{"id":1979,"date":"2003-11-26T16:06:32","date_gmt":"2003-11-27T08:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/11\/27\/digital-elocution\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T10:53:25","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T18:53:25","slug":"digital-elocution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/11\/26\/digital-elocution\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital elocution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So what do you do if you&#8217;re trying to put together campaign commercials for a President who can&#8217;t seem to string together more two multi-syllabic words without stumbling? Simple! With just a little &#8220;digital cut and paste&#8221;, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/11\/25\/politics\/25ADS.html?ex=1385182800&amp;en=a71761351a4cab23&amp;ei=5007&amp;partner=USERLAND\" title=\"Technological Dub Erases a Bush Flub for a Republican Ad\">even Dubya can sound coherent<\/a>!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  When President Bush laid out the potential threat that unconventional weapons posed in Saddam Hussein&#8217;s hands last year in his State of the Union address last year, he became tongue-tied at an inopportune moment.<\/p>\n<p>  &#91;&#8230;&#93;<\/p>\n<p>  Yet in a new Republican commercial that borrows excerpts from that speech, Mr.\u00a0Bush delivers that line as smoothly as any other in the address, without a pause between &#8220;one&#8221; and &#8220;vial,&#8221; and the v in &#8220;vial&#8221; sounds strong and sure.<\/p>\n<p>  Republican officials acknowledged yesterday that the change was a product of technology. The line, they said, was digitally enhanced in editing &#8220;to ensure the best clarity.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backupbrain.com\/2003_11_23_archive.html#a003658\" title=\"Check out Technological Dub...\">Dori<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So what do you do if you&#8217;re trying to put together campaign commercials for a President who can&#8217;t seem to string together more two multi-syllabic words without stumbling? Simple!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}