Archive for October, 2010

Two new videos.

The first- “Election Day is Our Day” which leverages audio from Obama’s Iowa victory speech to make the case to young voters to vote (again).

The second a parody of a future where ipads and flat screens are a big deal.

More info on the background of this ad on Politico.

This post isn’t really about the town hall…it’s pretty much two years of pent up frustration unleashed on the town hall.

Excerpt below:

Over the course of the last two years this administration has distorted the “we” in “Yes We Can”, most blatantly during the health care debate. Whenever President Obama evoked the term “we” more often than not he was referring to himself and Congress. Back room deals and convoluted congressional process took the place of the sort of change that comes from the ground up. This distortion was at its worst at yesterday’s MTV, BET, and CMT town hall (see a full recap of Campus Progress’ live chat here.)

The president spent the bulk of the one hour town hall talking over an audience that asked him pointed and honest questions by stating what we already knew. The Dream Act is important, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell must go, bullying is bad, bipartisanship is good. His responses were either obvious or overly wonky for a crowd that wasn’t asking for clarification on the substance of each policy but the state of it.

Full piece here.

Crazy few months- I’ve completely neglected this blog (if you can even call it that). Blogs are supposed to chronicle an evolution of thought or events- content should build upon itself to tell a story. So long as I’m not frequently blogging then that purpose goes unfulfilled. That said, Google Analytics tells me that folks are still checking in- so here’s a brief and incomplete overview of what I’ve been up to the last few months…

I went undercover at Glenn Beck’s rally- looked for black people, and busted a move in the process. CP overview of all of our videos here.

We created a Bieber video that made people angry (still don’t understand why)- overview of press coverage and our response to the critics here.

I spoke at a One Nation press conference- The Nation has video of the speech and an overview of what the march sought to achieve here.

I went on CNN’s ShowBiz Tonight to talk about Bieber Gate here, and then to talk about Lady Gaga here.

We created a fake naked health care ad which also made a lot of people angry- that video is here.

I went on MSNBC’s The Daily Rundown to talk about the youth vote.

Gave Bob Schieffer a lesson on Bieber and then on Jay Z in two segments focused on the youth vote.

Every video I’ve ever worked on is now chronicled in a youtube channel here.

I’ll wrap up this post with the video below…