Voices Carry has posted a painfully long video from last Sunday’s Celebration Party. And when I say “painfully,” I mean it. This sucker’s 24 minutes long. Save yourself the time and if you’re in a crunch, skip down to my “Hilarity Awards” for the gems. Obviously the video is a cornucopia of crazy (per usual), but this whole media-hating situation has me interested...and perhaps a little concerned.
Leslee Unruh (I mean, who else?) to the audience:
And tomorrow if the South Dakota media does what they should
do, in all the newspapers across South Dakota, they’ll show your face, not mine.
So if you see my face, you’ll know that’s not the way this was supposed to
go. [...] We didn’t want the media to focus on my face or the campaign
people’s face. We want them to focus on who made it happen…and that was
you.
The next day on the Vote Yes Prayer Blog:
Please ask for prayer that fairness be given to this campaign by
everyone in the media. KELOLAND was not fair when they gave us hardly any
coverage of the celebration last Sunday. Also, today SD PUBLIC RADIO set up
an interview with Dr. Allen Unruh and a representative from the other side and didn’t get Dr. Unruh on the program until the other person had been on for almost 5 minutes.
So, I guess the media better watch out, because VY seems to have a strange vendetta here. I’m not sure what they’re trying to do, but whatever it is, the media IS NOT cooperating. My advice would be to load up on garlic and earplugs. (I guess you can skip the earplugs if it’s red-tape-over-the-mouth day.) You hear that, Lou Raguse? Run while you can!
The Hilary Awards
1. Did they have a live trumpeter? Really?
2. Allen’s tangent about their “volunteer army,” saying “we didn’t pay people to get petitions” yet minutes later, they welcome the “staff” of the campaign. Staff? Otherwise known as EMPLOYEES? Also, most of the other people are pastors or Alpha Center/Alive/Fleet for Little Feet/Abstinence Clearinghouse folk, so let’s be honest: technically they’re on the payroll.
3. Allen Unruh tells opponents like myself “You can just go take a nap,” rambling on about how completely UNTIRED the Vote Yes camp is. Leslee later says that before their campaign kickoff, everyone needs to rest. But I thought you all weren’t tired? Which one is it?
4. Leslee admits she’s hard to work with. Yikes, I’ll bet!
5. Leslee says how she’s opened a new bank account, oh my bad, I mean “chapter” of her life.
Finally: The Vote Yes team talks a couple of times about the tactics they employed while gathering petition signatures. Asking “Do you like killing babies?” or “Do you like babies?” is hardly allowing an opportunity for anyone to comfortably decline. I’ll expect that 50% of those signatures came from pro-choice individuals. Next time, don’t stand glossy-eyed, have a baby in your arms (nice touch at the event though, Les) and intimidate people into doing something that they don’t believe is right.
4 comments:
If Leslee doesn't want the media to cover her, maybe she stop standing in the front of the room and telling people she's the head of the campaign. When Ive worked on candidate campaigns, the media never covered me. They tended to want to cover the candidate. Is it really proof that there's something wrong with the media if they have pictures/video of the person talking, as opposed to pictures/videos of someone *listening* to someone talk??
Idea: at our next event, let's one up 'em and book the pan flute guys! Until the Corn Palace Days, I'm sure they'll be available.
Totally! The pan flute guys are the best.
You know where else we should get them to play...
Their website says "pro-life" but they also endorse John McCain. That makes no sense. John McCain is a murderer. He used to burn people alive in Vietnam (from the air of course). Plus he wants war forever with Iraq and probably Iran. I'll never get "pro-life" people.
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