June 14, 2012
— Ace Kaus wonders.
According to the Rushfield Theory of Buzzdeath–that in the New Media environment, generating “buzz” typically produces a counter-reaction that leaves you worse off than before–this is a mistake for Obama. … Actually, rushing out a “major” speech on the economy is a mistake even under the older theory that a President can seem desperate and overxposed. … Why does Obama have to win the week, or the month? It’s June! Obama doesn’t have to win June. …
As I noted, Jonathan Alter panned the speech; so did another liberal from Daily Beast. That left MSNBC's hosts to spin furiously that the speech was amazing.
Apparently hectored by Obama partisans, Jonathan Alter indicated that he was aware of the Full Metal Cocoon the left had built around itself.
Just cheerleading BO doesn’t help him. He needs a sharper, more cogent message with some memorable lines. I ain’t walking my criticism back— Jonathan Alter (@jonathanalter) June 14, 2012
Well, what he actually needs are better facts, but as those are unlikely to be forthcoming, sure, he needs "memorable lines." For all the good that will do.
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Posted by: Richard II at June 14, 2012 01:25 PM (QKKT0)
Posted by: The Weimar Republic at June 14, 2012 01:25 PM (QKKT0)
Posted by: Anal Bum cover for Elton at June 14, 2012 01:26 PM (bEc64)
. . . FUDGE PECKER!!!!11!!1
Now, how to get it on a bumper sticker.
Posted by: TheLittlShiningMan at June 14, 2012 01:27 PM (PH+2B)
Posted by: toby928© at June 14, 2012 01:27 PM (QupBk)
Posted by: Savonarola at June 14, 2012 01:27 PM (QKKT0)
Posted by: Ma Bell at June 14, 2012 01:27 PM (uVuwp)
Posted by: RWC at June 14, 2012 01:28 PM (fWAjv)
Posted by: A. Lincoln at June 14, 2012 01:28 PM (PXoUb)
Face it. If it's just MSNBC that is pulling for you, you have lost.
Granted, there are other outlets. But how well are they doing, business wise?
Posted by: HH at June 14, 2012 01:29 PM (v+ExF)
************
With Beckel's...errr..preferences, I suspect those specks are actually thong spandex.
Posted by: Jim Sonweed at June 14, 2012 01:29 PM (HzO4m)
Barky got elected that way....being the 'Youtube Candidate'...the first New Media Candidate.
He's losing at it now.
So, of course....now, 'it doesn't matter'.
Posted by: wheatie at June 14, 2012 01:30 PM (M2JTb)
Posted by: The Political Hat at June 14, 2012 01:30 PM (XvHmy)
Posted by: JFK at June 14, 2012 01:30 PM (QupBk)
Posted by: Anal Bum cover for Elton at June 14, 2012 01:31 PM (bEc64)
Let's give this chump four more years because he's black and it will make us feel good about injustices that happened in the past?
Yeah, I've been denounced.
Posted by: Fritz at June 14, 2012 01:31 PM (ZN5qR)
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at June 14, 2012 01:31 PM (tKFT6)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 14, 2012 01:31 PM (MCDCp)
Posted by: s Talking About at June 14, 2012 01:31 PM (jUZRg)
Posted by: jasper at June 14, 2012 01:32 PM (QupBk)
Posted by: Preznint Choom at June 14, 2012 01:32 PM (gFr04)
Winning the media day or week or month isn't the issue. Obama's biggest hurdle is that the nation understands all too well there is a vacuum of leadership at the highest level of government. Memorable lines are not the cure for this ailment. That's why Romney is so appealing: he projects competence and leadership.
Posted by: kallisto at June 14, 2012 01:32 PM (jm/9g)
The private sector is fine. We remember that one.
Posted by: is what JQ Public is thinking... at June 14, 2012 01:32 PM (NBj0d)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at June 14, 2012 01:33 PM (8y9MW)
Frickin' immature.
