rmd: (this is bananas)
rmd ([personal profile] rmd) wrote2008-09-06 08:56 pm

political theater, distilled.

i confess, i haven't bothered watching much of the conventions or even much tv news lately. pretty much all i've been seeing is the occasional youtube link and whatever's on the tv news at the gym. i've been mostly using text news and speech transcripts.

but if you, like me, missed the video from both conventions... here, via [livejournal.com profile] evwhore, is the democratic and republican conventions distilled down to about a minute each.

it's pretty awesome.

oh, and for extra fun, a look at the word frequency per 25000 words from each convention from the new york times

[identity profile] tcb.livejournal.com 2008-09-07 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
omg, that was funny, thank you. I had no idea that 'promise' and 'fight' were used so frequently :)
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[personal profile] tb 2008-09-07 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
What I want to know is how to combine that with the "things to say during sex" flowchart.
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[personal profile] muffyjo 2008-09-07 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
Ah! Thank you. Now I feel all caught up. Fightin' and Promisin' all the way.

[identity profile] llachglin.livejournal.com 2008-09-07 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
Besides being hilarious that's actually quite revealing.

[identity profile] lil-brown-bat.livejournal.com 2008-09-07 01:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Hahahaha. "Hockey mom PTA hockey mom hockey mom PTA Alaska Alaska change change change change fight fight fight fight fight!" Hysterical.

[identity profile] judith-s.livejournal.com 2008-09-07 05:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Nice! Particularly amusing that only Democrats mentioned Cheney or Bush.

Puckishness

[identity profile] jymdyer.livejournal.com 2008-09-08 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
=v= That's in response to [livejournal.com profile] drbitch, right?

Re: Puckishness

[identity profile] lil-brown-bat.livejournal.com 2008-09-08 01:45 pm (UTC)(link)
No.