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Finally, You Can Have a Pointless Conniption Fit On the Go [Campaigns]
Posted: September 4th, 2008, 5:30pm CDT by Pareene
Tags: campaigns
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Will Sarah Palin Scare the Jews? [Campaigns]
Posted: September 4th, 2008, 11:42am CDT by Pareene
Tags: campaigns
We think the conventional wisdom, now, is that Sarah Palin is a cynical appeal not to Hillary voters but to the Republican "base," which means religious white people. It's a last-ditch effort to win just one more with George W. Bush's coalition, not to bring in those moderates John McCain supposedly appeals to most. But here's the risk: the old, conservative Jewish vote McCain's had in the bag since day one? They might not like this lady so much. As you can see in this clip (attached below), even Ben Stein—the Nixon speechwriter so happy to pretend to be something other than an educated East Coast elitist that he'll hop in bed with creationists—is insulted and shocked by the Palin pick. This is just the beginning. The New York Sun, that probably doomed organ of intellectual Zionist conservatism, seemingly also can't quite believe this selection. Allow them to tell you about Sarah Palin's grand plans for The Jews!The disclosure that last month Governor Palin's church hosted the executive director of Jews for Jesus, who told congregants that violence against Israeli Jews is God's punishment for their failure to accept Jesus, is going to be the next club that Mrs. Palin's leftist critics pick up against her. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency quotes Mrs. Palin's pastor at Wasilla Bible Church, Larry Kroon, as saying that he doesn't believe Jews for Jesus are deceptive. "Look at Paul and Peter and the others — they were Jews and believed in Jesus as the messiah," he told JTA. "There's gentile believers and there's Jewish believers that acknowledge Jesus as messiah. There's Swedish believers."
They go on to half-assedly defend Palin by mentioning Jeremiah Wright and how there's no "religious test" for the presidency, but the Jews For Jesus are far outside the mainstream even for practicing evangelicals. Jewish Defense League Anti-Defamation League [I do know the difference! Whoops!] head Abe Foxman is pretending it's not a big deal by invoking the Spanish Inquisition (done by Catholics, not Protestants!) but his own organization has a longer, richer history of warning people about the deceptive and offensive tactics of the Jews for Jesus.
Sarah Palin's Jews for Jesus setting up shop in Wasilla, Alaska almost reminds us of Michael Chabon's charming The Yiddish Policeman's Union, his detective novel set in an alternate universe in which Americans settled Jewish WWII refugees in Alaska and Israel died before it was born. The incongruous idea of a Jewish settlement in far-off Sitka gives the book much of its uneasy atmosphere, especially in the mentions of the current fictional President of the US, an evangelical Christian promising to finally kick those Jews out of the pristine frontier, "pledging to restore Alaska for Alaskans, wild and clean."
The Democrats more or less handed Florida over to the Republicans when they selected (sorry, we'll say it) a black man without a rich history of pro-Israel hawkishness (even though he saw the light and came around pretty damn quick). This, though, might actually put it back in play.
Hey, here's Ben "Sure, God made the world in 7 days, where's that paycheck" Stein:
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'Post', John McCain Will Save America With Talking [Campaigns]
Posted: August 21st, 2008, 3:36pm CDT by Pareene
Tags: campaigns
So hey, John McCain wants to hold "question time." Have you seen it? It's this thing they do in the UK where the Prime Minister is forced to actually take questions from Parliament, and answer them, and everyone's all abusive and mean and basically hilarious (illustrated in the attached clip). You know, McCain is good at speaking extemporaneously, so he could maybe pull this off. Except that he'd resort to very unPresidential insults and probably cursing when it got too heated (although—with this Senate?—it would not get heated). If it did work, and became tradition, we'd be thrilled! Oh, and the New York Post has another talking-related idea for saving America.
Their opinion page today takes a nostalgic look at the legendary Lincoln/Douglas debates of 1858. And they bemoan the current state of political discourse and all that. The scheduled Obama/McCain debates, they lament, will not "even approach the unforgettable exchange of ideas that took place when Lincoln and Douglas shared the stage." The Post, arguing for reasoned, logical exchanges of ideas on The Important Topics!
That's because today's debates are dispassionate affairs in which the candidates exchange meaningless 60-second snippets of carefully scripted replies to a series of often bizarre questions put by self-aggrandizing news personalities on often-irrelevant topics.
That is actually 100% true. (Also, top political stories on nypost.com right now: McCain Unsure of How Many Houses He Has." And: "CINDY'S SIS FUMES OVER SNUB") We agree with every word! And then, ha ha, they say, "McCain tried to remedy this by proposing a series of 10 town-hall meetings with Obama" and we realized basically that the Post did not actually know how the Lincoln/Douglas debates worked.
They were not informal site-down "town hall" meetings with pre-screened citizens asking questions about their pocketbooks. They were an hours of one guy talking, followed by 90 minutes of talking from the other guy, and then the first guy talked again for a half-hour. Have you seen John McCain give speeches? A Lincoln/Douglas debate would actually kill him.
