Good! You're right, there are not two sides. And Skype is an uglification machine. And next time, hold up some product so you can make a commision. I suggest Swiss Miss.
You were fucking awesome in that clip, embedded in the SPLC link you gave. The call for a "cultural reckoning" was terrific. (That woman was kind of a drip, though. Where is CNN finding these people?)
And don't feel bad about looking shitty on Skype. Not a lot of teevee folks look better in real life than on camera, but you'll always have that.
The audio seems out of sync... I could figure her out, but Dan's stuff seemed about half a second off >.<. But between JMG and SPLC it's covered :-)
Are all your skype connections using the same webcam (eg on your laptop or something)? It seems like the aspect ratio is a bit skewed or something. If it's the same webcam, maybe trying a different one could help. Tho I understand your vanity (and would be totally the same way!), your message ultimately is what is important and you're very articulate on the air.
It doesn't look to me like you were cut off - if that was the last question in the pre-interview - they let you answer that fully and didn't interrupt. I think the real reason that Perkins et al get on TV is that the demo of people who still watch news on TV slant a lot older and generally more conservative.
@7, Dan recognizes the basic-cable audience may be more bigoted or older or more conservative than the public at large - and is trying to get those networks to recognize that if the haters' messages are contributing hate crimes and suicides they have an ethical obligation to set their (probably ill-founded) ratings concerns aside and quit using lying blowhards for their "balancing" charade.
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Unlike every other blog, which is all about things other than the writer of the blog. Fer crissakes.
@Dan: lots of people call me Billy. Though now that I'm getting some gray hair--though nowhere near as much as you--they're easing up a bit. You do know that the Skype makes you look. . . older?
@12 What I coudln't figure out was whether both blacks & jews individual as groups got 2x or if combining the two groups got you to 2x. It was an odd way to present it, maybe they were trying to shorten the list given.
@17 My sister is 4 yrs younger and looking older than me these days. Eek.
Lately I've been thinking that Dan's work hasn't just been good for local Seattle news reporting, as well as disentanglement of national religious and cultural mixed messages. He'd also be a benison internationally when you think how taboos against homosexuality might be contributing to disaffected young men joining jihadist movements. Inspired by reports of Jasser Arafat's young and attractive male assistants, as well as Laura Poitras's "The Oath."
I think it's important for people to hear what kinds of things haters are saying about us. It keeps people from deluding themselves into thinking that everything is okey-dokey, which it ain't.
Some people fear everything, namely the ones who call themselves "tea party" or Republicans. They fester in a pool of hate and fear. Anger is the sheep of fear inside a wolf's skin.
I think you hit that one out of the park, Dan. It was an excellent presentation, and the interviewer gave you enough slack to do it. So, a win as far as I'm concerned.
On the issue of looking awful... It's not Skype's fault, per se. It's the shitty fish-eye lens in your laptop camera, crappy lighting, and transmitting the wrong aspect ratio for what CNN was expecting. Next time, get someone to set you up with a real camera that can be color-balanced for skin tone and with a "normal" lens, some real lighting, a clip-on mic, and check in advance as to whether they're expecting 4:3 or 16:9.
If you think CNN is arbitrary, try posting a comment on the Seattle Times' discussions.
Those sites have the biggest bunch of crybaby editors "moderating" their comments I have ever seen.
They won't even let me use any of George Carlin's Seven Words! Imagine! How can I adequately describe The Right without using at least three of George's Sacred Nouns, particularly "shit" -- I ask you!?!
That's why I love The Stranger. Their press runs free and unfenced on its open range, unlike the P-I and Times, which are reserved for weaner-pigs and tit-babies (a.k.a. "The Right.")
No they didn't. CNN (specifically during that particular news anchors segment) has it's WORST staff. I think they save the talent to tame Wolf's beard. The anchor, that anchor.......let's just say she won't be winning any journalist awards soon.
You were right, you didn't attack, you should have mentioned more networks but hey, you were skyping from the grave and goddamn(!) does it get stuffy down there.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/23…
And don't feel bad about looking shitty on Skype. Not a lot of teevee folks look better in real life than on camera, but you'll always have that.
Are all your skype connections using the same webcam (eg on your laptop or something)? It seems like the aspect ratio is a bit skewed or something. If it's the same webcam, maybe trying a different one could help. Tho I understand your vanity (and would be totally the same way!), your message ultimately is what is important and you're very articulate on the air.
http://www.king5.com/new-day-northwest/D…
You are the man Dan, love the IGBP!
How can anyone not like gay people!?
Unlike every other blog, which is all about things other than the writer of the blog. Fer crissakes.
@Dan: lots of people call me Billy. Though now that I'm getting some gray hair--though nowhere near as much as you--they're easing up a bit. You do know that the Skype makes you look. . . older?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fgaRBLv-…
Photos can be doctored. And Dan would probably submit one of his 7 foot tall red head drag queen shots anyway.
@17 My sister is 4 yrs younger and looking older than me these days. Eek.
@19 -- the Tshirt picture strikes again!
Seriously, I'm talking about its total expulsion/extinction from the internets for the remainder of humankind.
UN General Assembly Votes To Allow Gays To Be Executed Without Cause
http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/un-…
On the issue of looking awful... It's not Skype's fault, per se. It's the shitty fish-eye lens in your laptop camera, crappy lighting, and transmitting the wrong aspect ratio for what CNN was expecting. Next time, get someone to set you up with a real camera that can be color-balanced for skin tone and with a "normal" lens, some real lighting, a clip-on mic, and check in advance as to whether they're expecting 4:3 or 16:9.
Those sites have the biggest bunch of crybaby editors "moderating" their comments I have ever seen.
They won't even let me use any of George Carlin's Seven Words! Imagine! How can I adequately describe The Right without using at least three of George's Sacred Nouns, particularly "shit" -- I ask you!?!
That's why I love The Stranger. Their press runs free and unfenced on its open range, unlike the P-I and Times, which are reserved for weaner-pigs and tit-babies (a.k.a. "The Right.")
No they didn't. CNN (specifically during that particular news anchors segment) has it's WORST staff. I think they save the talent to tame Wolf's beard. The anchor, that anchor.......let's just say she won't be winning any journalist awards soon.
You were right, you didn't attack, you should have mentioned more networks but hey, you were skyping from the grave and goddamn(!) does it get stuffy down there.
XO,
tGb