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Article Excerpt
On a midtown residential block shortly after ten o'clock last Thursday night, as the President appeared onstage at Madison Square Garden, a series of dissonant voices joined the familiar chorus of passing car stereos and sirens. "Fugheddaboutit!" the voices yelled from a few third- and fourth-story windows. The loudmouths were heeding the instructions of the liberal radio host Al Franken, who'd called for a "Great American Shout-Out," timed to the President's speech, to protest the Republican proceedings. In the context of a week's worth of orchestrated civil disobedience and disruption, the scattered hollering was harmless, even a little silly. But was it effective?
"Effective" was a word you heard a lot around town last week, as New Yorkers and their guests debated the relative merits of various declarations, displays, and gestures that would, under ordinary circumstances, and in ordinary towns, be deemed uncivil, or at the very least undignified (taunting hand gestures on the Convention floor, journalists sucking up to political operatives for access and invitations,...
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