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God-Off Ends in McCain TKO [Campaigns]
Posted: August 18th, 2008, 9:36am CDT by Pareene
Tags: campaigns
The only news that actually happened during that unprecedented Saturday debate at the Saddleback Church is that John McCain spent the Obama-questioning portion of the evening in his bus instead of the "cone of silence." Then, when Andrea Mitchell mentioned this on TV the next morning, his campaign sent out one of those furious letters that NBC News head Steve Corpus keeps getting from various outraged candidates. Of course the story was confirmed by CNN and Rick Warren and Kit Seelye but no matter. The entire debate was already a pointless exercise with a predetermined winner, designed to help McCain appeal to the wary nut vote and make Obama look good just for showing up.What's funny about this "debate" before cartoonish Stuart Smalley-esque touchy-feely evangelical megachurch pastor Rick Warren and his million followers is that we know Obama's gone to church every week for years and the closest we've seen McCain to worshiping Yahweh is when that North Vietnamese prison guard he borrowed from the Solzhenitsyn anecdote scratched that cross in the sand. (Amusingly, this plagiarism was first noted by the right-wingers of Free Republic back when Conservatives hated McCain for being a MAVERICK.)
But what matters, obviously, is not actual religion conviction—or even the facade of conviction that actual church-attendance lends—but kowtowing to morons. McCain, who first bit his tongue to appeal to his party's idiots about five years ago and has not yet let up on it since, won the debate by proudly announcing that he has the moral authority to recognize and personally wipe out evil in all its forms, while Obama foolishly went for the "humble and meek" vote. The pundits will probably call it his "complexity" problem but he actually erred in sounding like a real Christian. McCain, not even sure which denomination he is supposed to pretend to be, only had to assuage these politically exhausted evangelicals that, like Republican presidents before him, he would ban abortion forever and shut down the ACLU and make it a crime for newsreaders to not wear flag pins.
And, while everyone rightly says Obama "lost" the debate, it also happened on a Saturday night during the damn Olympics, and as we already said, just showing up for the photo-op was more or less the entire point of his attendance. Hooray for Michael Phelps!
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Obama: Bad for Black People [Campaigns]
Posted: August 6th, 2008, 11:23am CDT by Pareene
Tags: campaigns
Are you one of the 48% of Americans who is "hearing too much about Barack Obama"? Then you certainly won't like this Sunday's Times Magazine story by professional Democratic Party Underminer Matt Bai. It's about how Barack Obama represents the End of Black Politics, because he's a black person who white people don't feel threatened by. In the story, Bai harangues Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter about why he didn't endorse the black guy and then feels guilty about it, interviews Newark mayor Cory Booker about childhood experiences with racism and then feels guilty about that, and finally says that President Obama will actually be a secret step BACK for black people because he won't be able to get away with helping black people as much as a white candidate might. Get it? [NYT]
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'Sex Tape' Will Prove McCain's Maybe Running Mate Un-Gay [Everyone Is Gay]
Posted: May 28th, 2008, 1:05pm CDT by Pareene
Tags: campaigns
Charlie Crist is the Republican governor of the great state of Florida. He is pretty popular out there. Less polarizing than Jeb Bush, certainly. And he's been named as a possible running mate for John McCain. There is just one problem. Everyone seems to think he's gay, for some crazy reason. "Some crazy reason," by the way, means "a 21-year-old Katherine Harris staffer who claimed he fucked Crist, and who went on the say that another Harris staffer was Crist's long-term partner." Crist denies everything. And now, conveniently, the heterosexual "Charlie Crist sex tape" (ugggghhhh) has surfaced. You'll never guess who's behind it!Roger Stone! Republican political mastermind! Nixon acolyte and dirty tricks specialist! Creepy old perv who goes to swingers clubs! He is largely forbidden from meddling in national politics anymore, because he's an embarrassment, but he still manages to keep himself involved (often in name and by reputation only) in Florida doings and goings-on.
As always, take everything Roger Stone says with massive doses of salt. But he's right almost as often as he's full of shit, which is his only actual genius. Stone claims he has surveillance camera footage of Crist making out with a lady on an elevator. That's it. There's kissing and groping, between the governor and some biologically female human, captured on CCTV, and in Roger Stone's hands, for some reason. No one has seen it yet, as he is "saving it for the national shows."
We're not sure who the purported girlfriend is, but it may be Kelly Heyniger, the beard trotted out when Crist was running for governor. She is an actress who was in a "Hottest Mom in America" contest, once. And also on Fear Factor.
It's a bizarre story. Basically Crist is an ideal candidate because he'd lock up Florida for McCain but, you know, men keep claiming they've had sex with him.
(Yes, that is a photo of Crist with disgraced congressman Mark Foley.)
