Some of you may remember my Tacitus post about the DNC’s plans to offer press credentials to bloggers this campaign season (which is, of course, a very good idea of theirs). There’s a possibility that the RNC might follow suit… which, if they do, becomes very, very tempting. My folks live on the Jersey Shore, you see: I could probably get the time off…
So, some questions:
1) Do our readers find the idea of quasi-official blogging from either convention intriguing enough to encourage us to do it?
2) Do our readers find the idea of quasi-official blogging from either convention intriguing enough to make the setting up of PayPal accounts to cover transportation costs worthwhile?
3) Does anybody really ever make any money off of this blogging thing, anyway? Yeah, I know that Andy says that he does, but I’m betting that it’s just the Trilateral Commission or the Priory of Sion or Shangri-la laundering the Illuminati subsidies.
Oooh! Ooh! Send me! I promise to be fair and balanced.
I’ll kick in if Edward has to stay in NYC for the Republican convention and you have to go to Boston and see Teddy.
I’ll even pay for a substitute puppeteer for Edward.
But to read cheerleading from each side? Nope you’re on your own then.
I might even have a place for you stay in Boston.
With regards to praktike, I might have an opening with the shanty Irish.
OT, the silver lining?
“There are mixed reactions concerning the scandal. In Iraq itself everyone agrees it’s a scandal and it is unacceptable and some parts of Iraqi society feel that by declaring it and investigating, this is the right course of action and they’re hoping to see action taken regarding the accused. Other people think that this is a kind of pattern that was consistent from the beginning of the occupation and that adds up to the feeling of the people that the occupation didn’t do the right thing from the beginning. That’s in Iraq.
In the rest of the Arab world, of course a lot of people feel that this is unacceptable and it amounts to a crime that needs punishment for the perpetrators. And there is a part of the intellectual and journalistic fields that feel that yes, it’s a violation of human rights but we have to look also into violations of other human rights in other Middle East countries that are not known and not reported.”
I’ll pay to bring Moe to New York. So long as he promises a line or two on the superiority of my particular puppet (there’s a contest, you know…just kidding). ;-]
Seriously though, I support this effort.
It’s like being at the forefront of a new age in media. Giving the mainstream press a taste of what non-annual-report-bottom-line-driven commentary can do.
Edward, since you already live in NYC it seems you should be the one to blog from the RNC. Why have people pay money when you are already there? Let folks save that money for their favorite campaigns.
Tempting Wilfred, but I suspect the point is to have sympathetic voices sending talking points back to the front lines. I agree it would be fascinating to hear Moe’s firsthand account of the Boston (D) Party, though.
Come to think of it, limiting the passes to sympathetic bloggers would be ravaged in the blogosphere, so what would be the point?
Moe? Your thoughts?
Edward, I think the clear solution is for you to pretend to be Moe and vice-versa.
Moe can hang out in the WonderDog House, and you can hang out in your house. Wear your Moe mustache and glasses, and the Secret Service won’t know the diff.
“Moe? Your thoughts?”
Let me make for the public record the statement that, if we were to attend these events, of course we should be going to the conventions of our actual parties. To pretend to belong to the Other Party just to get a press pass… well. The very idea.
(Centauri voice)
I believe that we understand each other, yes?
(/Centauri voice)
Personally I would find the coverage much more interesting if Moe was in Boston and Edward in NYC. Nothing like a little objectivity. And Moe in a beret would be major selling point. But then Edward would have to work on the lemon pepper chicken.
Moe,
About going to Boston; I can understand watching the “Night of the Living Dead” being fimed – but to actually live it? I suppose with the anti-nausea drugs available it could be experienced – but what’s the point?
I’d love to do either party, and if anyone here gives me ten-bill, I will thank them on my blog. (Minor part being that it would take at least a hundred more to get there, besides.)
I’ll be living in New York during when the Dems are in Boston and in Boston when the G.O.P. is in New York. And my wedding anniversary takes precedence over hearing how, in all John Kerry’s years in public life (fill in the blank).
I planned on being in New York for the RNC anyway as long as it didn’t stop me from registering for classes, and would be happy to go in on the off chance I could get credentials–no transportation or housing costs required. But I feel like the Republican and the New Yorker should have dibs on that one.
I don’t think cheerleading is actually that much of a danger, whoever covers what.
And Moe in a beret would be major selling point.
For the record, I do NOT wear a beret.
“For the record, I do NOT wear a beret.”
The amusing part is, I plan to wear one for next year’s Halloween Party (Theme: Come As Your Evil Twin. I plan to go as a deconstructionalist intellectual named mAuri3ce*, complete with beret and Che shirt). I must remember to have photos taken.
As for lemon pepper chicken, too much of both and you get Pseudo-Blackened Faux-Cajun Chicken. It wasn’t bad, but man, was it ever emphatic.
Moe
*The 3 being silent, you see.
The 3 being silent, you see.
It goes without saying, doesn’t it?