Love it.
********
Back in the '80's some South American junta declared a "Day of Silence", which the opposition observed by driving around town honking horns, ringing cowbells and yelling "Silencio!" .
heh
Posted by: Jim Sonweed at June 14, 2012 01:33 PM (HzO4m)
Posted by: Barakhenaten I at June 14, 2012 01:33 PM (j3VzN)
Well I think what he would actually need is memorable lines of substance. Because if he falls back into his normal empty rhetoric it will be subject to mockery and backfire. So lines of substance is what he needs.
So he's screwed. Because there is only one line of substance he'll ever have, and really can't do that in public.
Posted by: buzzion at June 14, 2012 01:34 PM (GULKT)
Posted by: Benito Mussolini at June 14, 2012 01:34 PM (QKKT0)
Posted by: Dennis Haysbert at June 14, 2012 01:34 PM (QupBk)
Posted by: Uncledave at June 14, 2012 01:34 PM (hrAg/)
OT: The secret to good comedy is timing, and Joe Biden's got it!
"(CNSNews.com) - Vice President Joe Biden, speaking at a high school commencement ceremony in Virginia Thursday, called the Arab Spring a “democratic movement” -- on the same day that the Egyptian high court nullified the Islamist majority parliament and the Egyptian military assumed control of the legislature."
Posted by: WalrusRex at June 14, 2012 01:34 PM (jUZRg)
Posted by: jimi ray at June 14, 2012 01:35 PM (FcOR4)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX at June 14, 2012 01:36 PM (0xqzf)
Posted by: Erich Honecker at June 14, 2012 01:36 PM (e8kgV)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at June 14, 2012 01:36 PM (k9E1s)
Well, that, and an engaged and active Conservative Alternate Media. Once upon a time, the Democrats could say whatever they wanted and, as someone once noted, the Lie would be half-way 'round the world before the Truth had its shoes on. Now, however, the Truth sleeps in its shoes, so it can hit the ground running (I'm taking that way to far, aren't I?).
So- yes, he has to "Win the Media Day" because that's the only way Democrats win- when they can fill the air with so many lies that no one knows the truth. No, he can't actually do it, because the Democrats don't own all the channels of communication anymore.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at June 14, 2012 01:36 PM (8y9MW)
Posted by: Gen. Friedrich Paulus at June 14, 2012 01:37 PM (QKKT0)
Posted by: Honey Badger at June 14, 2012 01:37 PM (GvYeG)
In all the fricking speeches he ever gave (a million or so?) the only ones I remember
corpsemen
I see dead people(Memorial Day)
57 States
private sector is fine
etc etc etc
I thought he was a great orator and yet I can't even remember his greatest speech ever.....the one on race
Posted by: Ma Bell at June 14, 2012 01:37 PM (uVuwp)
It does not bode well for him. I look forward to the bonfire of his vanity.
Posted by: pep at June 14, 2012 01:38 PM (6TB1Z)
Imagine the awsomeness of tomorrow's Major Speech.
You all just wait. It's coming, I tell you. All new phrases. Poll-tested ideas. Practised and rehearsed delivery, with that great combination of lofty voice tone and folksiness. It's a winner.
Everyone from ABC to Univision, every call letter in between and some after U, will run all 92 minutes of it, and afterwards, the pundits will be nodding their heads, almost all of them speechless, saying, truly, this was the one, the only, the greatest comeback speech of all.
Wait for it. All will be well.
Posted by: TheLittlShiningMan at June 14, 2012 01:39 PM (PH+2B)
I see what you did there.
Posted by: Savonarola at June 14, 2012 01:39 PM (QKKT0)
Posted by: toby928© at June 14, 2012 01:40 PM (QupBk)
Posted by: buzzion at June 14, 2012 05:34 PM (GULKT)
I saw what you did there.
