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Smile! Happy days WILL return! Music used in this mashup: Chic - Good Times Iron Maiden - Rime of the Ancient Mariner Link to Video

"RATT and Marvin Gaye - “I Heard it Round and Round the Grapevine”

Last week, we pointed you to a PSA from Mayor Bloomberg's gun-control group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, in which the rich, famous, and pretty decried the need for stricter gun control (or something not quite specified). Some, like YouTube user Mike Hunt (ahem!), blame those very same people for perpetuating a culture of violence in the first place. In his own biting video response, he peppers in hyper-violent, trigger-happy footage against video of each celebrity wearing black and speaking in a hushed tone, respectively.

Claws came out this week during nearly back-to-back speeches from President Barack Obama and Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney. The two spoke on Tuesday and Wednesday during a meeting of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, and from the sound of it, you’d think they were the only two candidates left in the race. Obama and Romney gave the news media a taste of the talking points that could fill ads, news coverage, op-eds and talk-show airtime during the fall election season. The president criticized Romney’s support of Wisconsin Republican Rep Paul Ryan’s budget proposal, saying the GOP is too...

It’s just too bad Rush Limbaugh isn’t a member of the Democrat-media complex. This whole Sandra Fluke incident never would have seen the light of day. Here’s a video that shows just a few of the horrible misogynist attacks by left-wing heroes on conservative women… Women who did nothing to deserve the attacks other than to profess their conservatism and love for America.

Big Brother is watching you, but are you watching Big Brother?HILLARY-IMAGE FLAW IN APPLE-AD MASHUP   by Mia T, 3.23.07    d mashup, 'VOTE DIFFERENT' is well done, elegant and rather sophisticated, technically. Fiddling with perfection shouldn't be done lightly, and Ridley Scott's brilliant dystopian vision is perfection. Staying within the physical margins of the original Apple '1984' ad accounts for much of the aesthetic success of 'Vote Different.' But there is a problem with the message (and therein lies the impetus for VOTE SMART: A WARNING TO ALL WOMEN ABOUT HILLARY CLINTON, my mashup of that mashup). The...

Excerpt - Just who is ParkRidge47 – the mystery figure who introduced an Internet political attack ad that has stirred the press and political junkies tuned into the early presidential campaign – and what does the videomaker have against Democratic front-runner Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton? The political question of the week is the identity of the anonymous person who reworked the classic 1984 ad introducing the Apple Macintosh computers to the world into a biting attack piece against Clinton – and posted it on the popular YouTube Web site. The video portrays "Hillary 1984" as an ominous Big Brother figure...