According to the PEW centers, Robocalls are now the top form of campaign outreach.
As Congress considers a proposal to put restrictions on pre-recorded campaign calls, or "robo-calls," the frequency of such calls is increasing. Overall, 39% of voters say they have received a pre-recorded call about the campaign, up from 25% in November.
I wandered over to RawStory and saw that "The Joker" was putting out an ad for Hillary. I thought it was a joke. I clicked on the link and there it was!! An ad for Hillary by Jack Nicholson. I am not sure if this will get air time, there was no "I am HRC and I approve this message". Looks more like something Nicholson did on his own. But it is amusing.
I know, I can be accused of being anti-Hillary Clinton. And most of the time, I think it's pretty much justified (Bob Johnson, Islam-baiting, Mark Penn, race-baiting, the politics of divide and conquer, etc).
But I have to give credit where credit is due, and if this is the way Hillary Clinton goes out in the last few days before Tuesday's primaries, then I have to applaud her.
From the people who recently unveiled an unDemocratic, Rovian fear-mongering ad and called it positive, we finally have a video that can bring people together:
This was originally a late posted comment, that some suggested should be a diary. I agree. It is in reference to fightorleave's piece likening Jack Nicholson's classic "you can't handle the truth" speech in "A few Good Men," to the Bush administration's attitude on the Constitution, and on the public's right to know:
"I thought about it also. Full democracies are built upon the premise of being tough enough to handle the truth, and in any regard certainly not allowing someone else with unfettered power over the people to make those decisions for them. (I.e., we make those decisions that effect us, through our duly elected representatives (Congress), not the Executive Branch). Monarchies, built upon the premise of not being tough enough to be able to.
Regarding your well taken point, I draw your attention to the first two paragraphs (the first is actually a quote from Orwell) from a piece worth continually referencing:
I was reading the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Hamdan2 this morning--the one that George Bush has already signalled he is going to ignore--and I started thinking, which is always a dangerous thing to do in Bush's America, about Jack Nicholson's speech from the movie A Few Good Men.
At the end of the movie, Tom Cruise wants the truth, but Jack says he can't handle it--kind of like the public's right to know.
With a few subtle changes, Jack's speech could be given by George at his trial.....
I've given up. I can no longer attempt to fathom why it is that the same Republican party that loves to whine about the Hollywood Liberals can make "Bedtime for Bonzo" the President, and "Conan the Barbarian" the Governor of California. And I've gien up trying to figure out why we Democrats limit celebrities to support roles when some of them could clearly be elected (if George Clooney's dad can come close, anything's possible for the A-List).
Isn't it the Hollywood Liberals like Sharon Stone that end up promoting and fundraising third-world aid programs? Isn't Don Cheadle working on pressuring states to send peacekeepers and refugee aid to Darfur? Didn't Brando remind everyone how much of our nation's culture was lost with the bastardization of the American Indian in film? Isn't Susan Sarandon's big crime that she thinks governments shouldn't kill their own citizens?
Therefore, as we'll get typed as being aligned with Hollywood no matter what we do, we should capitalize on the name recognition and favorable impressions people already have of celebrities. There's no reason for us not to.
