A busy week and I totally missed this entire “mash-up debate.” Probably a good thing, because it angers me almost as much as it does Glen Greenwald. I thought this campaign might be a good way of introducing democratizing technologies and new approaches to political expression, but now Yahoo, Slate, and the Huffington Post go and completely redefine mash-ups for the worse. Let’s be clear, nothing was mashed. This was simply a remote debate. Public participation was not enhanced.
However, mash-ups are fueled by debacles like the mash-up debate - creative people will innovate and utilize these here Internets and do what they want with what the candidates have given them to express their frustrations. How about we take all of the candidates standard talking-points and combine them to make the politicians look really ridiculous? Oh, thank you Onion:
Clinton Blasts Obama For Slamming Edwards Jab
WASHINGTON, DC—Dissent continued to plague the 2008 presidential campaign this week, as Sen. Hillary Clinton had harsh words for Sen. Barack Obama’s recent criticism of blunt remarks made by former Sen. John Edwards over what he called “petty Democratic-party infighting.”
“I am dismayed and outraged by my opponent’s baseless accusations in response to my other opponent’s crude mudslinging tactics, which were inappropriate and which the American people will not stand for,” Clinton said, echoing the criticism of criticism that has become a key element of this race. “The sheer effrontery. Destructive. Barb. Vitriol.”