Report: Crist Circulating 'Make Out Tape' To Squash Gay Rumors [HuffPo]
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McCain's Ultimate Friday Night Newsdump [Holiday]
Posted: May 22nd, 2008, 4:33pm CDT by Pareene
Tags: campaigns
John McCain, who is running for president, will release his medical records to the media. To a select group of reporters, anyway. Only two print journos. It's 400 pages, and no one can make copies. And it will happen on the afternoon before a three-day weekend. Hah. An amazing example of the Friday Night Newsdump. But we've all become sooo media savvy that it just looks pathetic and worrying. What the hell is in there? For that matter, what's up with his wife's tax returns? She won't say, though she will pose for Vogue looking all saucy on a couch. Click to enlarge! Surely if McCain is healthy enough for that fox, he's healthy enough to lead the nation! [Radar, WT]
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Does McCain Remind Us Too Much of Our Own Mortality to Win? [The Olds]
Posted: May 20th, 2008, 11:49am CDT by Pareene
Tags: campaigns
What will be John McCain's greateast challenge in his race for the presidency? His many and varied unethical relationships? Or the fact that he looks like a terrible monster on high-definition TV? Slate's Timothy Noah argues the latter. No one cares about ethics, but many people are buying fancy new flat-screens. And John McCain, who looks grandfatherly and dignified on, like, a YouTube box, looks like a mythological monster in crisp HD. Seriously! Above, a screenshot of McCain in regular definition. After the jump, the clip that's taken from in glorious HD.
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'Times' Makes Three Ladies Ask Why America Hates Hillary [Campaigns]
Posted: May 19th, 2008, 12:20pm CDT by Pareene
Tags: campaigns
In two days, the New York Times published three pieces—by Kate Zernike, Peggy Orenstein, and Jodi Kantor—on Hillary Clinton, misogyny, and the first woman president. Orenstein, writing from Berkeley, does not "consider Senator Clinton a victim." She doesn't like Hillary, in other words, but the senator is maybe a useful lesson for her daughter in how the world will shit on her if she's ambitious. There is a long way left to go! In the meantime, we shall distract our daughters with cookies. In the Week in Review, Zernike, writing more practically, asked who the first lady president will be. Answer: kinda like a male president, but more so.The woman will have to have an established name, a great deal of money, and be old and married with kids (preferably grown kids). They will probably need more experience than Obama or Edwards, but that double standard is partly enforced by elected women themselves, who don't care to run for higher office unless asked. This piece is the second to mention Fatal Attraction.
We are of the opinion that a woman not saddled by the name "Clinton" would have a decent chance, but that is apparently the reverse of the conventional wisdom. And after reading the third piece, Kantor's essay in today's Politics section, an "on-the-one-hand" debate between various quoted sources over whether sexism killed Clinton's campaign (some say yes! other say not so much!) is it sexist of us to find all these pieces utterly lacking in the "intelligent discussion on gender" that they all wish we could have as a nation?
All we've learned is that Clinton-haters make us Clinton-don't-like-as-muchers look bad.
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John McCain Needs to Stop Being Funny [Saturday Night Live]
Posted: May 14th, 2008, 12:41pm CDT by Pareene
Tags: campaigns
Old Man John McCain will appear on Saturday Night Live this weekend. Just a cameo, of course. Though he hosted in 2002, back when was still a maverick beloved by liberals and elite coastal types. Details of the sketch he'll appear in are scarce, though it will probably be toothless and unfunny, as all SNL political material tends to be. McCain might be funny, though! Presumably less wooden than Obama and Clinton were in their toothless, unfunny cameos. McCain's a natural comic (have you heard the one about how Chelsea Clinton is ugly?). Which, as we all know, is utterly unpresidential.The funnier candidate nearly always loses. This has been true since time immemorial. It's why Lincoln was the best President ever and why LBJ only got in accidentally. Is a dude who was in Wedding Crashers really suited to run the nation? Really?
The nation does not care for irony or wisecracks. The nation hates smarty-pants who think they're better than everyone else, which describes most good comedians. Adlai Stevenson was witty. Al Gore, painted as a stuck-up nerdlinger, has a deft, ironic sense of humor. We still think Hillary making fun of Barack Obama was funny. Big fat losers, all of them.
And John McCain can crack wise with the best of them, which is why reporters love him. He's got no filter (though he's working on it), he invites the press to bullshit with him, and they eat it up. He's been on The Daily Show 500 times. Of course, the last appearance was his least funny appearance. And this SNL cameo will be appropriately bland.
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John McCain, Rest of America Hate Cindy McCain [Rich Girl]
Posted: May 13th, 2008, 1:45pm CDT by Pareene
Tags: campaigns
Drug-stealing charity-defrauder Cindy McCain, the lady John McCain left his other wife for and is now forced to stay with because she's fantastically wealthy, is not particularly well-known by the American public. The McCain campaign insists they're trying to change this but obviously they'd be fools to. The less people know about the biography of either McCain—besides the torture thing!—the more likely they'll be able to pull off a victory against Barack Obama, whose biography Americans are largely content to make up themselves out of things they find around the house, like suspicion of people who are different from them and racism. After the jump, John McCain refuses to even deny that he called his wife a cunt. (Which he did, in 1992.)
