Optics Matter

6:11 pm EST June 20th, 2008 | Democrats, Media, Republicans | 16 Comments

From today’s Hardball. On the left, Danny Diaz of the RNC. On the right, Karen Finney of the DNC.

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Perhaps you shave before you come on tv, hmmm Danny?

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16 Responses to “Optics Matter”

  1. DavidinMD says:
    June 20, 2008 at 8:11 pm

    Oliver, you do an outstanding job on this site. I’ve recommended it to several friends and I check in regularly to see what you have to say on a variety of issues. With that said, I think this is a bit of a cheap shot; I’m much more concerned with what the guy from the RNC said than whether he shaved or not. I know many black men like me can’t shave as frequently as we’d like due to sensitive skin, and if I was on television I’d hate to be judged based on something as simple as whether I had a little bit of stubble as opposed to the words coming out of my mouth. Being that he’s a mouthpiece for the RNC, I’ll wager that he probably gave some material worthy of a better update for your site than this one. This is, shall we say, beneath you? Just my $0.02. Regardless, keep up the good work. A rare miscue by someone I admire greatly won’t keep me away.

  2. somejackass says:
    June 20, 2008 at 8:30 pm

    Check out this game: With awesome graphics like that, McCain has me convinced! http://www.johnmccain.com/videogame/invaders/

  3. somejackass says:
    June 20, 2008 at 8:32 pm

    Seriously, this thing is awesome. It’s space invaders, but with pigs crapping arrows at you. You shoot up the text “VETO” to kill them and the occasional barrels that go across the top of the screen, and at the end of the level you get a bit of propaganda. Simply awesome.

  4. icruise says:
    June 21, 2008 at 2:46 am

    He’s probably just the type of guy who always looks like he’s got a five o’clock shadow even right after he shaves. I’ve know people like that. Kind of a cheapshot.

  5. Parthenon says:
    June 21, 2008 at 2:54 am

    Kind of a cheapshot.

    This is, shall we say, beneath you?

    Lighten up, cats. I don’t even know our esteemed host but I’m pretty sure he was being funny.

  6. Marty says:
    June 21, 2008 at 9:49 am

    Oh come on- Oliver would never take a cheap shot at….

  7. Sean D. Martin says:
    June 21, 2008 at 1:09 pm

    I happen to have it on good authority that Finney didn’t shave her face that day either. So I don’t see the issue here.

  8. Oliver Willis says:
    June 21, 2008 at 2:24 pm

    You don’t think someone – a media representative at that – should probably shave before he gets on TV? It isn’t like the guy is a pol, he’s a media guy.

  9. Sean D. Martin says:
    June 21, 2008 at 3:12 pm

    One would think that someone going on TV, particularly someone for which it isn’t a new experience and who presumably would know what not to do (e.g., wear a tie with a pattern that vibrates when broadcast), would know to shave close enough to airtime to avoid shaodw. Didn’t Nixon pretty much prove that?

    But that doesn’t mean it’s something worth really making any issue about. It’s flag pin territory.

  10. j mccannn says:
    June 21, 2008 at 4:10 pm

    This is in fact a valid issue that proves that all republicans are racists. Everyone knows racists don’t shave before they go on tv. Kinda like how “many” right-wingers want to blow up trinity united.

    You tell’em Oliver! Woooohoooo!

  11. Jay Tea says:
    June 22, 2008 at 9:45 am

    This is a cheap distraction.

    How does this help Michelle Obama’s children?

    J.

  12. Enlightened Liberal says:
    June 22, 2008 at 10:05 am

    “This is a cheap distraction.”

    Rich coming from someone who on another thread erroneously claimed that Obama is appropriating the Presidential seal for his campaign.

  13. Jay Tea says:
    June 22, 2008 at 10:15 am

    And he isn’t, Enlightened? After suitably adapting it to his own purposes, of course…

    J.

  14. bryan says:
    June 22, 2008 at 11:35 am

    Reminds me of an old nursey rhyme:
    “Dan, Dan, the dirty old man
    Washes his face in the frying pan
    Combs his hair with the leg of the chair”

    It’s quite funny that this guy is also called Dan. He does look a bit like he’s had a hard day. The Army advice would be to stand a little closer to the razor!

  15. Duros62 says:
    June 23, 2008 at 8:49 pm

    Never mind the shave.
    That dood looks baked.

  16. somejackass says:
    June 25, 2008 at 1:47 am

    Ha! I called it. The Daily Show had McCain’s pork barrel spending space invaders piece of crap on tonight.