Lance Henriksen on the San Diego Comic Con held this past weekend:
“There are 80,000 people who are going to pass through here, and there are only 35,000 at the Democratic convention. What does that tell you?”
Along with this, it tells us how easily we’re all amusing ourselves to death:
Last summer, [Andy Rappaport] got a call from Simon Rosenberg, president of the New Democrat Network, a fund-raising and advocacy group in Washington. Would Rappaport mind sitting down for a confidential meeting with a veteran Democratic operative named Rob Stein? Sure, Rappaport replied. What Stein showed him when they met was a PowerPoint presentation that laid out step by step, in a series of diagrams a ninth-grader could understand, how conservatives, over a period of 30 years, had managed to build a ”message machine” that today spends more than $300 million annually to promote its agenda.
Rappaport was blown away by the half-hour-long presentation. “Man,” he said, “that’s all it took to buy the country?”