McCracken cited the way creators respond to audience reactions, rewarding those invested in the show and even sometimes altering content after a particularly loud response from viewers.
He posed a series of questions about Mr. Obama, all of them eliciting a loud response of "no".
He has certainly motivated a loud response.
The ceremony was held at New South Wales Parliament House in Sydney on Thursday night, with the winners of each category determined by the loudest response from the audience.
Certainly those attacks pump up crowds on the campaign trail, where it is the sharp criticism of Mr. Obama, rather than Mr. McCain's once-over comments on the economy, that draw the biggest, loudest response from the conservative and almost all-white crowds that come to see Mr. McCain and Ms. Palin.
He said, however, that he expected a "loud and aggressive response" from those in international wrestling.
But the loudest response came from critics like Wall Street trade groups and banks, who want to soften the rule.
But the loudest response came from critics like Wall Street trade groups and banks, who want to soften the rule, saying it was a threat to the health of the financial industry and the broader economy.
The complaints grew loud enough to produce a response from an executive of the organization that was leading the effort, David C. Rickey, who described the criticism thusly: "Nothing more clearly illustrates the reason why the profession hasn't arrived at a 'de facto' definition in more than a century of existence".
While librarians could simply ask them to leave, one librarian wrote, "it cannot be done without causing a usually loud and angry response from the removée".
