.000-06:00Wah, Wah, Wah. Jim's upset over the GOP candidate...Wah, Wah, Wah. Jim's upset over the GOP candidates. Well, you've only got yourself to blame for watching them. You should follow my example. While you were wasting your time watching the debate, I was on the intertoobs...looking at guns and boobs.<BR/><BR/>Much more satisfying.<BR/><BR/>-nathanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-15153647631570040752007-11-29T14:45:00.000-06:002007-11-29T14:45:00.000-06:00Tania, I was saving Wright's Law of Kennedy Compar...Tania, I was saving Wright's Law of Kennedy Comparisons for the next democratic debate.<BR/><BR/>Where've you been lately?Jim Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11259550121437562338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-51728371395366595472007-11-29T14:41:00.000-06:002007-11-29T14:41:00.000-06:00urgle. I love the idea that invoking Reagan makes ...urgle. I love the idea that invoking Reagan makes one automatically lose. It's like when an earlier group of Dems kept invoking Kennedy. Blech.Taniahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18142380580388373496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-66562258860713512842007-11-29T14:32:00.000-06:002007-11-29T14:32:00.000-06:00Heh! Heh! Better start buy lye in the gallon jug,...Heh! Heh! Better start buy lye in the gallon jug, Janiece.<BR/><BR/>See, those posts are exactly why I hate those "The Internet for the COMPLETE Idiot" books - there's far, far too many raving idiots on the internet <I>already</I>.Jim Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11259550121437562338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-84535617124053576482007-11-29T14:20:00.000-06:002007-11-29T14:20:00.000-06:00Okay, I lasted less than 5 minutes perusing those ...Okay, I lasted less than 5 minutes perusing those "posts" you linked. Then I had to go and wash my brain out with lye. <BR/><BR/>Good thing I have I have an Andrew Bird NPR Podcast to distract me from politics, because the alternative is becoming a crazed hermit who lives on conspiracy theories. Hmph.You're an Assholehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02634153185390764524noreply@blogger.com