Posted by: kathysaysso at June 14, 2012 01:40 PM (ZtwUX)
Barky's most "memorable" lines...are turning out to be Memorably Mock-Worthy.
This is what is giving him heartburn.
This is what is giving his cheerleader media a headache.
Remember his 'Winning The Future' thing? ....It got mocked for being WTF.
Every meme that Team Barky has come up with, has been easy to mock.
And...he makes it worse, when he tries to elaborate on them.
Let the Mocking continue.
It's working.
Posted by: wheatie at June 14, 2012 01:41 PM (M2JTb)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at June 14, 2012 01:41 PM (8y9MW)
Posted by: © Sponge at June 14, 2012 01:41 PM (UK9cE)
Posted by: Prezy at June 14, 2012 01:41 PM (s72/N)
Posted by: Y-not at June 14, 2012 01:41 PM (5H6zj)
Posted by: Y-not at June 14, 2012 01:42 PM (5H6zj)
Posted by: Tony "Scarface" Montana at June 14, 2012 01:42 PM (YEelc)
I going to some small town in Pennsylvania. Anybody know any good lines for a speech.
Posted by: A. Lincoln
I'd hit the bitter people clinging to their guns and religion hard.
Posted by: WalrusRex at June 14, 2012 01:42 PM (jUZRg)
Obama: "Romney would -cut- government budgets!"
Romney: Ok, that's a wrap. Now put it on YouTube.
Posted by: Al at June 14, 2012 01:43 PM (+jyUl)
Posted by: Anal Bum cover for Elton at June 14, 2012 01:43 PM (bEc64)
Posted by: Y-not at June 14, 2012 01:44 PM (5H6zj)
PelosiÂ’s minimum net worth dropped by roughly $8.8 million in 2011, the report suggests. It valued PelosiÂ’s wealth as at least $26.4 million at the end of the 2011 calendar year, down from at least $35.2 million the previous year.
Posted by: Dr Kildaire at June 14, 2012 01:44 PM (e8kgV)
Posted by: Y-not at June 14, 2012 01:45 PM (5H6zj)
The only memorable line I want to hear is:
Willard Mitt Romney "I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
Posted by: YIKES! at June 14, 2012 01:45 PM (tXEHy)
squirt
Posted by: Clutch Cargo at June 14, 2012 01:45 PM (Qxdfp)
report suggests. It valued PelosiÂ’s wealth as at least $26.4 million at
the end of the 2011 calendar year, down from at least $35.2 million the
previous year.
Posted by: Dr Kildaire at June 14, 2012 05:44 PM (e8kgV)
Don't worry about me. I'll be fine when Obamacare kicks in and my quarter-hourly botox injections are covered 100%.
Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at June 14, 2012 01:46 PM (ggRof)
Big fat bar sluts with low self esteem.
Or as I like to call them 53%ers.
Sure, turn my back for one second and you're talking smack about me.
Posted by: Meggie Mac at June 14, 2012 01:46 PM (YEelc)
PelosiÂ’s minimum net worth dropped by roughly $8.8 million in 2011, the
report suggests. It valued PelosiÂ’s wealth as at least $26.4 million at
the end of the 2011 calendar year, down from at least $35.2 million the
previous year.
***
Her value as a person is holding steady at a plug nickle and two Confedereate dimes.
Posted by: WalrusRex at June 14, 2012 01:46 PM (jUZRg)
Her value as a person is holding steady at a plug nickle and two Confedereate dimes.
Hey, Confederate Dimes can be worth quite a lot to the right collectors.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at June 14, 2012 01:47 PM (8y9MW)
report suggests. It valued PelosiÂ’s wealth as at least $26.4 million at
the end of the 2011 calendar year, down from at least $35.2 million the
previous year.
Posted by: Dr Kildaire at June 14, 2012 05:44 PM (e8kgV)
Nancy Pelosi/Anna Wintour separated at birth?
