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Sunday, December 18, 2005
New rule #24
New rule, Political conventions are important, and therefore they deserve to be broadcast and veiwed in their entirety. You can't call everyone in washington morons if you don't know exactly what makes them morons.
The comventional wisdom about conventions is that they're no longer worthy of our attetion because they're too "Produced" and there's no "drama". You want drama? hitch a ride home with Ted Kennedy. WE're picking presidents here, not the last comic standing. The media treats these conventions like pointless interruptions of their real job, which seems to be comvering LA's latest celebrity murder trial. No surprises, no excitement. Hey, you know what's exciting? It's exciting when politicians get drunk with power because people aren't keeping an eye on them. No one expected we'd retaliate foe 9/11 by attacking.... Iraq! WHoo, unpredictable, exciting!
And the reason the conventions are so "Produced: is because if they weren't, the networks wouldn't air them at all. To me, the sight of John Kerry rushing through his 2004 acceptance speech in a cold sweat so that he wouldn't go overtime and force veiwers to miss the first 2 minutes of Elimidate was one of the saddest moments in the history of democracy. The man is laying out his plan for ruling the globe, and we're treating him like it's audition night at the improv and he just got the light.
I'm not saying everyone has to pore over issues and read everything that's out there---We can't even get our president to do that. But the conventions are one of the only times when the election isn't reduced to sound bites and attack ads, when you can get to know these people a little. It's not exciting enough just to hear Teresa Heinz Kerry? SOrry, next time we''l get Justin Timberlake to whip out her tit.
Maybe the conventions aren't boring; maybe it's the people who don't participate in their own society who are boring. Once every 4 years, the two parties put on a pageant for you: "These are our faces; these are our voices; this is our vision of America's future." You'd think that would be a little more interesting than reruns of Yes, Dear.
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