How Hate Media Incited the Coup: Venezuela's Press Power

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>  >> You repeatedly mentioned "Stanley's stained shirt" -- it must have
>>>  annoyed the hell out of you, if it was so memorable.
>>
>>  It's stupid to campaign for public office while looking like a slob.
>>  Anyone with a rudimentary sense of audience would know that.
>>
>>  Doug
>
>Since I was there too, I'll add: the stained shirt was egregious. But it's
>also important to add that the man was wearing SHORTS. Which I thought was
>even more appalling, given that it was a nighttime, indoor event.  Both
>(stain and shorts) suggested to me either that he had no sense of how to be
>a candidate, or -- much worse -- that he was expecting a crowd exclusively
>composed of folks who wouldn't mind him wearing a stained shirt and shorts.
>The latter possibility was of course, even more depressing, since that's an
>*awfully* small choir to preach to. One that didn't even include us, and
>emphatically didn't include the people we brought with us -- if they'd been
>American citizens, his slovenly appearance probably would have cost him
>their votes. It just spelled out "Don't take me seriously, I'm only
>pretending to run for governor."
>
>Liza

Didn't Doug vote for Aronowitz, though?  Have you, too?  Or did the 
fashion crime put him beyond the pale?
-- 
Yoshie

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