Friday Fun: The Truth About Politicians
September 28, 2007, 8:15pm
As a former reporter and editor at the sober-minded, just-the-facts-ma’am Congressional Quarterly, I almost fell out of my chair after seeing the new online video to promote PolitiFact, a joint product of CQ and the St. Petersburg Times, which have the same parent company in Florida.
It’s not your typical YouTube political video, and it’s definitely not your typical CQ promotional campaign. We’re talking pop music; musicians cleverly masked as the most famous liars of modern American politics (Richard “I am not a crook” Nixon, George “No new taxes” Bush, and Bill “I did not have sexual relations” Clinton); and references to the YouTube political celebrities of 2008, “Billiam The Snowman” and “Obama Girl“; and a catchy albeit cheesy tune titled “Gimme The Truth.”
Plus this from James Kotecki on Playbook TV: “The Republicans couldn’t care less about black people, and the Democrats want your second-graders to be gay and married.”
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