Okay, so this is not strictly a diary. It is based on comments I made which I have decided to turn into a diary. I would prefer to call it a collective appeal to the excellent skills present in this community.
Yesterday I sent an email to JedReport with the information attached below, wondering whether he would be interested in making an ad along the lines described. I haven't heard back yet, either because:
- my email was classified as SPAM (probability: v. low)
- Jed is very busy working on his own excellent stuff and doesn't have time for additional suggestions by a rank amateur like myself (probability: about as high as Palin not lasting on the ticket till Nov. 4)
- I am totally overinflating my own sense of how good my suggestion is, and not realising that it's actually just crap. (Probability: also pretty high)
The key to destroying McCain's chances is to highlight the superior Judgement that Barack Obama possesses and has displayed compared to John McCain. While this can be demonstrated in a number of areas, no decision can be better highlighted than his selection of Palin. For two main reasons:
- His first major decision as Presidential nominee is to make a last-minute selection of an unvetted unknown politican.
If decisions are going to be made like that, do you really want someone like that entrusted with the keys to the White House? It goes back to what Obama stated in his acceptance speech as the
"temperament and judgement" to be Commander in Chief and President
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Is it responsible, is it an exercise of good judgement if you will - one
in the NATIONAL INTEREST - to put on the no. 2 spot someone with extremely limited experience who quite realistically could be asked to fill the shoes of an elderly man with a history of previous illness?
We on this site all know this, but these are the two key points which must bear repetition until it sticks in the minds of the voting public.
And so I put together the following small ad structure, doesn't have to last longer than 30-45 seconds, which would fuse these points together in a succint way.
What I am asking is if anyone could string this together into a small ad, as I haven't the foggiest clue how to do so? The source material is all provided below.
Thank you for reading this. (And now I'm off to get some sleep as it's already very late here).
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Frame 1
Start the ad by screen recording "Sarah Palin" being typed into the Google search bar and then pressing "I'm feeling lucky" and letting the results come up (preferably something like Wikipedia)
Sound effect: either sound of typing, or "Luck be a Lady" (Frank Sinatra) or "The Gambler" (Kenny Rogers)
Frame 2
Text on screen: "[T]he McCain team used little more than a Google Internet search as part of a rushed effort to review Palin's potential pitfalls."
Source: L.A. Times, 2 September 2008
http://www.latimes.com/...
Background: dark
Sound effect: continued music from before
Frame 3
Text on screen: "We’re going through a process where you get a whole bunch of names, and ya ... Well, basically, it’s a Google. You just, you know, what you can find out now on the Internet. It’s remarkable, you know."
http://www.youtube.com/...
Background: dark
Sound effect: audio track of youtube clip mentioned here
Frame 4
Bash: "And I know you don't want to talk about the process of picking a vice president, but in terms of your approach, do you, in all candor -- straight talk -- think about your age when you -- and the fact that you're 71, will be 72, when you are deciding who would be a potential president?"
McCain: "I think about whether that person who I select would be most prepared to take my place. And that would be the key criteria."
[01:37 – 01:44 on Mediamatters clip]
Source: April 1 edition of CNN's The Situation Room
http://mediamatters.org/...
Frame 5
And finish by having her ask the question "What exactly is it the VP does all day"?
http://www.youtube.com/...
Could even finish with that famous sound interruption/screech (like a needle being taken suddenly off an old LP player)