[lit-ideas] Re: Some of you may remember ... ueber-gaffe
- From: "Judith Evans" <judith.evans001@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:34:35 +0100
If Obama makes this assumption about everything substantial in a debate --
i.e., that a good portion of his audience is cut off, hasn't a clue, was
busy in Vegas or on Vision Quest, is out to lunch, had the "do not
disturb" sign hanging from their sensory deprivation tank --
Like me? I did say, 'like me'. I walked into a nursing home sitting room
to find, as usual, a film on TV. But the sound was not only not blaring, it
was turned off. ? In the film, a plane crashed into a skyscraper. I had
King Kong type thoughts... but suddenly realised this was actually
happening. I didn't strike up an impassioned conversation about it with the
elderly, mainly very deaf, to an extent demented, often depressed, people
sitting in armchairs staring somewhere or other. And when I got my mother
somewhere else I didn't start a political conversation. When I went home I
rested. In the following days, as I said
I didn't talk to anybody about it for about a week, admittedly that's
partly because some people were a bit too stunned to talk, the first
person I had lunch with later clearly was too upset to talk about it.)
and also I was visiting the nursing home every day.
how does he explain that this same
group is in the (real or TV) audience listening to him speak during a
Presidential Debate?
Very easily. Very easily because *I* don't know when I heard what had
actually happened or where I was then, and because then, I was cut off from
the chattering classes and also
because some people were a bit too stunned to talk, the first person I had
lunch with later clearly was too upset to talk about it.
and there will be others like me, though most for different reasons
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Yost" <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 8:48 AM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Some of you may remember ... ueber-gaffe
Judith: "some in the audience might not know where they were and 'how all
the country was ready to come together' etc., as they might have been
(like me) somewhat cut off from political events at that time"
If Obama makes this assumption about everything substantial in a debate --
i.e., that a good portion of his audience is cut off, hasn't a clue, was
busy in Vegas or on Vision Quest, is out to lunch, had the "do not
disturb" sign hanging from their sensory deprivation tank -- how does he
explain that this same group is in the (real or TV) audience listening to
him speak during a Presidential Debate?
Why would they be there? Maybe they took a wrong turn on their way to the
mall?
"Say, Wendy, this isn't 'Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader?' Who
are those serious guys in suits?"
"You're right, Billy Bob. Dang blast that Mapquest!"
Lost in Transition,
Eric
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