President Obama, @BarackObama, Mitt has Clint Eastwood, Dinesh D'Souza and Glenn Beck working for him. You want #BettyWhiteDNC on that podium. You need @BettyWhiteDNC on that podium
Dear President Obama
When you have more than two hundred and fifty million Americans toreach and you have billions of dollars in money entering a blossoming
nexus of communication media, from Facebook to Klout to Twitter to
YouTube, you have the conditions for a strange and powerful event in
the nature of human communication. The next two months are going to
blow American and the world minds. Clint Eastwood has ascended into a
new level of stardom, that new realm of meme star. Betty White might
be the only meme star big enough to compete on this transcendental
level. For you. I hope. Maybe you already have her under contract and
this online petition movement to draft White is a mere viral strategy?
One can only hope, Mr. President. I certainly hope the Obama team has a film in the can, ready to reach
the multiplexes. You are going against two, each of them selling
tickets briskly at Cinema Carousel. Unelectable 2012 and Obama 2016
are going to be much more effective than your knocking on doors
strategy that helped you win the 2008 elections. These movies are
going to get people out of their houses and off the couches and
directly headed to a place and time in the real world. Think of it as
a drill for voter turnout November 2012. This is so much bigger than
Newt Gingrich and his army of cassette listening ditto heads. If you have no film in the can, no simulcast planned, there's not time
to correct the omission. Has the Democratic Party been caught with its
donkey kicking it old-style? That Donkey needs characters like Beck
and D'Souza, which the Republicans have been growing in hot houses for
three long years. Future Shock meets Powershift meets Revolutionary Wealth meets the
election no one can afford to win?
http://www.alvintoffler.net/ Dinesh D'Souza takes a few moments from teaching college to becoming a
media kingmaker?
http://www.dineshdsouza.com/ Broadcasting from Austin, Texas, Glenn Beck will be gathering the
faithful in simulcast at every multiplex with a satellite link?
www.glennbeck.com/tour/unelectable2/
Photography Credit
Betty White at the Time 100 gala in 2010
10 May 2010
David Shankbone 2010 NYC
http://blog.shankbone.org/