Thursday, February 19, 2009

Is he black, or is he Jamie Kennedy?

GOP Chairman Michael Steele:
We want to convey that the modern-day GOP looks like the conservative party that stands on principles. But we want to apply them to urban-suburban hip-hop settings.
Honestly, the quote speaks for itself. It ain't exactly Howard Dean's fifty state strategy. But it is what is to be expected of a party that seems to think that two successive electoral bitchslaps are the result of insufficiently aggressive messaging. The truth is, if anything, exactly the opposite--the GOP press operation was functioning just fine during the stimulus debate. Believe you me, we know what you stand for. We know. And we don't care much for it.

The obsession with communication strategies within the GOP is what gave all of us Michael Steele, who is proving on an almost daily presence to be a joke.

The Man, The Myth, The Bio

East Bay, California, United States
Problem: I have lots of opinions on politics and culture that I need to vent. If I do not do this I will wind up muttering to myself, and that's only like one or two steps away from being a hobo. Solution: I write two blogs. A political blog that has some evident sympathies (pro-Obama, mostly liberal though I dissent on some issues, like guns and trade) and a culture blog that does, well, cultural essays in a more long-form manner. My particular thing is taking overrated things (movies, mostly, but other things too) down a peg and putting underrated things up a peg. I'm sort of the court of last resort, and I tend to focus on more obscure cultural phenomena.