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Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Let's Hear it for the Boy

Posted by: Mary Katharine Ham at 3:31 PM

Speaking of movies, I just got an e-mail from the Edwards campaign written by none other than Kevin Bacon who was kind enough to direct me to Edwards' new ad, which casts the Edwards campaign as a cinematic masterpiece that will redeem the nation.

Couldn't they just as easily have recycled the Footloose trailer, casting Edwards as a fresh-faced rebel who just moved to small-town America determined to lead the local citizenry and deliver them from the stifling repression of the old regime by... dancing his little heart out in a pair of tight-fittin,' acid-washed jeans?

Who wouldn't buy that?

Here's the Edwards trailer. Much like the candidate, it's slick-looking but ultimately overreaches with mean-spirited class warfare rhetoric with little substance to commend it. It is another example of Dems doing web video well, though:

And, because it fits:

Update: Can it be true? Edwards got game? Well, he is from Tobacco Road. I'll hand it to him. This is pretty impressive showing around the arc.

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steveegg writes:	Tuesday, December, 18, 2007 3:49 PM
Put me down as a "no-sale"
Oh, and I can't dance either.
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steveegg writes:	Tuesday, December, 18, 2007 4:39 PM
As for Breck's game...
This says it all - "(so what if he needed to double-dribble to get an open look?)." Oh, that was against a girls' team.
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Synthesizer writes:	Tuesday, December, 18, 2007 5:33 PM
trailers for forthcoming Ben Stein movie
http://expelledthemovie.com/video.php
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Pasadena Phil writes:	Tuesday, December, 18, 2007 7:06 PM
Edwards has a love child?
According to the latest from Drudge. Now showing. Let's hear it for "the boy" or girl. And all this time I thought he was gay.
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talisman writes:	Wednesday, December, 19, 2007 12:40 AM
Liars
Ah, "mean-spirited class warfare rhetoric" - this from miss humble-pie herself. While MKH and others like her cast themselves as part of the regular crowd - the working-three-jobs minions out there barely making ends meet in Bush's "Great!" economy -- the reality is they are stumping hard to keep gajillionaires like Rush Limbaugh in gold plated Cuban see-gars and cirque de soliel-style radio studios. Seriously. Do you think MKH cares about your lot in life? Not a chance. She is out yukking it up with Billo as his screeches on air about guys like Edwards who actually do want to stop the rampant abuse of power. MKH's donkey kong crapola is merely dumb-speak for elitist bs designed to skin the average joes out there who are kept fearful and uninformed FOR A REASON.
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