Tuesday, September 21, 2004
 
Kerry on Letterman, The Review

Ann Althouse reviews John Kerry's appearance on The Late Show last night, and she knocks it:
    Kerry cranked out a dismal performance on David Letterman's show last night. He alternated between rerunning lines from his stump speech and plodding through scripted jokes. Unlike Nixon on "Laugh-In" and other candidates who've used pop culture shows successfully, Kerry did not use self-deprecating jokes. He attacked Bush and Cheney and used "Halliburton" as a punchline.
Compare and contrast Kerry and Bush's campaign speeches. Bush cracked jokes at his own expense, Kerry, not so much.

When you're wound tightly into defending your gravitas and authenticity and nuanced intelligence, you have to fear that any crack you put in that image with your self-deprecating humor will cause a complete collapse of the public's understanding of your qualification to lead the country, which is your own sense of worth.


- posted by Brian J. @ 8:06 AM
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