BUSH IN 30 SECONDS“What we see, year-after-year in politics, is the same old approaches practiced by a small cadre of mostly Washington-based political consultants. And each year the enthusiasm for politics becomes dimmer and dimmer. We want to reverse that trend, by bringing ordinary people and new faces into the political discussion.” (Eli Pariser)
With that goal in mind, Pariser decided to bring in ordinary people who would be unlikely to be hired to create normal political TV advertising and through MoveOn.org he created the Bush in 30 Seconds contest. Over 1,000 contestants submitted their own 30-second anti-Bush TV spots, and 110,000 people voted for their favorites online. Fifty-six of the very best spots have been collected here, including Child’s Pay, the overall winner that uses dramatic imagery of children in menial labor jobs to show what Bush’s trillion dollar deficit is leaving our children with, and If Parents Acted Like Bush, where your dad might drive off to work and leave his child behind. Sometimes funny parodies, sometimes heartbreakingly realistic, these TV spots made by ordinary Americans who are fed up with the current administration will are an inspiration for true patriotism and the perfect antidote to the crazed flag waving of that first weekend in July.
Paying to watch political ads? O-kay.
Think the liberal establishments showing this would offer to show a program of FReeper created/collected campaign ads against Kerry (not that one exists)?