Sunday, January 31, 2010

Red & Blue = Purple Haze

NYT "The Muddled Selling Of The President."  The only message not muddled at Obama's SOTU was costume color coordination.








ABC's "World News" anchoress Diane Sawyer seemed absolutely "gobsmacked" (to use her word when she "found out" Charlie Gibson was "retiring") as former Bill Clinton communications czar George Stephanopoulos observed post-SOTU that Obama and company's garb reflected a purple state subliminal message to independent voters via Biden's tie, Nancy's suit, and Michelle's Isacc Mizrahi plum frock. Even the Michelle fashion watchers caught the full frontal purple assault but not the purple swing state linkage.  How could Diane challenge George when he knows whereof he speaks?

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9 comments:

  1. Lordy George! Talk about over-analyzing! As if voters really indulge in such color-coordinated thought patterns! Talk about a purple haze!

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  2. Yeah, but Jim, you KNOW it is true. You KNOW the lengths they go to for IMAGE.

    Remember the color-coordinated 2008presidential conventions with wardrobes as carefully chosen as Nike's costumes for Tiger Woods?

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  3. I thought it was the "royal purple". Huh.

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  5. No, Marty, you're absolutely right on! It's just that this goes over the heads of 98% of the public, even subliminally.

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  6. Can anyone translate Russian?

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  7. I can read it phonetically, and a lot of their words come from English. That repeated Ab word is pronounced Av-TORI-noke, and I can't make sense of that. But 2 of the words that follow it are Kamchatka and Belarus--regions of Russia. So it's some sort of geographic reference. A third word following the Ab word is France, I think.

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  8. Correction: Belarus is now an independent nation.

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