CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • Can’t Resist

    Update: This video reminds us about the parallels between the media narratives of Ronald Reagan’s and Barack Obama’s Presidential campaigns. And no, this wasn’t put out by the Obama campaign, and though I disagree with some of its implications, I think it’s instructive for us to all take a step back and recognize the ways in which certain themes repeat themselves in the media narratives of elections. I’ve been blogging elsewhere about the recent McCain ads. This: and this: I wonder how this type of ad plays locally. The first ad– the one featuring Louisiana’s own Britney Spears alongside Paris…

  • We Probably Won’t Get a Debate

    Unfortunately, it looks as if the once-touted YouTube debate in New Orleans won’t happen. With less than a hundred days out, there’s just not a heck of a lot of time to fit in a fourth (and I suppose “unofficial”) Presidential debate. A proposed YouTube/Google presidential debate in New Orleans next month appears unlikely to happen. In accepting the four official Presidential Debate Commission scheduled debates – one of which would be for the vice-presidential nominees – the Barack Obama campaign said late Saturday that there probably isn’t enough time for any additional debates. OK. If there’s really not enough…

  • This Was Filmed in Shreveport, Remember?

    How could anyone forget? H/t to Humid Haney: Notice the trailer contains the song “What a Wonderful World,” which was first recorded by Louisiana’s own Louis Armstrong.