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Is Your Ringtone Annoying Enough? No? Replace it With Hillary Clinton! [Ringtones]
Posted: May 8th, 2008, 5:03pm CDT by Pareene
Tags: campaigns
Do you hate everyone around you? If so, you may wish to download one of Slate's political ringtones. No, seriously. This is what they're doing. Ringtones made of soundbytes taken from the never-ending 2008 primary elections. Like Hillary's odd laugh, John McCain calling someone a jerk, and "Yes We Can!" If you download these to your phone, you will get beaten up. But! They forgot a couple! Like, all the good ones, basically. Allow us:- Walnuts!
- God DAMN America
- 45 seconds of Mike Gravel not saying anything.
- "Heidi Montag is a very talented actress."
- "Hill-Rod"
- "Can I ask you about your, uh... why you're so angry?"
We'd link to downloadable mp3s of those classic moments, but we really don't want anyone to actually have "political ringtones." Except "God DAMN America," that one's awesome.
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Gore Vidal Saw This Coming [Campaigns]
Posted: May 6th, 2008, 4:28pm CDT by Pareene
Tags: campaigns
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In 1960, American author and member of the designated ruling class Gore Vidal wrote a little play about how his good friend John Kennedy managed to fuck over intelligent wimp Adlai Stevenson and gain control of the Democratic party (and eventually the presidency). The play was called The Best Man, and it was made into an entertaining (and out of print) movie of the same name in 1964. It's the story of a hotly contested fight for the nomination that goes down to the wire, and all the smears and dirty tricks that make this country great. Do you see the parallels? DO YOU SEE? Well, they're actually kinda tenuous and not that informative, but it's a gripping little movie. Here's a clip, taken from a '90s BBC documentary on Vidal.
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'Times' Political Reporter Kit Seelye Admits Entire Campaign is Elaborate, Never-Ending Farce [They Do Not Move]
Posted: May 6th, 2008, 12:30pm CDT by Pareene
Tags: campaigns
"Finally, the pre-announced location of each candidate's 'victory' party tonight is telling: Mrs. Clinton will be in Indianapolis, Mr. Obama in Raleigh. That gives you a good idea of what each camp expects—and that tonight's results may be something of a wash. So don't be surprised to see everything start all over again tomorrow." [NYT]
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Blood-Thirsty Pundits Demand Violent End to Primaries [Sex And Violence]
Posted: April 25th, 2008, 12:56pm CDT by Pareene
Tags: campaigns
MSNBC pundit Keith Olbermann on how to deal with Hillary Clinton's never-ending campaign: "Right. Somebody who can take her into a room and only he comes out." Ok! As HuffPo's Rachel Sklar points out, that means he would like someone to beat her up. Metaphorically! Also, sexistly! Well, it's maybe debatable. Like that New Republic cover. Clearly stupid, but scale of 1-10, how vile? We won't wade in! We will say, though, that it's not even the worst of recent cable news comments.
The Daily Show covered this the other night. Skip to about three minutes in, when the pundits demand blood. "Look, we gotta kill her off—y'know, figuratively."
Sklar says: "To the fellow (male) journo I wrote to about this yesterday, who waved it off as just some colorful film-noir imagery, I say: can you IMAGINE if someone had said that about Obama?" Well we need imagine no more! Lovable old Pat Buchanan does do this in the clip above, when he mentions how often Hillary Clinton has "whipped" Obama. What a colorful image, a white lady repeatedly whipping a black man! But it's Pat Buchanan, no one even notices when he's casually racist anymore. (And obviously most of the grosser comments in the clip are directed at or about Senator Clinton.)
Cable news idiots just love violent imagery, they depend on it to make their miserable analyses sound exciting, and they're being utterly clueless when they use this imagery against Hillary Clinton. Which, once again, reinforcing misogyny. So shame on Olbermann!
Anyway, now you get to have a big comments fight about it!
