Exploiting Children for Obama

Sorry, I couldn’t think of a good title for this article. If I think of something that catches more attention and is more misleading tomorrow, I’ll change it (I learned that method from FauxNews).

Yesterday a creepy video of children being led in songs about the Amazing Obama got extra attention in the news. Unfortunately the little grassroots group that put it out made the video private within the last 24 hours due to the fact that people think it’s creepy. (Oops, while I was writing this they made it public again but removed the names of people who helped produce it)

They forgot to pull or make private the copy they put on AOL/webcastr. If they pull the youtube version again, I’m guessing this on will still stay online.

The the link to it from the official Obama campaign site was also recently (within the last 24 hours) removed…
Here is the google search result (item #1 on the list).
Thank god for google cache, it still shows up.
Now you see it and now you don’t.

I wonder what they blacked out on that sign. My guess is that the sign said something like “Vote for Barack Obama for Messiah”… Again, it’s hard to say with that all blocked out like that.

There was some debate on who helped out in making this little video… When originally posted, it included a list of names of people who pitched in effort (see the removed but cached entry on Obama’s Official Campaign site). The youtube video does not currently show the list of helping hands for this video…

The names listed were:
Jeff Zucker
Holly Schiffer
Peter Rosenfeld
Darin Moran
Jean Martin
Andy Blumenthal
Nick Phoenix
Ted Schilowitz

The name that caused some buzz was Jeff Zucker. People were thinking that it was NBC Universal’s Jeff Zucker, which would have made this thing a little stickier. Supposedly an NBC spokesperson has contacted a few big sites to say that it isn’t the Jeff Zucker.

While not quite as creepy as Jesus Camp, this is still a little odd. Well, except that scary lady from Jesus camp didn’t start out with the intentions of turning the kids into a commercial. In the youtube comments, the music teacher (who posted the video and wrote one of the songs) admits that the kids don’t understand politics. Her words are were: “You are exactly right that children don’t know about political issues, and for me, that’s the point, they are our teachers…”

Of course, if you think that’s bad then don’t even watch this…

FoxNews, PMS, and Headlines

FoxNews.com is my favorite “news” source. There is no news, just Op Ed. FoxNews is the best because they use the dumbest headlines ever. Unfortunately they don’t sell stupid shirts like CNN does.

Yesterday I was greeted with the delicious headline of “Doctors Baffled as Girl Spontaneously Bleeds Without Being Cut, Scratched” article…

Umm, duh. They all do that. Don’t worry though, it will all clear up in about 35 years or so.

It makes me wonder where those doctors are from? That and if they all were out sick on that day in the 5th grade when they split up the boys and girls to make them watch those great videos called “How My Junk Works.” In their defense, I guess this girl bleeds a little different than most others.

This reminds me of two of my favorite Ghandi quotes (which may nor may not be Ghandi quotes but they are attributed to him on many a website)…

“I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.”
and
“Don’t trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn’t die.”