SOUND BITES
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Ohioans, being at the "heart of it all," have learned in recent years to despise robo-calls, but there is an upside to even this most noxious weed in the political garden. Providing you have an answering machine which records your messages.
During 2004, I was able to capture pitches from Bill Clinton, John Kerry and John Glenn. Earlier this year, during the Ohio primary season, my recorder bagged greetings from Hillary Clinton and Governor Strickland.
(Nothing yet from Obama, although an enthusiastic young volunteer called last week from Phoenix, hoping for cash. Didn't record that.)
Now, I really haven't figured out what to do with these sound bites from the stars, but it's nice having them as sort of an oral history of recent campaigns. Don't you wish they had robo-calls and recorders (oh, and telephones) when Lincoln was running for president? Nobody today even knows what the voice that gave us the Gettysburg Address even sounded like!
Of course, back in those days not everybody would have been as thrilled to get a jingle from Honest Abe.
This, for example, was Henry David Thoreau's journal entry for June 18, 1854. Thoreau, who probably wouldn't have had phone service out there at Walden Pond even if he could, had no use for .....:
"Politicians! I have looked into the eyes of two or three of them, but I saw nothing there to satisfy me. They will vote for my man to-morrow if I will vote for theirs to-day. They will whirl round and round, not only horizontally like weathercocks, but vertically also."
http://hdt.typepad.com/henrys_blog/
During 2004, I was able to capture pitches from Bill Clinton, John Kerry and John Glenn. Earlier this year, during the Ohio primary season, my recorder bagged greetings from Hillary Clinton and Governor Strickland.
(Nothing yet from Obama, although an enthusiastic young volunteer called last week from Phoenix, hoping for cash. Didn't record that.)
Now, I really haven't figured out what to do with these sound bites from the stars, but it's nice having them as sort of an oral history of recent campaigns. Don't you wish they had robo-calls and recorders (oh, and telephones) when Lincoln was running for president? Nobody today even knows what the voice that gave us the Gettysburg Address even sounded like!
Of course, back in those days not everybody would have been as thrilled to get a jingle from Honest Abe.
This, for example, was Henry David Thoreau's journal entry for June 18, 1854. Thoreau, who probably wouldn't have had phone service out there at Walden Pond even if he could, had no use for .....:
"Politicians! I have looked into the eyes of two or three of them, but I saw nothing there to satisfy me. They will vote for my man to-morrow if I will vote for theirs to-day. They will whirl round and round, not only horizontally like weathercocks, but vertically also."
http://hdt.typepad.com/henrys_blog/