Posted by: YIKES! at June 14, 2012 01:47 PM (tXEHy)
Posted by: The Greys at June 14, 2012 01:47 PM (tEe1I)
Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my
Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United
States."
And if my esteemed predecessor wouldn't mind terribly much, would he please return the f****** White House silver?
Posted by: pep at June 14, 2012 01:47 PM (6TB1Z)
Posted by: maddogg at June 14, 2012 01:48 PM (OlN4e)
Posted by: Y-not at June 14, 2012 05:44 PM (5H6zj)
Oooh, I like that.
And hate to tell this, but I turned off the TV the night he said that. Figured it was just some more horseshit about Vietnam.
And then the phone rang...
Posted by: HH at June 14, 2012 01:48 PM (v+ExF)
Obama does need some memorable lines. Like:
True unemployment is down to 5.9%
Our national debt has been cut to only $6 trillion
We are phasing out regulations that prevent the growth and expansion of business
And not least, I am proud to sign the full repeal of the Affordable Care Act.
Problem is, Obama will never be able to say those lines.
Posted by: imp at June 14, 2012 01:48 PM (UaxA0)
With O as our Preezy
He promised us swell
But delivered us hell
ROMNEY 2012
Posted by: TheLittlShiningMan at June 14, 2012 05:47 PM (PH+2B)
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Nice....very nice. ....Memorable, even.
Posted by: wheatie at June 14, 2012 01:50 PM (M2JTb)
Posted by: lael at June 14, 2012 01:50 PM (nNjlJ)
Temptation? Aw hell, just send an engraved invite why don'cha...
http://tinyurl.com/88vugrm
Posted by: Brother Cavil presents at June 14, 2012 01:51 PM (GBXon)
Posted by: maddogg at June 14, 2012 01:53 PM (OlN4e)
We can't get anywhere as a country if we don't hire more teachers.
Teachers like the deranged and subversive Maoist assholes who infest Madison WI.
We cannot get ANYWHERE when we teach our kids about freedom and capitalism.
We do get somewhere when we show our children Steven Spielberg movies, which teach them about sharing ans shit like that.
Kids need entertainment, and teachers. Two of the most important things in ever.
Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz Bunny at June 14, 2012 01:53 PM (tcSZb)
Posted by: Dave S. at June 14, 2012 01:53 PM (Os+6p)
Posted by: ChampionCapua at June 14, 2012 01:53 PM (KZi9D)
Notice the Breitbart t-shirt as a bonus.
Posted by: BaYIKES! at June 14, 2012 01:55 PM (tXEHy)
Posted by: Barack Obama's Secret Gay Boyfriend at June 14, 2012 01:55 PM (XvHmy)
Posted by: mrp at June 14, 2012 01:56 PM (HjPtV)
To be followed on Friday, after tomorrow's Most Boring Barnburner of All, with a new one titled, "Do Presidential Campaign Speeches Work?"
Posted by: TheLittlShiningMan at June 14, 2012 01:56 PM (PH+2B)
Posted by: nickless at June 14, 2012 01:56 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: WalrusRex at June 14, 2012 01:58 PM (jUZRg)
If its still deranged and unbelievable, that ain't gonna work. Obama needs a message that people don't think is complete bullshit, and that's gonna be a real problem for him.
Posted by: Purp (@PurpAv) at June 14, 2012 01:59 PM (YczI9)
Posted by: The Jackhole at June 14, 2012 01:59 PM (nTgAI)
I also think the big problem is that his big package is just not visible behind the podium, at all! Maybe he needs a better cut in his slacks.
Gay people care about it, plus the liberal women, maybe independent women too.
That stuff is as important as messaging.
Pant creases and large crotches, it wins people over.
Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz Bunny at June 14, 2012 02:00 PM (tcSZb)
Posted by: Polifact at June 14, 2012 02:00 PM (0GONp)
Posted by: joeindc44 says choom on fuckers at June 14, 2012 02:01 PM (QxSug)
Posted by: I have the President's back at June 14, 2012 02:01 PM (4eNxd)
This theme is everywhere now. I have noticed it often used in environmental circles. We just need to be better communicators ...
