A tweeted Mike Bloomberg ad was genuinely funny — the difference between "debates" and leadership

© 24 Peter Free

 

24 February 2020

 

 

Our vapidly outraged political landscape . . .

 

. . . could use some levity.

 

The day after Mike Bloomberg's debate drubbing, his campaign injected a humor-wrapped message on Twitter:

 

 

https://twitter.com/MikeBloomberg/status/1230515129877434368

 

 

"Serious" Twitterati were outraged.

 

 

Their riled irritation misses five points

 

In that tweet, the Bloomberg campaign:

 

 

 

(i) tacitly admitted that Bloomberg blew the debate —

 

but

 

(ii) it fought back with a significant

 

and

 

(iii) honestly transparent falsification

 

which combined

 

(iv) visual humor

 

with

 

(v) a legitimately made point in Mike Bloomberg's favor.

 

 

Note also that

 

There is a huge difference between:

 

 

. . . (a) doing well in these manufactured, usually silly campaign "debates"

 

and

 

(b) being seriously capable enough to be a national leader.

 

 

The fact that former Mayor Bloomberg was caught flat-footed, despite the predictable obviousness of Senator Warren's coming attack, reflects little important about Bloomberg's leadership qualities.

 

Some people just are not prone to — or talented at — trading dredged insults in a public forum.

 

 

In truth

 

I would just as soon have a President, who is not given to wasting time and energy in preparing to insult everyone, who disagrees with him or her — even when the slams are arguably accurate, even though (usually) lifted out of context.

 

 

The moral? — Well done, Mikey

 

Point taken.