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Props to Chuck. That was a good piece.
Agreed.
Yuk.
Nice work, Chuck! :D
Good one, Chuck!
Here is what\’s happening back at campaign headquarters while the candidates are away!
I got one word for you C, \”Ehrensenf\”
Been there, done that! Have you checked her, I mean the show, out on a Friday? I tried translating once via dotSub but my file got chewed up on conversion and I never tried again. The innuendos and jokes are too specific and my time is limited also for things like coming back here to see what\’s been added since an hour ago!
I\’m disappointed you didn\’t get to meet Joanne. They should have sent a limo to pick you up. Then you could have posted some candid pics with Jo. Co.
Not even a tease of \”yoohoo, here I am!\” from a balcony or window. I\’m a respectable business guy with a family, not some comments piranha! I did meet the CEO of dotSub so I must be OK, right?
Sorry yall, we havent figured out yet how to manage these types of requests. It really sucks not being able to meet up with people more often.
If we could ever entertain visitors to the studio, we\’d certainly have you C-C. B-Man though? Too risky. :) heh, Just kiddin there B.
Yeah Drew, I don\’t know if I\’d trust \”me\” either…however, if Joanne were in the room I\’d behave.
Promise! After seeing her mean kick boxing style, I wouldn\’t tempt fate or other parts of my anatomy.
All kidding aside it would have been nice but I never did \’officially\’ ask to visit. Next time.
Of course there is leron\’s rib fest where we could all meet up! Just need the time & place… and possibly plane tickets.
Maybe I should plant clues to the location in old comment archives.
At the risk of beating a dead horse, I’d like to chime in again with a concern I’ve raised earlier. I love Rockebooms’ and Chuck Olsen’s work and probably agree with 80 percent or more of your views. However, even if your campaign coverage is objective and dispassionate, Rocketboom and Chuck should disclose Drew’s and Chuck’s apparent financial connection to the Edwards Campaign, so viewers can assess it when watching your videos. In a day when videobloggers are asserting their legitimate rights as the people’s journalists, I believe you need to make such full disclosure part of your stock-in-trade.
I attempted to post this before. If this is a duplicate, I apologize for my technical ineptitude.
Happy to keep anyone interested informed. Yes, in addition to working with Edwards before, we have been hired by the Edweards campaign to develop an online project which has been in the works for months and we hope to roll it out very soon.
In the case of this report, here is how it came to be:
Chuck wrote to us and said he was going to be covering the Kos Con and wanted to know if we would like to run an episode on it. We said yes and paid for admission to the event.
Then Chuck sent us a link to the finished video and asked us if we wanted to see any changes. We made no requests for edits (almost always the case with our correspondents), and put the video up today.
When I watched the video, I thought other audience members might wonder if it was biased in favor of Hillary. I think Edwards was also underplayed so I certainly did not get the sense that this was a video which supports or is biased towards Edwards.
BTW, I am personally rooting for Edwards at this point, but Rocketboom is not going to endorse any particular primary candidate, we just want people to look into it for themselves and vote.
We have had Edwards on Rocketboom a lot because we have access to him as his campaign reaches out to us.
None of the other candidates, Democratic or Republican have ever reached out.
Come on Hillary! Reach out and touch Rocketboom.
Since it\’s a man thing (demographically speaking), it\’s right up your alley.
By the way, how was Edward\’s hair Chuck? Were any out of place? You know how one bad hair day can ruin an entire campaign.
TECH SUPPORT!
No can see RB screen.
B-man, are you unable to upgrade your browser? Otherwise, just add a /flash to any url and watch in flash, or add a /wmv
For instance, today\’s episode in flash:
http://www.rocketboom.com/stories/rb_07_aug_08/flash
Today\’s episode in Windows Media:
http://www.rocketboom.com/stories/rb_07_aug_08/wmv
Or how \’bout Firefox?
Hi Drew, sorry but I was born without the appropriate upgrade gene. Tragic I know. Well you have to play with the hand you\’re dealt, so I cannot enter the world of Safari 2.0.0 or whatever. I was able to watch today\’s episode in Quicktime. I clicked on your link and it worked, but then if I want to comment, I have to go back here and one of these days I\’ll get real dizzy…and fall out of bed.
What happened anyway? Did you guys upgrade, because I only started experiencing this problem a week or so ago. Before that a single \”refresh\” made things right.
I think it\’s a Kos Con-spiracy…can there be any other explanation?
To me these candidates are all alike…Obama is going to bomb Pakistan..yeah..right…and Hillary is going to force the Simpsons to re-issue their first movie in 3-D, cause she looks much better in 3-D glasses. The ladyman will do anything for a photo op.
As I told those 2 political mavens who featured my \”Three Stooges\” response on their blog, I still feel the same about politics. Used to be into it, not anymore… and all the blog/vlog stuff will do is catch \”the candidates\” in uncompromising situations which will just add to the nonsense. I don\’t think America is interested in issues so much as who fucked up and how and where…(Paris Hilton is a poor example…but there have already been questions on blogs as to whether Hillary had a boob job. (Now that\’s important, right? zzzzzzzzzzzzz)
The American public has the lowest voter turnout of any democracy, what 30%!!! Also, this pre-campaign and pre pre-campaign has been going on so long, once it really gets up to speed, people will be so burnt out, all they will want to do is watch \”The Three Stooges\”.
