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The upside of a McCain-Palin administration
Mark my words: Artists and comedians say they're voting for Barack Obama, but guess what—on election day, behind closed doors, without the YouTubes and the pundits and everyone they know telling them how stupid Sarah Palin is or how out of touch John McCain is, they're going to vote McCain/Palin. And you know why? Because they've never had it so good. McCain and Palin provide so much material, there aren't enough YouTubes in the whole world to get it all out there. Take this video by San Francisco-based filmmaker Patrick Wilkinson. It doesn't get made without McCain-Palin. That means no 37-second break from work, no slight chuckle at the obvious punch line, and no tiny bit of fame for a struggling director. Is that a future you can live with? I didn't think so. Let's keep the laugh train rollin'. Vote McCain-Palin this November, or all the artists and comedians you know will starve. —Posted by Jeremy Greenfield of Post Advertising |
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October 10, 2008 in Greenfield, Humor | Permalink |
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weird....
i guess the creator hopes that the "household help" gets shit-canned and is added to the unemployment rolls...is that the point of pointing to extravagant spending by a candidate for president?
"household help" actually used to crop up as an issue, usually with cabinet nominees who neglected to make social security contributions and paid the people off the books....
is palin a necessity/part of this joke....?
possibility is that I am missing something in the connect between the video and the commentary.........
obama and biden will find their satirists...as every president since eisenhower has found
Posted by: Tom Messner | Oct 10, 2008 4:49:24 PM
weird....
i guess the creator hopes that the "household help" gets shit-canned and is added to the unemployment rolls...is that the point of pointing to extravagant spending by a candidate for president?
"household help" actually used to crop up as an issue, usually with cabinet nominees who neglected to make social security contributions and paid the people off the books....
is palin a necessity/part of this joke....?
possibility is that I am missing something in the connect between the video and the commentary.........
obama and biden will find their satirists...as every president since eisenhower has found
Posted by: Tom Messner | Oct 10, 2008 4:49:59 PM
In any case, that kind of thing has been going on since the Nixon era. Comics and cartoonists were in their glory!
Posted by: CKL | Oct 13, 2008 7:09:41 AM
Point taken, Tom. And, certainly, no president has ever escaped satire.
But we're focused here on the marketing surrounding the campaign. With the rise of YouTube, user-generated content, etc, the videos and audio that people put out are part of that. For one reason or another, most of this content that's worthy of discussion targets McCain/Palin (I would posit that reason to be a combination of demographics, culture and material). I think that unless McCain wins, a lot of this sub-par, user-generated content will go away. Hope that helps.
Posted by: Jeremy Greenfield | Oct 13, 2008 11:21:16 AM
