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Using a Visual Medium
A big part of this commercial is focusing on the silly faces Steve Lonegan makes. You've seen campaign commercials. They do this a lot. No biggie.
So, go ahead, watch and laugh.
Boy, that Steve Lonegan sure does look clueless.
By the way, he's blind.
Thanks, Christie campaign. Even if this is just tin-eared commercial making, it's hardly a recommendation. Maybe in the general election, Christie can make conspicuous use of footage of Corzine using a cane.
J. Peter Freire is contributing editor of The American Spectator. Freire first came to the Spectator as an intern and editorial assistant under a journalism fellowship from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. Since then, he has written for the New York Times, Reason, and Human Events. Prior to returning to The American Spectator, he was editor of Brainwash, an online journal of opinion from America's Future Foundation, worked for the Evans-Novak Political Report, and researched and wrote for the New York Times. Freire studied English Renaissance literature and political science at Cornell University, where he served as senior editor and columnist at the Cornell Review. He is also a 2008 Phillips Foundation Journalism Fellow and the CPAC 2009 Journalist of the Year.
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