Last September I wrote about why I perform voice over work for any political party that pays me. I noted that an anonymous voice over doesn’t really have sway upon the voter’s mind, and if it does, that voter may need to alter their antipsychotics dosage.
I’ll admit it (before anyone else can make the joke); I thought my career was going to suffer the fate of the Titanic for about five days back in April. (See this blog post for the hysterical details).
Alternate title: Top Ten Questions I Should’ve Asked The Tea Party! … I may be impulsive and a risk-taker, but I also am quite good at processing events and emotions so as not to add to my Samsonite collection. The PSA I produced last week was just what my imaginary doctor ordered. But, a blog entry introducing it would detract from the final tying of a bow around my Tea Party experience. So, I’ll just let the press release do the preamble.
We were not prepared for the media circus that would sprout up around a simple, straight forward press release within eight hours of it hitting the wires. Nor did we expect that most of the facts would get so distorted by a nasty blogosphere and then be amplified by the major media outlets. But these things happened.
Sometimes there are voice over gigs that double for therapy. I’d have to say my gigs with MediaMatters.org fall into this category. It allows me to funnel my cable news apoplexy into my craft, diffusing any “postal” moments I might have when in a political debate with tea-baggers (the fake kind, not some of my fun, kinky friends in West Hollywood).
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