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Chelsea Clinton: "Here is a Lie For You" [Campaigns]
Posted: April 18th, 2008, 9:47am CDT by Pareene
Tags: campaigns
Back when Chelsea Clinton was a little girl, she was, to the press, the only "off limits" member of the Clinton family. Now she's an adult, and actively campaigning for her mother, and acting more or less like any other Clinton surrogate with her public appearances and politicking. And everyone still treats her with kid gloves, and gets very upset when she's spoken to like any other campaign operative. It's all quite condescending, but whatever. She can handle herself. Look how nicely she deceives: "'There was some talk in the media about whether it was true or whether it was not true,' she said. 'Her family has said it's true in the interim, but what matters to me in the following story is that no one ever doubted that it could be true in our country. So here's the story we heard . . . .'" That's a beautiful way to introduce a lie, isn't it? [LAT]
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""I am...standing in front of Hill and Bill's kid...in a red Mary Kay Cosmetics Collection dress" [The Gays]
Posted: April 14th, 2008, 3:44pm CDT by Pareene
Tags: campaigns
Chelsea Clinton, in Portland, Oregon campaigning for her mother, apparently moved her schedule around to make time for a trip to "the 'Red Dress Party,' a mondo-alcohol-fueled dance party where nearly 2,000 gay men in various states of red dress undress (and several nearly naked straight men as well as one very colorfully decorated naked woman) invade a warehouse in Northeast Portland and dance their collective asses off to pounding disco music and the incredible Storm Large and her Balls (they were beyond fabulous)." [WWeek]
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Tyra Grills Roly-Poly GOP Also-Ran [Tyra Banks]
Posted: February 29th, 2008, 12:51pm CST by Pareene
Tags: campaigns
Mike Huckabee, who is still going around pretending to run for President, who also used to be fat, got skinny, and is now getting fat again, and who is also a crazy religious nut who hides his paleolithic views behind a delightful sense of self-deprecating humor and convincing charm, was on Tyra today. Because Tyra is America's Official Ambassador To the Gays, and because she's not afraid of the tough questions, she asked him to explain his position on the Homosexual Agenda. Huckabee responded with impressive candor while saying absolutely nothing (except that homosexuality is a choice and a sin). Maybe this is why Tim Gunn was sad! (Also we kind of want Tyra to moderate the next presidential debate! She's... more reasonable and serious than Tim Russert, and asks more pertinent questions. What a country!) Video below. Also: most important photograph ever, attached.
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Tina Fey Endorses "Bitch" Clinton [Endorsements]
Posted: February 25th, 2008, 3:35pm CST by Pareene
Tags: campaigns
Tina Fey hosted the first post-strike SNL this weekend. We didn't watch, obv, but we shall risk incurring the wrath of Alex Balk by mentioning Fey's uncharacteristically sincere endorsement of Hillary Clinton, one of the very few convincing ones to be found in the national media of late (we just caught it online, the way everyone else will). Fey, SNL's first female head writer, may convince a few of those Barack-loving youngs to support America's potential first female president. (SNL's first black head writer could not be reached for comment, because that'll be the day.) Clip after the jump!Hosted by NBC because they hate YouTube. Sorry! The monologue was actually pretty good too, btw.
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That Scenario Is Called 'Hell' [Politics]
Posted: February 25th, 2008, 12:06pm CST by Pareene
Tags: campaigns
"There's a scenario where you have five candidates. You could have a hypothetical Paul on the right and Nader on the left and Bloomberg in the center and a Democrat and a Republican," he said. He added that he thinks that "there is a very substantial opening and opportunity" for Mr. Bloomberg. [NY Sun]
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What The Undecideds Read (When They Read) [Media]
Posted: February 20th, 2008, 1:34pm CST by Pareene
Tags: campaigns
Those mythical "swing voters" love O: The Oprah Magazine (advantage: Obama!) and the Hallmark Channel (advantage: Hillary!) and Nascar.com (advantage: Hephaestus, the god of fire!), according to Advertising Age and "an Experian Consumer Research analysis of Simmons National Consumer study." AdAge's Ken Wheaton says the results of the study ought to lead the Dems to nominate Hillary Clinton, because she'll appeal to "Conservative Democrats"—who are apparently educated women who watch Lifetime and spend no time on the scary internet—because these women "might have liberal views on immigration and the environment, but tend to be pro-life and religious." Pro-life, unlike both Dem candidates, and religious, like both Dem candidates. See how it works? Oh, and there's a fancy explanatory PDF. Click to enlarge the relevant bits. [AdAge]
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Brad Pitt Is Redefined And Donates Money To The Red Campaign
Posted: December 31st, 2007, 1:31pm CST by parrish
Tags: campaigns
I’ve just decided that from here on out, the name Brad Pitt will also be used as a verb, meaning: to do an act of kindness and/or extreme selflessness resulting in general goodwill for all of mankind. Let’s try it out. “Oh yeah I saw this homeless guy on the street the other day and I totally did a Brad Pitt and gave him my sandwich.” Or, “One might say that Mother Teresa Brad Pitted herself a spot into heaven-typical!” Hmm…maybe?I only bring this up because HE’S DONE IT AGAIN!! The rumor on the street is that Brad Pitt (the man, not the verb) will be shooting a Dell commercial set to premier at the 2008 Super Bowl and then just handing over the dough to Bono’s Red Campaign. The Red Campaign supports The Global Fund, which helps women and children affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa.
Dude, you’re talented, you’re rich, the ladies love you, and now you’re a humanitarian god. Save some for the rest of us! Oh well, it looks like I’m just gonna have to Brad Pitt my way into popularity.
