To my mind, these talented guys hadn't surpassed that first John Kerry/George Bush "This Land Is Your Land" send-up from 4 years ago... until now. Holy fucking shit this has me in pain, I laughed so hard...
Too damn funny. Now I understand the pathology.
Damn good ad that'll be airing soon on television from John Cusack (always a fan, John) and MoveOn.Org
Check out my friend Tamra's spot she made for MoveOn.org's "Obama in 30 Seconds" ad competition. She's been making great docs for a while now, won the documentary grand prize at last year's Berlin Film Festival and has been my friend for a long time:
I think, considering the demographic split between Obama's and Senator Clinton's support among Democrats and the general, well, generality most of the spots on the MoveOn site seem to convey, this is top-notch.
Moved by the fortieth anniversary of Dr. King's death, I've been reading more about the end of his life, after "I have a dream" and the moments that would come to transcend class and race with a sense of shared history and the belief that the right thing happened for this country as a whole.
This speech on his opposition to the war in Vietnam is staggering, sobering and incredibly off the rails with the cuddly narrative mainstream history has fed us. As I understand it, following this incendiary and blinding speech, King's popularity nosedived. The romance with white America and the media withered with accusations of un-Americanism. He'd be shot dead in Memphis not long afterward.
Chillingly topical and as brave a statement as I've ever heard.
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