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- From: glass@devl.fnal.gov (Michael Glass)
- Subject: Re: The Repackaging of Dan Quayle
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 01:29:35 GMT
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- [Further Discussion of The Committee to Repackage Dan Quayle]
-
- I think it can be done, but you have to be indirect about it.
- There are a good three years available to rehabilitate his image before
- Dan has to start overtly campaigning for the '96 primaries.
-
- We can start by placing ads in the "Women Seeking Men" personal
- classifieds, something along the lines of "SF, Marilyn-type, seeking her
- Dan..." and "Stunning Bombshell wants Dan Quayle look-alike...." These
- ads are fake, of course, but they serve to plant the subliminal notion
- that Dan-ness is desirable.
-
- Gossip columns need to be fed Dan Quayle tidbits: "Is it true that
- _The Prime Minister of Belize_ is going to drop by ex-veep _Dan Quayle_
- for a tete-a-tete during his vist next month?" Again, the truth doesn't
- matter, it's the subliminal impression that lasts.
-
- Next we need a movie, perhaps "Mr. Peacock Goes to Washington,"
- starring a D.Q. look-alike. Coming from a crusading newspaper family in
- a down-home midwestern state, Mr. Peacock does battle with the cynical
- forces of evil in our nation's capital.
-
- A spy novel, full of intrigue and high-tech gadgetry, featuring
- an unassuming but smart vice-president who hides behind a bumbling public
- exterior while he goes about his _real_ work saving the country.
-
- It's scary, but I think old D.Q can be rehabilitated. And the
- crowd here at a.f.d-q contains just the right level of creative loopiness
- to figure it out.
-
-
- -- Michael Glass | No flames, please. I'm fuelish.
- glass@adcalc.fnal.gov |
-
-
- Another one:
-
- We can plant an article in Readers Digest, thereby reaching Quayle's
- core constituency. Maybe it will contain stories describing individual
- white people, giving of themselves without government help, assisting
- poor but deserving minority people. This makes white folks feel good
- about themselves, at no cost. One of the stories can feature our man
- Dan in a heroic role, defending the honor of some put-upon black man with
- fisticuffs a la George Wallace. (Rush Limbaugh will repeat this story
- ad nauseum.)
-
- Gad, I scare myself.
-