http://minimumsecurity.net/blog/2007/10/10/excuse-me-senator/

Sarah Palin is going to be in Philly tomorrow, go make your point heard:

http://steph99.livejournal.com/66597.html

All I’ve gotta do is stay focused (and stop wearing pants)!

If you are unfamiliar with this series, it might be better to start with this one.

Warning: All the GYWO stuff uses language that is not safe for sensitive ears.

1. Play the DVD from which you wish to create a loop using DVD Player application in OS X.
2. At the starting point of your loop, select Controls > New Video Clip  (Fig. 1)
3. This action opens the New Video Clip dialogue with the starting point you selected marked as the beginning; the video is paused (Fig. 2)
4. Set the clip name and press play (Fig. 3)
5. When the endpoint of your loop arrives, click the Set button to mark the end of your loop (Fig. 4)
6. Now be sure to click save or your effort will be wasted (Fig. 5)
7. Now select Go > Video Clips (Fig. 6)
8. Double clicking your clip from the Video Clips menu starts playing the given clip (Fig. 7)
9. To make it loop select Go > Video Clips > Repeat Clip (Fig. 8)
10. Enjoy chilled or over ice.

He makes this kind of excellent point:

Is that what eight years of George Bush as our national figurehead has done? Is the bar so low that going to another country and not making an ass out of yourself our official standard for success?

Well said, sir.  This kind of thought provoking observation that I’d like to get all of my Republican neighbors and relatives to consider.  But your impact is going to be drastically reduced because you’ve camped out so far on your own end of the debate that nobody on the other side of the aisle will even be able to hear your shrill but clever voice.

Why would you say, as if it were the damning evidence, your opinion of Sarah Palin that “She’s fucking dumb, okay?“  I mean, sure that’s probably the case but anyone who doesn’t already agree with you is going to write you off right there, click their back button, and never think about you again.  You’ve gotten their attention and web traffic by creating a zeitgeisty flow chart

(why is this not already posted to graphjam, anyway?), and so you’re getting tons of hits.  You’ve put together some excellent logic with your bullet point list of what we’ve learned from the Palin-Couric interview but it won’t reach the attention of those people who have yet to make up their minds.  You’ve provoked one of the following in people that would be your target audience: anger, dread, frustration.  Notably absent from that list is thought.

Now, this is all assuming you’re trying to make a difference.  If you’re just ranting to rant well … Sorry, my mistake.  Go on with your bad self.  That’s one of the reasons to have a blog at all, I suppose.

But you haven’t made your message something I can send to my Granny or my mom.  Or people like them in battleground states.  I can’t send them a link to your post which says “Sarah Palin is a stupid, self important, ignorant bitch” in the second sentence.  They won’t even get through the first paragraph!  Maybe if you inverted the flow of your rant and lead the audience up to that idea you’d be more effective.  But please, please make yourself relevant.  Entertaining those people “a-carryin’ signs mostly say hoo-ray for our side” isn’t what is needed at this moment.  We need some collateral for everybody who is putting their effort into making the great schlep … especially those of us who can only schlep virtually.

I hope that you have not squandered your genius in the moment of relevance, your fifteen seconds of fame.  You obviously know what you’re doing or you wouldn’t have put your URL in the image that is going viral at this very moment.  Emotions are certainly running high right now and keeping them in check is going to be important if this unusually important election is going to mark an improvement in the world or … well, or worse.