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Make It Right Merchandise Going Fast With Pitt As Model
Posted: December 27th, 2007, 9:19am CST by michael
Tags: campaigns
As an additional element to their holiday fund raising campaign, the Make It Right NOLA organization is selling some great branded merchandise on the official site. Most of the featured items (t-shirts, caps) have been modeled by Brad Pitt over the past couple weeks — with the Caputo Caps he’s made stylish over the past year already sold out. The tees speak for themselves in terms of eco-friendliness:“This unique T-shirt is made from 100% certified organic cotton and provided by Art for Wear. Each shirt is dyed using low impact dyes and low impact dyeing methods. The graphics on the Make It Right T-shirts are produced with eco-friendly printing methods by using water based, PVC/phthalate free inks.”
In addition to the above, the group is also making available January 8th more eco-friendly bags made from the pink fabric used in the Make It Right Pink project. The material, Earthtex, is an environmentally friendly, fully recyclable, VOC-free (volatile-organic compound) fabric with PVD/phthalate-free ink printing.
Jump over to the official site to pick up some cool swag and help out the Lower 9th!
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Liam Neeson Jumps On A Bike And Pedals To Global Warming Event
Posted: December 20th, 2007, 8:58am CST by michael
Tags: campaigns
We know celebrities are finding it in vogue to travel via hybrid or some other green car to events — but it’s rare we actually see them take things a step further by walking or (*gasp*) biking to the red carpet.
Liam Neeson, however, decided to jump on a bike this week in New York City and do just that for the launch of the global warming initiative Bicycle For A Day. Granted, he was actually dared to do so by the campaign’s founder — Weeds actor Matthew Modine — but with the promise of a free dinner and the opportunity to make a point, the decision came easy to the actor. From the article,
‘”Honestly, bicycling isn’t just fun and healthy and non-polluting, it’s sexy,” said Matthew at the Tuesday night bash, which was also attended by Robert Kennedy Jr - the nephew of late US President John F Kennedy. ‘It gives you a nice rear end.’”
Modine is organizing events in San Francisco, Chicago and New York to highlight the perils of global warming. According to Hello! Magazine, he envisages a day of community-based activities at a prominent city park – to which attendees would travel on two wheels - including entertainment, speeches by politicians and environmental groups.
You can pedal over to the organization’s site for more information!
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Can You Afford Your Own Al Gore For The Holidays?
Posted: December 19th, 2007, 1:45pm CST by michael
Tags: campaigns
As the celebrity aura surrounding Al Gore increases with every award sent in the mail, so too does the price of snagging the former V.P. turned environmental superstar for speaking engagements and birthday parties.
According to released figures, Gore receives between $100,000-$150,000 for speaking engagements. I’m fairly certain, however, that those numbers are rising — especially due to a Nobel Peace Prize now in tow. From a source that will remain anonymous, I’m hearing recent prices above $200K for keynote talks. In addition to these prices, the V.P. also requests $1,000 per diem, first-class airfare, professional ground transportation (sedan, not SUV — hybrid when possible), and top-notch hotel accommodations.
Now, it should also be stressed that Gore donates a significant share of his profits to the Alliance For Climate Protection (his Nobel Prize winnings also went there) — and he occasionally waives his fees for non-profits and schools. Obviously, if the guy was free — he would be swamped with requests to lecture all over the planet. As it is, since the release of An Inconvenient Truth, he’s given about 150 lectures per year.
Unfortunately, people are not too pleased with recent actions by Gore’s team. At last month’s Fortune Forum summit in London, guests bemoaned the high-entry prices (anywhere from £1,000 and £50,000 to attend) and lackluster access and performance by the former V.P. Said one source,
“He refused to speak to journalists and security would usher away VIP guests and the Press. He was being very precious and demanded his own VIP room before the event, where he held his own exclusive reception. The other guests were cut off. It was very clear that many guests were disappointed by this.”
So the question begs to be asked: Is Gore’s celebrity status damaging the campaign he’s worked so hard (and quite successfully) to educate us on? Is it now time for him to change his presentation style or the message he’s delivering? Are the fees too much for some worthy events and organizations to even consider? Discuss below!
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Paris Hilton Gets Naked For Champagne And Cleaner Water
Posted: December 13th, 2007, 3:20pm CST by michael
Tags: campaigns
While Paris Hilton was busy talking about going green yesterday, she failed to mention that her new line of champagne-in-a-can from German company Rich Prosecco will also benefit charity. 20% of sales of the new range of alcohol will go to organizations helping people develop clean sources of drinking water. Rock on! The standard promotion for initiatives like this is usually something between 5%-10% — so we’re happy to see a real amount of cash be directed towards a good cause.In addition to simply having her name associated with the canned bubbly, Paris also took things a step further and decide to participate in an ad campaign for the drink. As expected, she’s nude, covered in gold spray paint, and sitting in the desert. Heckler Spray said it best,
“We know what you’re thinking - what has Paris Hilton naked in the desert got to do with champagne? And we’re not entirely sure. True, we’ve wanted to drop Paris Hilton naked in the desert several times before, but only so we could force her to understand that sitting out for weeks in a 130F wilderness in the middle of summer with no clothes or water is ‘hot’ and that perhaps she should try another way to describe every bastard thing she ever encounters, but we never thought to paint her gold first. ”
Brilliant.