I mean you can\’t go wrong with those guys, cause they always deliver…nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.
B-man, I\’ll sell you my old (6 months) iMac 24\” cheap because
![](\"http://images2.wikia.com/rocketboom/images/4/41/Appleimac_195951d.jpg\"/)
I\’m getting one of these!
Now all I need is Scarlett Johansson to show me some keyboard shortcuts &….
Kam, I was thinking the same thing. Chuck the computer and go out on a date with Scarlett & Cate. No Mac can compete with such an awesome threesome.
Let me know if you like the new iMac, mate.
I laughed out loud at the sound of all those keyboards clicking away while Hillary spoke. Nice mixing, Chuck.
That was almost as funny as Kos’s line about “democratizing infrastructure.â€
Maybe no one gets to judge the bloggers. But that doesn’t mean that what they’re doing automatically has merit. I’m still not sure what all this democracy has done for us.
I think the notion that somehow the blogs are pushing progressive change is specious, and maybe a little bit self-aggrandizing.
Maybe a little more light gets shined on scumbags – I’m sure George Allen would agree. And maybe a little more raw data gets sifted, Although most of the sifting is being done by amateurs who don’t really know what they’re looking at.
What has it all changed? At the end of the day you still have a little cadre of professional politicians standing on the stage, shilling for your money and your time. All the democratizing infrastructure in the world hasn’t changed that equation a bit.
Instead of being some sort of change agent, I think the blogosphere is more like a much bigger funnel, which the old-time political machines are using to try and suck dollars and volunteer hours from a larger group of potential donees. The Dems are keen on the web because they saw Howard Dean use it to raise millions without kissing the usual collection of butts. Beyond that it’s business as usual for them.
As for knocking down convention walls, etc.: Can I see a show of hands? How many people think we aren’t getting enough coverage of major party conventions? It’s all over by then, it’s just a coronation ceremony and a big PR push. What stories will intrepid bloggers file that we are currently missing out on?
Ninety percent of what I read on blogs is pure crap, be it coming from the so-called left or the so-called right. Maybe 98 percent. For every wingnut screeching about DemoRats doing Osama’s bidding, there’s a rootnut waving a 9/11 conspiracy URL in our collective faces. Blogs function largely to let people vent what they already believe in their closed-off little heads. People seek out blogs that they already agree with, just like your grandparents seek out Fox News. In both media the main message is, “See? We told you.”
There are, of course, blogs and websites that contribute meaningfully to the national conversation. Guess what? They’re populated by people whose knowledge, experience and training makes it possible for them to dig meaningfully to get at new information and make sense of it.
That’s a far cry from sitting in your basement in your jammies taking angry potshots and thinking you’re part of a new power structure.
(Damn, my drawstring’s broken.)
leron, you just spent 450+ words blogging about how pointless most blogging is. Now technically that may not be self-contradictory but it strikes me as coming mighty close. Let\’s just say I find your comments typically have a much higher \’point to word\’ ratio.
I don\’t claim to be saving the world, dude. I just write what hits me.
I like the last quote from Markus.
Markus Aurelious?
“To the death, thine poison ivy stingeth mine eyes.”
That one?
sorry,
I meant Markos.
Funny you should mention that quote. They won\’t be able to judge us, or something to that effect. Seemed odd to me - I think what\’s happening with mainstream media is more programming the populous than judging anybody.
Hey Jay…
![](\"http://images2.wikia.com/rocketboom/images/a/aa/ONtheBUS.jpg\"/)
or maybe ride with Willie Nelson!
later people
Right On, bro!
I want it, I want it, I want it…
You can\’t have it!
I agree with leron. I didn’t hear anything that I haven’t heard on the Sunday political shows. The candidates are still saying what they think you want to hear. What’s the big deal?
The twist is now there\’s a whole new batch of people writing up their version of what they heard and posting it on their blogs; without getting paid, in hopes of getting noticed!
I predict more \”sensational-tabloid\” journalism than anything else.
These are seasoned politicians, They smile, walk, talk and bend as prescribed by their handlers and pollsters…if you have a cell camera in the washroom
maybe you\’ll get a scoop… (ewww that didn\’t sound right at all…Freud, Freud…I made a slip-up…can you pick up…the phone…it\’s those vloggers…they made me say something from my unconscious…I know…\”repress, repress…respress…where is Monica\’s dress\” repeat 10 times till calm.)
Why don’t they just vote?
BTW, that’s Hillary on the left.
Good to see you crack a joke every now & then Drew, keeping it light works wonders.
btw, I\’m the third bobbie from the right.
Let’s Woomba!
http://www.funny-video-stuff.com/viewmovie.php?id=529
I don’t want to tell you I told you so, but I just checked out the latest news headlines 3 seconds ago, and look what I read:
DEBATE AUDIENCE FADES AWAY; UNDER A MILLION VIEWERS
(it’s a tough job being psychic, but somebody’s got to do it)
I really appreciate your minus, it has made me a better Man.
b