Early last
week, I received some material (including a bumper sticker!) in the mail from
the Clinton presidential campaign. Since I knew that she was planning a major
rally and speech on Saturday, I decided to wait to see how that went before
deciding whether to make a contribution at this point.
On Friday
morning, I thought I might watch the speech myself, assuming that it would be
available live on the Internet, but didn’t know what time it was scheduled for.
Figuring this would not be difficult to find out – the campaign would certainly
want as many people as possible to watch this, correct? – I went to the
official campaign web site. I was surprised that no time was listed, nor was
there any such information on the campaign’s Facebook page. There was a
reference to the speech being Livestreamed, so I went to the Livestream site
and checked their listing of events for Saturday. Not there either.
Being
nothing if not persistent, I tried again around 8:30 Saturday morning. The web
site now had a large “LISTEN LIVE” arrow button, but still no information about
the time. I went to Google News and searched for “Clinton campaign rally” –
this produced a number of articles about the event, but nothing that gave a
starting time. Tried the Livestream calendar again, still with no luck.
I finally
went back to the campaign web site, and decided to see what would happen if I
clicked the LISTEN LIVE button. Well, this brought up a page that promised, if
I entered my email address and zip code, to send me a message when the live
broadcast was about to begin.
I did not
have any difficulty whatsover deciding NOT to give them my personal information
in exchange for the “privilege” of knowing when their rally was going to start.
I decided instead to award them my first (and perhaps only) “Most Clueless
Campaign Move of the Week” award.
I will be
returning the postpaid envelope they sent me earlier, but it will contain a
copy of this blog entry rather than a campaign contribution.
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