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THE LETTER!!!
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 Created on 7-14-07
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There was a high school debate tournament here this weekend, and I saw
Les, my debate coach from way back when. He told me the following
kind of scary story:
He was at some bigdeal speech convention in Atlanta, where Kathleen
Jameson (sp?) gave a talk. She is a hot shot on campaign rhetoric.
She showed a copy of the somewhat infamous campaign ad which Helms ran
against Gantt.
I don't know how much you remember of it. Basically, it showed some
kind of big white guy at home, opening up a letter. He reads the
letter, becomes disgusted, and crumples it up. A voice-over explains
how his job has been taken away by some black guy, who got the job
only because of affirmative action. There's a shot of Ted Kennedy and
Harvey Gantt, in which it explains that, like Kennedy, Gannt believe
in racial quotas. The shot focuses in on Gantt as the narrator
explains that Gannt believes that the color of your skin is more
important than your ability to do the job.
All in all, a sickening ad, right?
Then, Jameson played it again, a little slower, this time. A couple
people in the audience went slightly ashen. She played it again,
slower. Several more jaws dropped. She asked if people wanted to see
it again, and everybody said yes. She then played it back _very_
slowly, sometimes freezing on individual frames.
When the big white guy is angrily crumpling up the letter, there are a
couple of frames in which the letter is replaced with Gantt's head.
There's a random ink blob on the envelope. Normally, it looks like
just a regular blob. But sometimes it looks like Gantt, holding a
gun.
Something to think about.
Les, my debate coach from way back when. He told me the following
kind of scary story:
He was at some bigdeal speech convention in Atlanta, where Kathleen
Jameson (sp?) gave a talk. She is a hot shot on campaign rhetoric.
She showed a copy of the somewhat infamous campaign ad which Helms ran
against Gantt.
I don't know how much you remember of it. Basically, it showed some
kind of big white guy at home, opening up a letter. He reads the
letter, becomes disgusted, and crumples it up. A voice-over explains
how his job has been taken away by some black guy, who got the job
only because of affirmative action. There's a shot of Ted Kennedy and
Harvey Gantt, in which it explains that, like Kennedy, Gannt believe
in racial quotas. The shot focuses in on Gantt as the narrator
explains that Gannt believes that the color of your skin is more
important than your ability to do the job.
All in all, a sickening ad, right?
Then, Jameson played it again, a little slower, this time. A couple
people in the audience went slightly ashen. She played it again,
slower. Several more jaws dropped. She asked if people wanted to see
it again, and everybody said yes. She then played it back _very_
slowly, sometimes freezing on individual frames.
When the big white guy is angrily crumpling up the letter, there are a
couple of frames in which the letter is replaced with Gantt's head.
There's a random ink blob on the envelope. Normally, it looks like
just a regular blob. But sometimes it looks like Gantt, holding a
gun.
Something to think about.
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wow! |
