UPDATE: Progressive Democrats for Delaware has pledged $500 toward getting our second radio ad on the air. Here is the catch. It is a match so we need to raise $500 to get the dough. I think we can do it.
Also- while I like the first draft I’m not sure I nailed the part where geek lays out the real benefits that DelawareLiberal provides readers/participants. So that section needs some work.
And speaking of participating - you should join Progressive Democrats for Delaware.
Here is my stab at a second Delaware liberal Radio Ad (which we’ll need to air this summer because I’m sure the rates are going to go crazy this fall.)
ME: Hey geek, listen to this new radio ad I’ve come up with to promote our blog, Delaware liberal…(clears throat.) (sings) “DELAWARE LIBERAL,!! DELAWARE LIBERAL!! DELAWARE LIBERAL,!! DELAWARE LIBERAL!!… What do you think?
Geek: I think it’s stupid.
ME: No it is in your face…and hip. (sings) “DELAWARE LIBERAL,!! DELAWARE LIBERAL!! DELAWARE LIBERAL,!! DELAWARE LIBERAL!!…
Geek: …yeah yeah…NO.. It doesn’t talk about all the stories we’ve been breaking, turning up the heat on corrupt politicians like Harris McDowell– our In State Wind Farm Advocacy or the great community we’ve built up with our contributors like Pandora, Cassandra and Delaware’s Hottest Blogger, Donvit.
ME: Well, no but it is witty and irreverent like the blog. (sings) “DELAWARE LIBERAL,!! DELAWARE LIBERAL!! DELAWARE LIBERAL,!! DELAWARE LIBERAL!!…
Geek: Would you please stop that.
Me: Okay.
Geek: Thanks. Visit Delaware liberal dot net ! Still free, and still keep Delaware politicians on notice.
17 responses so far ↓
1 liberalgeek // May 30, 2008 at 12:03 pm
When do we record it?
2 liberalgeek // May 30, 2008 at 12:07 pm
And by the way, I’ll edit the copy for spelling, grammar and punctuation.
3 Delaware's Hottest Blogger // May 30, 2008 at 12:25 pm
with out contributors like Pandora, Cassandra and Delaware’s Hottest Blogger, Donvit.
are you guys planning on starting up your own blog?
4 jason330 // May 30, 2008 at 12:28 pm
fixed!
5 Nancy Willing // May 30, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Can Jason sing?
6 RSmitty // May 30, 2008 at 1:18 pm
I think it should be recorded over the sound of pounding hammers and table saws (imagine…you building a deck), while Geek and I are imbibing in deck lounge chairs. I don’t have to really speak, but that was just for your illustrative purposes.
7 jason330 // May 30, 2008 at 1:28 pm
How’d you know that I’m a Stanislavsky guy?
8 Rebecca // May 30, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Brilliant!
9 disbelief // May 30, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Put in the full name:
Delawareliberal.net
Delawareliberal.net
etc.
You get them half-way there by not mentioning the full address; kind of like donviti dropping things at Drinking Liberally and announcing to his female gaggle of admirers, “Oooh! I’ll have to bend over and pick that up!”
10 RSmitty // May 30, 2008 at 2:08 pm
How’d you know that I’m a Stanislavsky guy?
Wouldn’t that require you to live the part? The deck’s coming along, then? I could use a beer, you know.
11 X Stryker // May 30, 2008 at 2:25 pm
I award it 3 cheesy Celia Cohen metaphors and a side of ham.
12 G Rex // May 30, 2008 at 5:32 pm
Or you could rip off the I’m from Delaware song:
“delawareliberal, man, delawareliberal,
delawareliberal, man, delawareliberal,
delawareliberal, man, delawareliberal.”
13 disbelief // May 30, 2008 at 5:51 pm
Actually, reading it sounds more like the tune from “Secret Agent Man”.
14 selander // May 31, 2008 at 10:12 am
It’s a good start.
One question to ask as you write this : “Since we don’t have a ton of money to carve, through repetition, a new mental reference point in people’s minds for this product, how can we affix delawareliberal.net to a reference point they already have?”
Sometimes the answer is borrowing from existing pop culture. Like the Wizard of Oz -
Delawareliberal.net proved X doesn’t have a brain…. Y heart… or Z Courage?
Leverage other people’s music, like “Follow the Yellow Brick Road” -
Delawareliberal.net, delawareliberal.net
dela- dela- dela-
delawareliberal.net
15 Rebecca // May 31, 2008 at 10:21 am
Clever Selander!
16 Disbelief // May 31, 2008 at 11:51 am
I vote for selander’s tune a la Wizard of Oz. That way, liberalgeek can break in with some snark, “Jason, you’re not going to start cross-dressing like Judy Garland and join a cabaret, are you?” And Jason can respond, “No, I’m going to put up the most politically savvy, entertaining blog in Delaware!”
17 No Name for Privacy // May 31, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Send Selander something nice for Father’s Day…his advice would have cost more than a few scheckels on the open market. Take his advice…even though it’s free….it is excellent.
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