http://viz.dwrl.utexas.edu/old/taxonomy/term/259/0 en http://viz.dwrl.utexas.edu/old/content/making-best-out-your-hook-hand-when-running-senate <p>In Oregon, one of the 49 states that I am not from, Democratic Senate candidate Steve Novick has released a few campaign ads that cleverly play on two of his attributes that might otherwise be construed as weaknesses, his 4'9" height and his prosthetic hand. A friend forwarded me a link to a Huffington Post blog entry about the ads. I have embedded the actual ads below. </p> <p align="center"> <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/N2UesvrH-cs&rel=1" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/N2UesvrH-cs&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object></p><p> I like to use short videos like these in my rhetoric class to get students talking about basic rhetorical principles, such as how a person develops a particular ethos, and what the ramifications of that ethos might be for various artists. </p> <!--break--><!--break--><p align="center"> <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QFX1TCK_PS8&rel=1" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QFX1TCK_PS8&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object></p> http://viz.dwrl.utexas.edu/old/content/making-best-out-your-hook-hand-when-running-senate#comments Political Ads Senate Campaign Steve Novick Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:57:29 +0000 Nate Kreuter 218 at http://viz.dwrl.utexas.edu/old