John Hickenlooper and the case of the vanishing F-bombs ( Denver Mayor and Obama )

Village Voice Media ^ | Apr. 14 2009

[george76]

The video above, promoting Hick Town, a proposed documentary/reality series by director George Hickenlooper starring his cousin, Denver mayor John Hickenlooper, has been available on YouTube for months.

Most of the footage was shot during the Democratic National Convention -- hence the presence of Barack Obama, among other political heavyweights.

But in recent days, a much saucier trailer turned up on the website of Epoch Films, a firm with which George is associated. As noted in an Examiner.com blog by Lisa Jones, John can be seen declaring, "I tell you how you deal with the press. You fuck the press!"

Later in the clip, John says of his chief of staff, Kelly Brough, "She thinks she should be paid a lot more than I am." To that, Brough responds, "Because she's worth every fucking dime."

Why isn't a link to this clip included here? Because it vanished from its online home an hour or so after I called the mayor's office to inquire about it.

As for the mayor's office, spokeswoman Sue Cobb says" We didn't ask for it to come down," adding that she was surprised when she looked for it and found it gone yesterday afternoon.

Judging by Cobb's response above...the timing of the video's Internet departure is certainly curious.

Coincidence or conspiracy?

[george76]

Hick is a phony, and anyone who has dealt with him for any amount of time knows it. Nobody kisses the reporters's asses more than Hick

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