"Child's Pay"

[ambitious_wench]

MoveOn.org sponsored a contest for Americans to come up with a 30 second ad to state the failings of our president, George W. Bush. 15,000 ads were submitted.

This is the first of 15 finalists.

It will require Apple Quicktime.

Comments

[malada.livejournal.com]

"Child's Pay" was so understated but so vivid, it really jumped out at me.

And it was the first one on the list, so that may have been a factor.

I watched them through the fast connection at work me being a modem girl.

-m

[kideternal.livejournal.com]

i've been thoroughly enjoying these. apparently, there was one that, well, fark said it best: "Ad comparing Bush to Hitler draws fire. Nazis claim comparison is unfair."

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,8331269^1702,00.html

but do keep in mind that dubya himself is intended as the fall guy for all of the mischief his supporters do. they intentionally elected the dumbest guy they could find to draw the heat away from them; to take the blame. don't hate bush directly, hate the people behind him.

interesting side note: democrats rarely get behind a madman/extremist and push them into hostile ground in this fashion (so they can bask in the spoils once the dust settles.) i guess they're too busy caring about what happens to one another?

one thing's for sure: we're fucked. i wonder if the camps will have internet access?

[kideternal.livejournal.com]

while i'm harassing, i thought you'd find these excerpts from a hunter thompson interview interesting:

(MB=Marty Beckerman.)

MB: "You write in the new book that Bush is a bigger threat to democracy than Nixon was," I say, trying to ignore the terrible drugs coursing through my cerebellum and crippling any possibility of presenting myself as a Professional Journalist as opposed to a drooling, stoned post-adolescent fan-boy. "Those are big words coming from you."

HST: Nixon looks like a liberal compared to this guy. I never thought I'd say that. It's a horrible thought.

MB: [Legendary White House reporter] Helen Thomas called him the worst president in American history a couple weeks ago. Would you agree with that assessment?

HST: That's what I said to Charlie Rose today. Easily the worst.

MB: You compare him to Hitler [in Kingdom of Fear].

HST: Yeah. Easy comparison. You can't compare him to Nazi Germany? Wait a minute, of course we can. What else can we compare it to? Two years, he took America from a billion dollar surplus into a poor country. In two years everybody's going broke and we've gotten into this desperate, stupid war. In two years! I mean, who are the Americans doing this?

MB: Bush is already rich and he can't actually want Armageddon on Earth. What's going through his mind?

HST: Hey, that's what I've stumbled on. You have to remember—and I forgot it until I watched him in the State of the Union—you watched it? He was scheduled for 41 minutes. He went 60. The last 30 were creepy. It just got weirder and weirder. He began to glisten and talk about Jesus. What was it? "The American Dream is God's gift to humanity"? We are God's gift to humanity. Our country is basically getting into depression, and [Bush] is still going to start the war.

MB: And people love him.

HST: Yeah… Fuck, if that's not Nazi Germany—you've got Hitler and the good Germans running around—then I don't know what is.

rest of interview at: http://www.martybeckerman.com/hunter.html