Sunday, October 30, 2011
Who's worthy of the media?
Rober woodward talks about the Media’s coverage of the 1988 campaign, and he says that C-span news reporters only covered candidates that they thought would “make it”. A candidates worth had a lot to do with the media coverage they received or if they received any coverage at all. How interesting is that? If the media didn’t see you as viable, then no one really knew much about you?
Biased or not?
Michael Robinson says the press . . . (major media networks), aren't about "issues" per say, they’re more about scandals and credentials. They aren't necessarily biased, they are equally critical of every party and like Robinson says, their goal is to show america the problems and taboo's with either party
How people respond to the media
William Adams talks about how the media treats certain states as far as their importance goes for the election and the legitimacy that it gives certain candidates if they don't take that state seriously.
Battlefield
So what exactly can impact a party’s votes?
According to an article from The Washington Post, the Occupy Wall Street movement might stir up some negative results for the Democrats. Not the movement itself, but violent clashes that the media that has brought to our attention. The movement has been acknowledged by many Democratic politicians so the Republicans have a great deal to jab at, especially since Democrats ave already tried laying out attacks on the republicans for being extreme tea party activists.
What would make this a great story for the Republicans?
Well, as we all know, the protest has been quite peaceful, but just a few streaks of violence can really give the entire movement a bad stench. Rachel Weiner of the Washington Post writes, “Just as Democrats tried to tie Republicans to the most extreme tea party activists, the Massachusetts Republican Party is already attacking Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren as the “Matriarch of Mayhem” for saying she helped create an intellectual foundation for the protests”
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The video provides the framework for which the Democrats can bash the Democrats and the route they would take in doing so. They take a few quotes from Democrats and fit them into one clip to make them look bad. Essentially saying look at these Democrats and what they stand for, is this the party that you want to run your nation?
The media is so quick to capture the negativity but are reluctant to show the positive proponents. So far, we know that the protests have been rather peaceful, but for someone that doesn’t necessarily look into the movement and doesn’t keep up, this video would provide a complete basis for their outlook.
The violence in Oakland has been the basis for the negative media coverage lately. The city sent police to clear out protesters. This disrupted the peace amongst the protesters and they didn’t seem to like it very much because they weren’t doing anything wrong. Why is it the protesters faults when police fired teargas at them and didn’t them protest like the rest of the country? Isn’t it our right to assemble and isn’t freedom of speech our right as well? What do the Republicans have to say about that?
I personally don’t think the Republicans have a basis for which to attack the Democrats. The Democrats speak of the movement itself, not all the people individually. Pollster Stan Greenberg seems to agree that what’s going on with the Occupy Wall Street movement isn’t going to affect how the nation feels about the Democrats. Weiner writes,
“Pollster Stan Greenberg argues that the violent clash in Oakland won’t much change public opinion, pointing out that there was already a large gap between support for the goals of the movement and support for the movement itself, suggesting there’s already “some ambivalence on methods” — an ambivalence that has always existed about civil disobediance, including during the civil-rights movement.”
Funny guy campaign
Cheers to Steve Berke. Here’s this young 30 something year old that is running for mayor of Miami, but he isn’t just the ordinary candidate, he’s the extraordinary candidate. When I read an article about him in the New York Times (posted below), I thought about a specific conversation I had in my political science class: Road to The White house. We had discussed a president’s personality and what we look for in a man running our country. Some said they would rather have a more stern and serious president, while others disagreed and wanted someone they can relate to and connect with, someone with personality and a certain quirkiness, and of course the ability to be president ( whatever that means).
Although Berke isn’t running for president, he is running for a rather serious role, but his attitude, maybe not so serious. In the video posed up top, we get a certain vibe from this man and without a doubt he’s funny, outgoing, charming, and last but not least, a young bachelor. I watched the video and found it hilarious-he had me, almost. He describes everything anyone my age desires and is accustomed to or at least would want to be accustomed to. He’s got that edge to him that makes it hard to dislike him, and that’s hard to dismiss.
