Comments on: Always Have Something to Say https://www.isegoria.net/2010/07/always-have-something-to-say/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Sun, 07 Jun 2026 23:10:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Isegoria https://www.isegoria.net/2010/07/always-have-something-to-say/comment-page-1/#comment-8285 Isegoria Sun, 18 Jul 2010 15:31:34 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=20740#comment-8285 Borepatch, given your choice of name, you might especially enjoy the weapons posts.

]]> By: Borepatch https://www.isegoria.net/2010/07/always-have-something-to-say/comment-page-1/#comment-8215 Borepatch Sun, 18 Jul 2010 00:10:29 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=20740#comment-8215 Gah. Too many open tabs in Firefox.

Yeah, you have a bunch of interesting stuff. Duh! ;-)

]]> By: Borepatch https://www.isegoria.net/2010/07/always-have-something-to-say/comment-page-1/#comment-8214 Borepatch Sun, 18 Jul 2010 00:09:08 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=20740#comment-8214 You’d think a politician would have more message discipline. There are only three or four things you can get across to people (so say the Marketing Professionals), and so you’d think that a smart pol would stake out the 3-4 biggest issues that will get him re-elected.

Then, every time some TV personality sticks a mic in his face, he could reply “You know, that does sound like a problem, but I haven’t studied it closely because people are worried about W, X, Y, and Z, and this is what I will do about them …”

After the (infuriated, or resigned) TV personality drags him back to the subject at hand, the pol can always pull the “Well, I’ll certainly keep my ears pealed for other people asking about this, but the voters elected me to handle the biggest issues first. If this keeps coming up, then maybe it will be one of the biggest issues.”

The press will hate this, but the reason you need message discipline is because of the press …

Here via Aretae. You have a lot of interesting stuff!

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