C Noble: Your description seems quite accurate.    Another thing of interest--now that conventions are really just staged shows---the camera shows (in its frame of reference) the crowded halls. From my understanding they are mostly empty except for the main speakers. People are always seated for the full house view by the cameras.

Fortunes spent in staging what is in reality a Bway Production. Minus the talent and class.

During the Bush diatribe (I could only take about 10 min. prior to nasea setting in) it was pathetic to see the faces in the crowd---waving little flags and looking utterly robotic.   Whover wrote---Stepford Wives was right---reminded me of the camera shots years ago of the women when the were escorting the Black Children into the Little Rock schools. The camera then caught the pure hatred---here the true robotic persona of these people and their little flags with the pre arranged signs to hold up.

Finally, from another thread---the Bush girls. I heard some of the pathetic presentation on NPR before---surely they were dumbed down to appeal to the---as a writer years ago wrote--"...the great unwashed". I can't believe that they are truly that dumb and offensive. But---given their presentation---I have to say---you want that image, babes, you got it.   Too bad that it might appeal to "...the great unwashed"---just like Hiltons and Britneys.


Like you know,

Bill Hahn