When looking at this guy, I absolutely love him, but I would probably just want to hang out with him not exactly look up to him as the mayor of Miami. I’m not about the whole “political correctness” thing but I feel as though the line has to be drawn somewhere because humor is a wonderful thing, but politics are a serious matter. It is a matter of being able to take someone seriously or not. It is hard to take this guy seriously and after all, he IS a comedian. Oh, and I think I failed to mention that he isn’t part of the Democratic party nor the Republican party, which is fine… but he has developed his own political party called the “After party”. It speaks for itself.
So where exactly can we find this guy? Lisette Alvarez of The New York Times writes:
MIAMI BEACH — wearing a black suit and tie with neon-pink laces on his kicks, the man in the video struggles up Ocean Drive, past the Art Deco hotels and the hangovers they house. He pulls a trolley freighted with two voting machines — the ones that hung those chads long ago and made election infamy. “Easy come, easy go, time for me to say hello,” he sings soulfully into the camera in a parody of Bruno Mars’s video “Grenade.” “My name is Steve Berke, and I am running to be mayor, yo. Is he real? Do you know? Is he one big joke? I can promise you it’s real.”
Fortunately for Steve, his chief opponent is the present mayor Matti Herrera Bower who is 72 years old and has been mayor for 2 terms already. She’s got a lot to bring to the table, like her experience and grandmother credentials … sounds like she might take the votes, OR probably not.
Although Berke isn’t running for president, he is running for a rather serious role, but his attitude, maybe not so serious. In the video posed up top, we get a certain vibe from this man and without a doubt he’s funny, outgoing, charming, and last but not least, a young bachelor. I watched the video and found it hilarious-he had me, almost. He describes everything anyone my age desires and is accustomed to or at least would want to be accustomed to. He’s got that edge to him that makes it hard to dislike him, and that’s hard to dismiss.
When looking at this guy, I absolutely love him, but I would probably just want to hang out with him not exactly look up to him as the mayor of Miami. I’m not about the whole “political correctness” thing but I feel as though the line has to be drawn somewhere because humor is a wonderful thing, but politics are a serious matter. It is a matter of being able to take someone seriously or not. It is hard to take this guy seriously and after all, he IS a comedian. Oh, and I think I failed to mention that he isn’t part of the Democratic party nor the Republican party, which is fine… but he has developed his own political party called the “After party”. It speaks for itself.
So where exactly can we find this guy? Lisette Alvarez of The New York Times writes:
MIAMI BEACH — wearing a black suit and tie with neon-pink laces on his kicks, the man in the video struggles up Ocean Drive, past the Art Deco hotels and the hangovers they house. He pulls a trolley freighted with two voting machines — the ones that hung those chads long ago and made election infamy. “Easy come, easy go, time for me to say hello,” he sings soulfully into the camera in a parody of Bruno Mars’s video “Grenade.” “My name is Steve Berke, and I am running to be mayor, yo. Is he real? Do you know? Is he one big joke? I can promise you it’s real.”
Fortunately for Steve, his chief opponent is the present mayor Matti Herrera Bower who is 72 years old and has been mayor for 2 terms already. She’s got a lot to bring to the table, like her experience and grandmother credentials … sounds like she might take the votes, OR probably not.
I can sit here and bash them both, but sincerely, they both have great credentials, even Steve. Steve is a Yale graduate, believe it or not and has done a great deal for himself. He won two national tennis championships, was a contestant on the fox reality show “The Rebel Billionaire” and was able to successfully market and sell his own product (travel pillow) that he created on the show. He then became a comedian, and now he’s running for Mayor. YOU DECIDE.
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Republican platform
Newt Gingrich, 2012 republican candidate talks about the republican platform vs the democratic platform and how much more it has to offer. He's very to the point with each platform he announces.
Politics
Curtis DuBay talks about the democratic party platform and the capital gains rate that exists which is said to help the middle class, but apparently that isn't so. He talks about tax rate extensions as well as many other proposals Obama has introduced.
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