Regarding Palin's rapid departure
“Nobody suddenly announces a resignation on the Friday evening before a holiday weekend if it’s a positive thing.
This isn’t a bid for the presidency. It’s a scandal.” (via marco)
This isn’t a scandal or a anything negative at all. Palin’s resignation on July 3rd guarantees her a front page spot on basically every American newspaper on the most America-focused day of the year (and international media too… she’s all over the BBC here in London). She is playing on the emotions of her supporters and its a brilliant move. The x < 50% of the population that hates Barack Obama wants to get behind something, and right now she is it. This isn’t a scandal. This is her implicit 2012 announcement. It’s a wink to the republican base that absolutely adores her (Yes, New York and California: millions of people LOVE Sarah Palin). She’s playing on the emotions of her supporters who will be all about beating the secret-Muslim-deficit-spending-baby-killer on this Independence Day.
This isn’t a scandal. It’s our worst nightmare (well, not our WORST nightmare… I have a worse nightmare regarding our 44th president). Hopefully the minds at the DNC are on this. But make no mistake, this is not a scandal. It is a shrewd political move. If we don’t take this seriously, she can win. Do not brush this off.
Re-elect the President in 2012.
True. Or it’s a scandal. We’ll know by (a) how Palin behaves in the coming weeks and/or (b) when the smoke from the ethics probe clears.
Kings was awesome, and you suck for cancelling it. But hey, at least you gave I’m a Celebrity a chance, right? It’s a good thing you still have 30 Rock on your air, because that’s the only thing keeping the entirety of your schedule from being unbearable.
Seriously, take a look at the Irish people’s history. Why would you ever consider them to be “lucky?”
Well, as it turns out, we Irish folk used to be pretty depressed and fatalistic about our sordid past. Then we came to America and met some Jews and black people and felt like assholes for complaining.
It’s all relative. Hence the “luck of the Irish.”
I absolutely love this: Post Shredded Wheat has, in one of the savviest advertising campaigns I’ve ever seen, created a webseries called “The Palace of Light.” It is smart, witty, and funny, and, even more brilliantly, viscerally linked to the company that’s running it.
The subtle irony here (at least from an advertising perspective) is that, with a sarcastic message of intentional non-progress, Post Shredded Wheat has fully embraced internet culture to promote its product by advertising on and creating content for the web. Nobody thinks about Post Shredded Wheat right now, and they know that; but what if, suddenly, people are following and talking about a webseries that is produced by Post Shredded Wheat?
That’s the game-changer. Linking your company or organization’s name to quality content with increase awareness and benefit marketing regardless of what your product is. I guarantee it.
