Daily Archives: October 30, 2014


Maffei ad hits back at attacks on where his baby was born

The Daily Kos has the article Maffei ad hits back at attacks on where his baby was born.

Rep. Dan Maffei is out with a new ad hitting back at attacks by Republican John Katko that Maffei has abandoned his Syracuse district because his baby was born in the wrong place.


I love a demonstration of political jujitsu. Take the momentum of the attacker’s ad to flip him over your head and onto his back.


Chris Christie blows his top after angry constituent confronts him at press conference

The Daily Kos has the article Chris Christie blows his top after angry constituent confronts him at press conference.

New Jersey’s biggest bully, Gov. Chris Christie turned up for a press conference yesterday and had a surprising spat with a New Jersey man who turned up to tell Christie he needs to do more for residents who are still displaced from their homes after Hurricane Sandy.

I am going to do a biased experiment here.  I am telling you what it is.  I am going to put the second Daily Kos video first to see what you think of the first Daily Kos video after you see their second one.


I think you will get more pleasure from seeing it in the order I present it. I can probably understand why The Daily Kos presented it the way they did, but I think it had unintended consequences.

The YouTube statistics on the first video they showed had 135,509 views, 180 thumbs up, 68 thumbs down. The second video that The Daily Kos showed had 2,666 views, 35 thumbs up, 1 thumb down.

Do you think the approximately 133,000 people who saw only the first video and not the second video got the same impact as the people who saw both videos? What about people who saw only the second video?