HAHAHA...Jeffrey Toubin says speech was terrible, disorganized and BORING!.

no shit:rofl:

Most of these jerks are jumping on the Propaganda Express.

Wolf said something like "tell us what you really think Jeffrey." Definitely worth a youtube search.

:rofl: :rofl:

The fish is gasping on the beach.

...I don't believe that McCain is a man of peace, etc., but if I didn't know anything about McCain then that speech might have persuaded me to vote for him.

aren't interested in specifics. :eyes:

thinking could say they liked that speech.

If there weren't another person running. ;)

thing before talking to anybody or reading anything, then maybe the speech might have given me pause.

I was in a restaurant in LA and the "speech" was playing at the bar.

About 5 people were watching it.

The other 50 people were NOT even peeping.

South Carolina. :dem:

Did any of the so-called media-savvy consultants vet this presentation? Didn't they realize that the cameras would focus on McCain and just a little of the background picture? That they were playing to the television audience, not just to the crowds in the Whatever Energy Center?

when he mentioned her name and that's when the crowd would wake up.

"Palin, Palin, Palin, I picked Sarah Palin" (cheers)
"Palin, Palin, Palin, I picked Sarah Palin" (cheers)
"Palin, Palin, Palin, I picked Sarah Palin" (cheers)
"Palin, Palin, Palin, I picked Sarah Palin" (cheers)
"Palin, Palin, Palin, I picked Sarah Palin" (cheers)
"Palin, Palin, Palin, I picked Sarah Palin" (cheers)
"Palin, Palin, Palin, I picked Sarah Palin" (cheers)
"Palin, Palin, Palin, I picked Sarah Palin" (cheers)
"Palin, Palin, Palin, I picked Sarah Palin" (cheers)
"Palin, Palin, Palin, I picked Sarah Palin" (cheers)
"Palin, Palin, Palin, I picked Sarah Palin" (cheers)
"Palin, Palin, Palin, I picked Sarah Palin" (cheers)
"Palin, Palin, Palin, I picked Sarah Palin" (cheers)
"Palin, Palin, Palin, I picked Sarah Palin" (cheers)
"Palin, Palin, Palin, I picked Sarah Palin" (cheers)

The Visuals of McCain's Speech

Forget the actual words of McCain's speech. Forget the lies, the attempt to atone for the GOP's failures, the token humility, and the relatively impassioned last 10 minutes. It doesn't matter because the visuals sucked rocks. The visuals distracted horribly from the speech.

McCain's campaign ought to fire whoever it was that thought it would be a good idea to have the huge images on the screen behind him. There's a reason the Obama campaign built "The Parthenon" behind him - it looked good as a background for the people watching on TV, which is 99.9% of the people who saw the speech. The green screen, the zoomed in out of focus lawn, and the sky blue made horrible backgrounds next to McCain. It was literally visually painful to watch - it was hard for me to even listen to the words he was saying.

The audience didn't help either, distracting far more than the protesters with their chants of USA! USA! USA! Throw in McCain's patented stilted movements and off-tempo cheesy grins, and it's very easy to forget what he actually said.

Image is golden in politics. Obama and his campaign pulled it off brilliantly last week. Tomorrow, the words of a speech will be forgotten. What remains is the image - and that won't help John McCain.

http://www.theleftcoaster.com/

... much-derided by the Right "columns" setup look that much better. (Yet another case where wingnuts are having fits of cognitive dissonance.)

And what the hell is brown noise?

Nixon faupaux during the Kennedy/Nixon debate! Presentation is everything!

It could be summed-up in two words.... Buzz Kill.

edit... p.s. Did you know McCain was a POW?

:sarcasm:

... which demonstrates why he won't be able to lead the country. He can't inspire.

Oh, by the way... pow.