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It's Not the Green; It's the Speech

Submitted September 5, 2008 - 12:48 pm by Anonymous (not verified)

Yes, the green background does no one any aesthetic favors, especially not-ready-for-matinee-idol McCain.

But the reason the green meme took hold was that McCain's speech in June was spectacularly bad, ferociously bad, election-ending bad.  He grimaced that rictus ineptly and it made people cringe.

Further, and most important, the June green speech was the same night as Obama's primary-winning speech, which was a cathartic stemwinding stunner.  It was compare/contrast night, and McCain showed badly.  The green screen just became guilty by association with the awfulness of the speaker.  I can't believe they let it happen again last night.  (And I'm glad McCain's team's Google image search didn't turn up Rex Reed.  Eeew...)

(Btw, it's not "beckon call"--though it has logic--it's "beck and call."  You're so good, Al, you might as well be perfect.)

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