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Ed Morrison · Shameful
September 11th, 2008
On a day when hundreds of Ohio leaders gathered to discuss the serious competitive challenges facing our state, the U.S. economy shows continued serious weakness, the financial markets still try to settle after the U.S. government engineers the world’s largest bailout, investment bank Lehman Brothers stands on the brink of another bailout, the recognition starts hitting home that our poor educational performance is creating severe competitive consequences, and the bleeding of petrodollars accelerates, the Republican Party and the McCain campaign skirt the edge of legality and absurdity by talking about putting lipstick on pigs.
Shameful.
Last 5 posts by Ed Morrison
- Managing a regional strategy - February 9th, 2010
- Northeast Ohio and the color of dinosaurs - February 5th, 2010
- Moving regions toward open innovation - February 4th, 2010
- What's next for the Future Fund and the Cleveland Foundation? - February 4th, 2010
- Looking at the Third Frontier - January 31st, 2010
September 11th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
My grandmother a naturalized American citizen died shortly after 9/11 in 2001. She watched the Twin Towers go down and for the only time in my life I remember her one criticism of the United States–How can a people take for granted that they never before had to live in terror–the terror she experience in war-torn Europe during WWII? She also related the horror Europe experienced when the allies firebombed Dresden. How can we as a country take so much for granted and so easily forget the past.
September 11th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
Ed if you really want to bang your head on the wall, read http://www.politico/arena… many journalists weigh in on why we can’t discuss issues. I call it the Jerry Springerization of the U.S. but my question is, who is the chicken and who is the egg? Do a majority of the readers read crap because that is all there is or is it what is demanded by readers?
September 11th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
Idiocracy
September 11th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
Carole:
I have no idea.
All I know is that I spent yesterday in rural New Hampshire exploring ways to reduce high school drop-outs and increase apprenticeships. The region has been turned upside down by the closing of a large paper mill.
I came back to the hotel, turn on the television, and find out that McCain has been talking about putting lipstick on pigs.
Amazing.
September 12th, 2008 at 4:12 am
Ed, they have written off the informed voter [like you] and are going after the “low information” voter [their term] who has no concept of financial bailouts.
Hopefully those folks in NH do NOT vote against their own economic self interest.
September 12th, 2008 at 10:38 am
To my mind, Rove and his progeny have proven one point: You can be both an expert at winning elections and an incompetent at governing.
September 12th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
You know, I wonder why no one’s calling on Ms. Palin to apologize for her insults. For example, my wife is a hockey mom. On theother hand, a pit bull is a dog. My wife sometimes wears lipstick. Was Sarah calling my wife a dog? I guess it’s consistent with “small town values” to call awaoman a dog. Priceless.
September 12th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
Paul Krugman forcefully addresses these points in his column today. He points out that at least the Bush campaign would artfully lie. These guys are doing it so ham-handedly and cartoonishly, as if they were speaking to a nation of idiots. Makes me ashamed to have ever supported McCain. He seems to have completely lost his mental, emotional and intellectual bearings, in a way that almost defies comprehension. How sad.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/12/opinion/12krugman.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin
September 12th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
There’s a great collection of video clips highlighting McCain flat-out lies, contradictions and mis-statements at http://www.therealmccain.com. This collection speaks for itself, and very eloquently tells the story of a politician who continues to do and say whatever he thinks it will take to get elected, despite the fact that he frequently blatantly contradicts previous statements.
September 13th, 2008 at 1:59 am
it just seems like john mccain will do ANYTHING to be president. ANYTHING! he is willing to lie in the name of his campaign slogan COUNTRY FIRST.
September 13th, 2008 at 2:00 am
Now that empty-hat, never-done-anything Obama wants to talk substantive issues, it’s shameful that Republicans are playing politics. Sorry, but this is a tempest in a teapot, Ed. If you want to do away with this kind of nonsense in politics, you have to start with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and the Clinton smear machine.
September 13th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Bill Moyers had a good story about this last night, too – he interviewed Les Payne and Brooke Gladstone. You can watch the video online.
My favorite quote:
LES PAYNE:I think that media, and I use that term advisedly, too often go to ask the polling question as opposed to doing the reporting. We have to inform our readers first, as opposed to asking them what they think about something we have not told them about. So, to the question of [who would you vote for] if the election was held today, I mean, the answer is, ‘I would be very surprised because I thought it was in November.’ [emphasis mine]
Also note the squirmworthy clip of John McCain being interviewed by a local TV reporter in Maine. It cheers my little heart to see reporters asking tough questions.
September 13th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Jonathan:
I keep expecting more insight from you on the political front. You continue to disappoint.
Perhaps the best commentary on this mess I’ve seen comes from Craig Furgeson on late night television:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdRVQ4xwwmQ
September 13th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
TY Christine, informative video. I also think this is telling: http://ipsnorthamerica.net/news.php?idnews=1687 only one in five Intnat’l people polled felt a McCain presidency would improve the U.S.’ world image
September 14th, 2008 at 11:46 am
NYTimes editorial:
More.
September 14th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
Ed, Ferguson/YouTube…ty ty ty for the link. Nothing like a newly minted citizen to get to what’s important
September 14th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
Ed, the game is dominating the media cycle. Both sides play it. They use whatever they can get their hands on, no matter how silly or trivial or distorted from reality. The media conspires to participate in it. It’s tabloid journalism blended with entertainment. It’s revolting AND amusing at once. It speaks directly to where American media is today and, sadly to how elections are won on the margins.
If you’re going to wag your finger at it, wag it at everybody involved, including BOTH parties and their consultants, the media, and the portion of the electorate that thrives on this. What’s shameful is to blame it just on Republicans, as if that’s the real problem.
September 14th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
Shorter version of J. Murray: “I know you are, but what am I?”
September 16th, 2008 at 6:51 am
Jonathan:
Lest you forget, my original post was prompted by McCain’s ad about putting lipstick on a pig.
Now, even Karl Rove believes that matters have gotten out of hand. http://snurl.com/3qov4 http://snurl.com/3qov4 When Karl Rove says McCain commercials go too far, things have gone too far.
(The remark will likely power Obama’s contributors to new heights.)
If I were Obama’s advisor, I would go after these charges hard (as they are starting to do). The reason: if you really want to elevate the campaign, you first need to discipline bad behavior. Clearly, McCain has lost control of his campaign to his handlers.
Robert Axelrod makes this point clear. In his research focuses on the emergence of cooperation in complex systesm. He reported his initial research about twenty years ago in his book, The Evolution of Cooperation.
It turns out that in complex systems, if you want to induce cooperation, the simple strategy of TIT FOR TAT is most effective.
September 16th, 2008 at 11:39 am
You can learn more about Axelrod’s Evolution of Cooperation here
September 17th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
what has happened to brewed fresh daily? where are all the bloggers? a year ago, i had a choice in the blogroll of 15-20 NEO writers. Now? It’s the Morrison show.
Sheesh.
September 18th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
BFD, RIP (at least as we have known and loved it). George did an incredible job of sustaining this unique resource for six-plus long years, but he now has a demanding fulltime job and other responsibilities and interests that have understandably divided his attention. It was bound to happen eventually. BFD remains a virtual community hub, just a different kind.