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Charity Beat: Will Ferrell, Natalie Portman Sign Kites For Afghans
Posted: December 6th, 2007, 3:48pm CST by michael
Tags: campaigns
Celebrities such as Will Ferrell, Natalie Portman, Angelina Jolie, Daniel Craig, Madonna, and Maggie and Jake Gyllenhaal have given their signatures to 25 authentic Afghan kites that will go up for auction. The money raised will benefit the the Afghanistan Relief Organization; which directly supports the training of teachers and the building of libraries and education facilities in the newly developing country. [via DVDfeed]Chef Jaime Oliver raised more than $456,000 at a dinner last night for his Fifteen Foundation. The organization helps train unemployed young people to become chefs and work in the restaurant business. Oliver will use the money to build a training kitchen above Fifteen to help the local community, and increase the number of apprentices each year to 45. [via Bloomberg]
U2 frontman Bono is joining artist Damien Hirst in organizing a charity art auction at Sotheby’s for Valentine’s Day ‘08. Expected to go under the hammer are pieces by Jeff Koons, Jasper Johns, Matthew Barney, Georg Baselitz, Cecily Brown and Douglas Gordon. All of the art presented will revolve around the RED theme and benefit HIV/AIDS relief programs in Africa. Sotheby’s expects the auction to raise more than $40 million dollars. [via International Herald Tribune]
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Music For Relief Raising Funds For Cyclone Survivors In Bangladesh
Posted: December 6th, 2007, 2:45pm CST by michael
Tags: campaigns
Under the banner of the org Music for Relief, Linkin Park is once again teaming with artists like Avril Lavigne, Smashing Pumpkins, Madonna, and the Deftones to help people in unfortunate circumstances. Last month, the organization raised money to assist those affected by the California wildfires. This time, they’re focusing on the tragedy of the recent Cyclone in Bangladesh. From the release,“On November 15th Cyclone Sidr brought winds of up to 150 miles an hour, creating a 15 foot sea surge, devastating coastal regions in Bangladesh. The storm killed approximately 3,500 people, left over 40,000 injured while over 800 people are still missing. 8.5 million people have been affected by the cyclone and tens of thousands of people are still in urgent need of food, shelter, medical supplies and clean drinking water.”
Up for auction on the eBay site are signed posters, XBOX360s, guitars, and VIP tickets for 4 to various Linkin Park concerts around the world. Absolutely all funds raised will be distributed in the region to help provide food, shelter, medical supplies and clean drinking water to survivors.
Hit the auction to take a look and help out a great cause!
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Kevin Costner Fights To Protect Sherwood Forest
Posted: December 4th, 2007, 3:28pm CST by michael
Tags: campaigns
There are so many potential Robin Hood allusions in this piece that I heard the collective groans even before I started typing.
Kevin Costner, star of the 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (at that moment every girl I knew was swooning over Bryan Adams) has joined in the fight to protect England’s Sherwood Forest from development and ruin. The actor wrote an email to back a campaign to preserve the woodland through a proposed $91 million grant from the U.K. Lottery fund. From the article,
“Costner’s email reads, ‘Sherwood Forest was a name I learned as a little boy. The surprise was being able to play the character Robin Hood. We know the legend and idea of Sherwood Forest. It is worth saving and preserving.’”
If the bid to preserve Sherwood Forest successfully wins lottery funding, the prize money will be used to create an eco-friendly visitors’ center and replant 250,000 trees. Other celebrities backing the cause include Jonas Armstrong, star of the BBC’s hit TV series Robin Hood, as well as Brian Blessed, who played Robin’s father Lord Locksley in Prince of Thieves — and incidentally, died in the first five minutes.
Now if they could just get the gang from Men In Tights in chip in….
To vote for the Sherwood Project and make its restoration a reality — click here!
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Victoria Beckham To Lose Her Clothes For Charity
Posted: November 30th, 2007, 3:56pm CST by michael
Tags: campaigns
Let the discussions on using nude women to promote charity efforts begin! We’ve seen more celebrity ladies lately drop their clothing to support various causes (Maggie Q, Sophie Monk, Alicia Silverstone, Pippa Black) and the response has ranged from supportive to the unnecessary use of sex to sell a message. Please welcome Victoria Beckham to the club!According to the Hollywood Rag, Posh has been signed to become the face of designer Marc Jacobs’ Spring/Summer 2008 collection and he has persuaded her to be photographed naked with the image to be used on a range of his skin cancer charity T-shirts. Of course! From the article,
“A source told Britain’s Daily Mirror newspaper: ‘Victoria loves Marc’s work but she wasn’t entirely comfortable with getting naked. Marc went all-out to persuade her. And when she heard about what a great cause it was she knew she just couldn’t turn it down. The picture she and Marc have chosen is amazing - sexy but tasteful.’”
