On 2002-04-17 00:49, Angel Bear wrote:
<p>Here's something you might not have heard of. If Bob O'Link is the smart bird I take him for, he will not have to walk all over Cotton's rantings with commercials for very long, if he has the presence of mind to tape what Cotton is actually saying.
<P>Such a tape can easily be cut 'n' pasted to form some semblance of more hateful rhetoric that can be used to replace what Cotton is ranting on a future program.
And if Cotton were the type of person who
could hear such versions of his words being
broadcast, or discover their content through
the assistance of friends, and upon the
discovery that he had been so blatantly and
unknowingly recontextualized... would just
shrug and smile and "Who cares?" Bob would
no doubt be trying something like that right
now.
But Cotton *isn't*, and Bob knows that.
These subtle alterations to Cotton's speeches
have to be explainable, at least initally,
to ensure Cotton doesn't find out too quickly
or take umbrage too greatly. It's a very
subtle and sophisticated game, and Cotton
doesn't know (yet) that it's being played on
him.