Nancy Pelosi, You Need a New PR Firm
January 14, 2009 by ShannonCherry
Filed under Marketing
I don’t know who Nancy Pelosi and the House of Representatives have doing they’re public relations, but did you catch her YouTube video which was created to kick off the House’s new YouTube Hub?
Here’s the video, just in case you missed it.
I feel bad for the Speaker of the House. A Rick Roll? Really?
It’s so old – and got even older after Macy’s tried to do the same thing at their 2008 annual Thanksgiving Day parade.
Nancy, if this was your (or your PR people’s) idea to look cool, hip and with the times, you’ve made a big mistake.
The Speaker doesn’t need to resort to using a Rick Roll. She’s smart, she’s eloquent. And she’s the most powerful woman (at least on paper) in American history. I understand she wanted to show she had a sense a humor. But why does she need cats or Rick Astley to help her?
What do you think? Was this a good move -or poor judgement?
I don’t get it…..was there a point to this? You are right, if she had a PR firm or person do this they need to be fired.
I agree…this is totally silly. Of course successful new media campaigns need to be “entertaining,” but this is too much. Seems they jumped on the Web 2.0 bandwagon with zero strategy to back it up.