The Obamercial...
Hello,
I'm sitting in the Cool Palm's front room in Hannover, catching up on the news back home. SAS didn't have a live news channel on their in-flight system*, so I missed Senator Obama's infomercial. Just watched it, and I admit that I got a little choked up around the 27-minute mark. As the Huffington Post's Rachael Sklar points out, it definitely wasn't bug-eyed Ross Perot gesticulating over a pie chart. It was a ratings hit as well, far outdrawing Game 6 of the World Series...
*SAS offered sixteen films in economy class, including Billy Wilder's brilliant 1960 tragicomedy The Apartment and Klaus Härö's astute 2007 drama Den Nya Människan -- I watched those, as well as Get Smart, which I'd avoided on release. The Steve Carell-Ken Davitian scenes at KAOS HQ in Mockva made me laugh out loud...
I'm sitting in the Cool Palm's front room in Hannover, catching up on the news back home. SAS didn't have a live news channel on their in-flight system*, so I missed Senator Obama's infomercial. Just watched it, and I admit that I got a little choked up around the 27-minute mark. As the Huffington Post's Rachael Sklar points out, it definitely wasn't bug-eyed Ross Perot gesticulating over a pie chart. It was a ratings hit as well, far outdrawing Game 6 of the World Series...
*SAS offered sixteen films in economy class, including Billy Wilder's brilliant 1960 tragicomedy The Apartment and Klaus Härö's astute 2007 drama Den Nya Människan -- I watched those, as well as Get Smart, which I'd avoided on release. The Steve Carell-Ken Davitian scenes at KAOS HQ in Mockva made me laugh out loud...
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