Elections are stressful for those who would report on them as well as for all the candidates and their supporters. Plaintalker was not interested in the last-minute nastiness that some wanted the blog to cover. The YouTube videos of ill-advised comments will live on without Plaintalker getting involved.
Regarding such comments, they reminded me of a cautionary experience I once had. I was in the office of a Person of Authority when said person demonstrated how to have a third party listen in on a private conversation. Believe me, ever after I assumed my own phone conversations with this Person of Authority were potentially being shared.
In these days of audio and video easily recorded and transmitted by smartphones, anyone's words and image can be captured and disseminated. The image of Gov. Chris Christie haranguing a teacher and one of a local party official cursing were both meant to embarrass the speakers and horrify voters. The teacher belongs to the Badass Teacher Association and was hailed for her "Rosa Parks" moment, while Christie's team had to do damage control as the image went viral.
The four-second clip of Assemblyman Jerry Green was pitched as a mean guy attacking an innocent poll worker. Green heads both the Plainfield and Union County Democratic Committees and was running for re-election to the state Assembly on Nov. 5. Now that even the air around elementary school students can be blue with bad language when school lets out, a choleric septuagenarian cursing does not have the same impact it might once have had.
The point is not who is right or wrong in these exchanges, but the fact that such behavior can be portrayed far beyond the original site of the confrontation, with much spin. The lesson is, obviously, to think before one speaks or gestures in public nowadays. Or even when one gets on the phone with a devious Person of Authority.
--Bernice
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