For my fifth blog entry, the video that I have chosen to write about for this weeks blog, is a video taken from the New York State Governors Debate that took place on October 18th, 2010. This Debate was thought of as going to go on without any excitement, just the main candidates leading the show leaving the little third party candidates in the dust. However this is exactly the opposite of what we saw that night. The show was run by the so called "little guys", such as Candidate Jimmy McMillan of the "Rent is Too Damn High" Party.
Jimmy McMillan right away as you can see in the video is very serious as he sits up very straight, has no expression on his face, and has a drive behind his voice that shows you he means business. However, as I'm sure was the case with many people watching that night, I had a very hard time understanding the message McMillan was trying to get across. At some points in his speech he would speak so quickly that I could not understand a word that was coming out of his mouth. It all just sounded like one large meaningless phrase made out of ten thousand different words. He even goes so fast that he messes up one of the statements he is trying to get out. This only confuses the audience and the NY population, who are the ones he is trying to win over by doing this debate. However despite the difficulty I had with understanding what he was saying, Im not so sure the things that he said made very much sense in the first place. As he clearly demonstrates when he say, "as a karate expert I will not talk about anybody up here." As the camera pans over to Andrew Cuomo who laughs at what his competition has just said, you see a much more comfortable and professional Candidate. Judging by his body language you can clearly see that he has the upper hand in this environment, and reigns supreme over the competitors during this debate.
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