The Republican party had a company donate $5000 to a local school to have 103 McCain supporting students to inflate over 100,000 balloons to drop at the Republican National Convention. It was a pretty cool sight. If nothing else, the Republicans have the Democrats beat on balloon dropping as Chris Matthews pointed out. Maybe the balloons were to help mask the blatant lies that their speeches held. In fact, they did interfere with one of MSNBC’s reporters from commenting afterwards. The RNC did release that the way their speeches and videos were designed was to make sure there was no space in between to allow for network commentary… They relied on the fact that viewers would tune out as soon as the sppeches were over, and wouldn’t have a chance for the reporters to let them know about the false information provided in their speeches.
Smart move I guess, but I’m so sick of shady politics.