On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 6:03 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote:
> Tic Tac weighs in. Apparently they are NOT the official breath mint of > sexual assault by rich white guys: > > https://twitter.com/tictacusa/status/784831611531436032 > Two comments on the situation: 1. My first reaction on seeing the content of the tape of Trump's remarks was that this is no big deal. There might be some issue of a middle aged adult talking like an adolescent but we (men) have heard worse. But then I try to step outside of my perceptions as a straight white male and I accept that suburban white women find this exceptionally offensive. And they are the demographic targeted by this leaked tape. The fact that we commenters on this list are male and are not offended should not lead us to conclude that it is wrong or a sign of weakness to be offended. 2. The campaign that Hillary Clinton is running is amazing. I think it is better than the campaign Obama ran in 2008 but I would need to see a post-election wrapup to decide. The campaign was put together in 2015 to run uphill against the traditional impulse to change parties in the White House after 8 years. That they got to run against a circus act with a fractured party behind him was a gift, but they still go full out to win. I have no idea how long the Clinton campaign has been sitting on this tape but they waited for the best time to leak it to the Washington Post and it was yesterday. In my Twitter feed last evening I saw a retweet from an anti-GOP consultant saying that there is much worse out there. So the Clinton campaign will release it in dribs and drabs over the coming month. And today on Twitter I see that we should expect to see ads showing GOP candidates in 2018 and 2020 announcing their support for Trump along with the worst of these leaks. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
