Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Four Seasons Landscaping story from the BBC


Giuliani, et al., are robbing satirists.

But it's the landscape company's clever ads taking advantage of the SNAFU that's the best part of the story.

UPDATE:



UPDATE:. I wondered just how stupid the campaign could be. At least according to what they're saying, it wasn't them.
Senior campaign aides scurried to urge organizers to kill the event, infamously staged at th.e wrong “Four Seasons” — a landscaping business adjacent to an adult bookstore and a crematorium. But Giuliani plowed ahead anyway, delivering a conspiracy-filled rant that undercut the legal strategy the president’s advisers had meticulously mapped out in the run-up to the election.

Campaign officials described the episode as disastrous, saying it scared off many of the lawyers they spent months recruiting, who now no longer wanted to be involved.

UPDATE 12/22:  And from the New York Magaine, a reporter's attempt to find out what happened.

Excerpt:

Whether it’s war and peace or public relations and gardening, sorting out the truth is a complicated endeavor when it relates to Donald Trump. Everyone involved in anything, no matter the size, no matter how stupid, seems to lie as a first resort, or to know very little, or to lie about knowing very little, or to know just enough to send blame in another direction, and the person in that direction seems to lie also, or to know very little, or to lie about knowing very little, but perhaps they have a theory that sends blame someplace else, and over there, too, you will find more liars, more know-nothings, and before long, a whole month will have passed, and you still haven’t filed your story about how the president’s attorney wound up undermining democracy in a parking lot off I-95 on a strip of cracked pavement in a run-down part of a city that ordinarily would command no consideration from the national political class or the very online public or the equally online mainstream media, which, when forced to look, found lots of reason to laugh.

  New York Magazine
What they were going for...


What they got...




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