Reply #41: Some small things, etc. [View All]

[LearnedHand]

I agree with KaityKaity, Will Pitt, about your hands. BE STILL! Your head, too. It's great on stage, but the movements look very large and distracting on television. When you get a chance, and when you won't puke when you do so, look at the vid again to notice how everyone else uses their hands and nods their heads.

Don't listen to a soul who tells you to discard the black-on-black, but I agree about the color of the tie: red or blue are best on television; rich gold is next best, but be careful with it. And keep the patterns small, not large.

On the talking points:

When Nichols said, "Americans just aren't seeing the good that's happening there," you should have looked straight at him, wide-eyed and innocently amazed, and said, "Why not?" I.e., force him into that old "liberal-media-doesn't-tell-the-troof" bullshit and make him show his hand.

And you might have mentioned, when he said the above, that you had heard the pResident say the exact same thing the other day, just after the White House announced its PR blitz about the "successes" in Iraq.

All-in-all, going up against a Navy College prof is pretty ballsy. You rock, dude.