Posted by: Long Island at June 14, 2012 02:02 PM (kzp9t)
Posted by: joeindc44 says choom on fuckers at June 14, 2012 02:02 PM (QxSug)
Posted by: Dave S. at June 14, 2012 02:05 PM (L2I78)
As someone said during the 2008 campaign, "You can put lipstick on a pig, its still a pig."
Posted by: davidt at June 14, 2012 02:06 PM (Lg3Dl)
Joey Biden
Well? It's true. I also don't get slime mold.
Posted by: pep at June 14, 2012 02:06 PM (6TB1Z)
Well, if LBJ is an example, then Obama should get out of the way of economic recovery.
Course the chances of that happening...
Well, I wouldn't bet on it.
Posted by: HH at June 14, 2012 02:06 PM (v+ExF)
Plus wasnt he is such a dreamy communicator one of Obama's big selling points. What he doesn't have that going for himself now?
Posted by: Long Island at June 14, 2012 02:07 PM (kzp9t)
Posted by: mrp at June 14, 2012 02:09 PM (HjPtV)
Posted by: joeindc44 says choom on fuckers at June 14, 2012 02:10 PM (QxSug)
McCain disputes the notion that he has rejected entreaties to cooperate with the White House because he is bitter from his defeat four years ago.
Posted by: All the ships @ sea at June 14, 2012 02:13 PM (e8kgV)
Posted by: Barack Obama's Secret Gay Boyfriend at June 14, 2012 05:55 PM (XvHmy)
Ouch! Even that made my hemorrhoids hurt.
Posted by: Samuel Adams at June 14, 2012 02:14 PM (ZOf1l)
Posted by: The Pig at June 14, 2012 02:16 PM (yq0/b)
Posted by: Dave S. at June 14, 2012 02:18 PM (k/Mc/)
Posted by: Jean at June 14, 2012 02:32 PM (uekSI)
Posted by: Tsar Nicholas II at June 14, 2012 02:35 PM (f8XyF)
Posted by: profligatewaste at June 14, 2012 02:36 PM (q5wLf)
Posted by: Cricket at June 14, 2012 02:40 PM (DrC22)
When you' ve lost Jonathan Alter, you've lost....
A fat little balding middle age leftist who has been a professional sycophant for Bill Clinton and now Barry Soetoro Obama.
And this is part of the little media army that marches for Obama. He as much as admits that apple -polishing Obama's empty rhetoric is not helping him. We have to help him!!! That's the underlying message.
Help Barack! Help him!!
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes...... at June 14, 2012 03:04 PM (sJTmU)
Posted by: Bill Clinton, Still Ridiculously Fucking Relevant at June 14, 2012 03:06 PM (IoNBC)
Posted by: steevy at June 14, 2012 03:08 PM (Xb3hu)
Posted by: It was da Jooooooooooos! at June 14, 2012 03:08 PM (mxnUd)
Guess there are limits to the emotional Viagara of Obamaism...the effect wears off and you are left with....nothing.
Posted by: standfast24 at June 14, 2012 03:43 PM (s4wkw)
Posted by: andrew sullivan at June 14, 2012 03:57 PM (WUcSM)
Posted by: skinnydipinacid at June 14, 2012 05:09 PM (F7XAG)
Obama needs to stop saying the economy is getting better
.......fair enough
Obama should stop demonizing Mitt Romney
........can't complain
ObamaÂ’s at risk of losing his unique, hopey-changey brand
........it's already gone
The president needs a clearer agenda for his second term
........good luck with this one
Posted by: Bernie Madeoff at June 14, 2012 06:54 PM (e8kgV)
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Posted by: Chris Matthews at June 14, 2012 01:24 PM (QKKT0)