Smart — In Context
Remind me again why they say it —
That Newt Gingrich is the smartest candidate.
If that were the case,
Could he keep a straight face
While saying the gay marriage issue will “dissipate?”
Pelosi: Administration Failed to Sell Itself
I think you need to talk about how poorly they do on message. They can’t see around corners; they anticipate nothing.
— House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, quoted by Newsweek, on how President Obama and his advisers have “failed to sell his successes more aggressively.”
Wall Street Vs. Madison Avenue: We Lose
When the #OccupyWallStreet protestors get tired of the financial district, they can always hoof it over to Madison Avenue, where in one of life’s little ironies, Advertising Week is kicking off.
Even as runaway greed is lambasted on Wall Street, festering consumerism is encouraged at the eighth annual seminar/festival/networking event for more than 70,000 advertising professionals and major clients.
As in every past year, multiculturalism in advertising will be applauded yet rarely utilized. One workshop entitled, “Where Are All the Black People?” shows that at ad agencies, things haven’t changed very much since the days of Mad Men. The biggest difference, of course, is that the early Madison Avenue types didn’t have to sit through endless discussion groups about social media “solutions.”
Divorcing ourselves from Wall Street and disconnecting from our mobile devices is in the category called, “Putting the Toothpaste Back in the Tube.”
As the #OccupyWallStreet folks choke on tear gas and wave signs about bailouts and being in the 99 percent, ad industry types, who facilitate the consumer desire that lines Wall Street pockets, will be entertained by Andrea Mitchell and Brian Williams of NBC News, along with Steve Harvey, Jennifer Hudson, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Justin Timberlake.
The futility of the entire situation might have been unwittingly captured in this tweet from @KYColChad:
Unemployed But Not Unoccupied
THIS IS MY OCCUPATION
Our favorite sign so far in the #OccupyWallStreet protests, where 700 people — no doubt many of them unemployed as a result of financial industry recklessness and greed — were arrested at once on the Brooklyn Bridge
Poetic Justice
Trump’s renaming of Lake Ontario has created a litmus test —
Yield, and rename it Lake America, at Donald Trump’s behest,
Like Google and Apple, which already capitulated,
Changing the name just like Dear Leader stipulated,
But there’s one defiant holdout — the original mapping site, Mapquest.
