On the Internet, nobody knows you're Howard Dean
Howard Dean will be guest-blogging on Lessig's blog. Or at least, that's what's being claimed. I posted the following comment in response:
Hmm ... "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog" ... or a presidential candidate?
How do we know it's really Howard Dean, and not a Dean campaign staffer?
(after all, letters from many officeholders, are really by their staff)
I've gotten very cynical since "Aimee Deep"
I'm reminded of a Heinlein book, where a candidate is kidnapped, and his staff temporarily covers it up by replacing the candidate with an actor. It works so well they decide to ask the actor take over as the candidate. The actor objects that he's not a qualified. The staff argues in reply that it doesn't really matter, since the candidate is just the public face of the campaign organization anyway.posted by Seth Finkelstein on Jul 12 03 at 9:51 AM
[If I had known how many people eventually would read that, I would have been more careful about the typos! Alwin Hawkins added that "The Heinlein book is Double Star" ]
Even if this occasion turns out to truly be Howard Dean, I suspect we're soon going to see "Internet appearances" which are ghost-written by campaign staffers (if it hasn't happened already!). It's too easy.
By Seth Finkelstein | posted in cyberblather , politics | on July 13, 2003 11:58 PM (Infothought permalink) | Followups