The Spice Girl will join other celebrities such as Julianne Moore, Dita Von Teese and Naomi Campbell, who all stripped for Jacobs’ T-shirts in 2006. That year, over $60,000 was raised for charity — and Jacobs is hoping even more will benefit this time around.
So, what do you think? We all know that sex sells, but should orgs be more equal in their use of women and men for such promotions?
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Maggie Gyllenhaal Fights Poverty With Designer Necklace
Posted: November 30th, 2007, 9:53am CST by michael
Tags: campaigns
Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal has teamed up with the org Trickle Up and New York designer TenThousandThings to create a necklace to help fight poverty this holiday season.
The necklace is part of Tricke Up’s “Seed A Dream” campaign which features a 75-second animated short narrated by Maggie and highlights three visual storylines on how it takes so little to seed a dream in these foreign lands. At the end of the short, the three stories morph into the necklace.
So, want to help? You can pick up this pretty bauble for $100 and it will be delivered before Christmas with a holiday card describing their work. Check out the video with Maggie’s work below:
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Celebrity Designers Team Up To Support Climate Project
Posted: November 26th, 2007, 9:51am CST by michael
Tags: campaigns
Once more, L.E.N.Y (Limited Edition New York) is uniting celebrity designers to help raise money for Al Gore’s non-profit, The Climate Project. This time round, Buddhist Punk is joining in the fun, which includes designs from Carla Sozzani, Richard Branson, Natalia Vodianova and Charlotte Tilbury, to name but a few. From the article,“The garments will be sold in the most prestigious multi-brand boutiques and department stores worldwide with net proceeds going to Al Gore’s association, The Climate Project, for the second season. The association works to raise awareness on the dramatic effects of global warming and to persuade citizens and governments of the urgent need to solve this environmental crisis.”
As with the last design fund raiser, these shirts will probably sell out pretty quick. Branson’s design shows a repeating image of Africa with the words “Flick Off!” written on the front. I’m not exactly sure what he’s trying to say…
Anyways, for a full gallery of celebrity creations, click here.
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Thanks to Kevin Wall
Posted: November 21st, 2007, 7:27pm CST by Sarah Shewey
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Kevin Wall, the founder of Live Earth, has become an eco-celebrity in his own right having broken the record for the most viewers to watch an entertainment event at one time – chances are, you were one of those 2 billion people. “It’s a little surreal, I really prefer not to be [a celebrity]. We want to continue make this cause a topic of conversation.”Wall intends to build upon his influence in orchestrating every government of the world to come together, negotiate and ratify a treaty for environmental change by 2010. Go get ‘em, Kevin!
In the meantime, a Live Earth DVD and a Live Earth CD will be available for sale in two weeks worldwide. The DVD has three parts: onstage performances, a behind-the-scenes documentary of creating and greening the show, and a collection of 20 short films that were made for the event. The CD/DVD package will feature Linkin Park, Metallica, Madonna, Smashing Pumpkins, The Police, Kelly Clarkson, Dave Matthews Band, Foo Fighters, John Mayer, Beastie Boys, Keith Urban, Rihanna and many more. Sounds like the perfect ecorazzi holiday gift!
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The Green Video: Joaquin Phoenix Sees Dead Turkeys
Posted: November 20th, 2007, 3:59pm CST by michael
Tags: campaigns
Here’s an amusing ad from PETA featuring actor Joaquin Phoenix. Each year, 45 million turkeys are killed for Thanksgiving alone and Phoenix wants to make sure people understand there are alternatives. “Holidays can be murder on turkeys. Let’s make this one for the birds,” he says.
via goveg
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Bob Geldof Attacks Australia’s “Pathetic” Foreign Aid Support
Posted: November 20th, 2007, 8:53am CST by michael
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Sir Bob Geldof was in Australia yesterday to take on his new role as “Honorary Ambassador for the City of Brisbane” (huh?) and immediately turned the tables on the country by slamming the government for not allocating enough GDP for foreign aid. From the article,
“He said, ‘It’s embarrassingly pathetic. In fact, it’s one of the meanest in the planet. (It is) way behind the rest of the developed world. For a country that keeps boasting about its huge growth, which is absolutely correct, you should boast and be proud of it. Is 99.5 per cent not enough for you?’”
Currently, Australia allocates less than 0.5% to support people in less economically developed countries. The rocker urged the government to look beyond that and the 0.7% mandated by the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals for 2015. He added, “If people think that’s a lot of money - what, 99.3 (per cent) is not enough for you all, does that not do it? It’s tragic”.
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Julia Roberts And Oprah Share (RED) Gift Idea
Posted: November 19th, 2007, 9:20pm