Political candidates are now sending out dvd mailers—videos of themselves talking about their plans for the country. As if life weren’t hard enough! As if there were endless amounts of landfill space to cram with never-watched candidate dvd mailers!
The medium is all wrong, completely contradictory: these are slickly packaged odes to sincerity. It’s like being trapped in a Lily Allen song, where you can’t get the creep in the “casual” suit and $300 sneakers to stop coming on with what a regular guy he is, which he could show you, if you’d just give him a chance.
Slate is running a regular column now that critiques these things along with campaign TV ads. I hope the column gets a lot better than the first installment, which busts the Edwards campaign for editing video to make it seem that… well, I guess to make it seem that Americans are more into speeches about healthcare than they really are into speeches about healthcare. Whew! Gotcha!
Give us some real dirt. Forget boring old John Dickerson. They should hire Lily Allen to critique these grease ball things!
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