Premediation: MoveOn.org: Premediating an Obama Defeat to GOTV

Check out this link and the analysis excerpted below (you will probably want to go to the Premediation blog and read the whole thing; note the way the premediation concept links up with themes we addressed today at the end of class; notice, the video can be changed, with different names inserted in the place of the name of the non-voter):

Premediation: MoveOn.org: Premediating an Obama Defeat to GOTV: "MoveOn's decision to premediate an Obama defeat as a means of getting out the vote is simultaneously brilliant and risky. While it is clearly meant to be ironic, insulting voters to get them to the polls could be a dangerous move. But it is brilliant premediation, remediating the format of any number of political blogs to premediate a future that presumably no MoveOn supporter would ever want to experience. There are a number of deft touches, including a Dow under 8000 and an array of other stories below the window pictured above that premediate the consequences of an Obama defeat in a mixture of semi-serious and tongue-in-cheek stories"