An empty desk is not an empty desk, Menino campaign insists
By adamg - 9/11/09 - 3:02 pm
With the Three Amigos kvetching about The Desk, a Menino PR person felt compelled to defend its use, the Globe reports:
It's not an empty desk. The desk symbolizes the mayor's presence in the neighborhoods.
Of course, the ad never actually shows the mayor sitting at the desk. It shows a chair, with nobody in it, behind a desk, with nothing on it (except a name plate). But apparently, that's not an empty desk.
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Baffling ad
When I first saw this ad I had the sound muted, and my first impression was that it must be an ad for one of Menino's opponents. It makes no sense. The ad is trying to show that he is involved in the community, yet he never appears in the ad. Instead we see an antique desk, of the sort you might expect to find in a museum. There is nothing on the desk and there is no mayor behind it. It looks like it's just sitting out on the street waiting for the trash truck to pick it up.
Closed Doors
Menino was not available to sit at the desk that day. He was in a closed-door meeting with developers.
The city is his office, you idiot.
How does it make no sense?
The man is out in the city 17 hours a day, 7 days a week.
He is a man of the people of boston. The city is his office.
The comments in the debate about Menino being the chair make no sense. "You are the chair?" What?
The ad nails it. Great piece by the mayor's campaign.
So the city is his office?
Since he's not at his desk, maybe he stepped away to use the men's room - or the Porta-Potties at Millennium Park, which is shown in the ad.
Calm down and breath, would
Calm down and breath, would you like a Xanax.
Calling someone an idiot = not the best way to start an argument. You make a great point. Just do it with a little bit less Joe Pesche and you will be fine.