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RedShoes Donating Member (658 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-30-08 06:00 PM
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I'm not that much of a conspiracy theorist but every time I hear
the ad for Kevin Costner's new movie, I swear I feel like it is anti-Obama. A red neck man holds the electorate at his mercy and the on;y thing we hear him say is, "America needs someone bigger than their speeches". Normally RIGHT AFTER THAT there is a McCain ad decrying speeches.

I could be crazy, but I am just saying.

It's really starting to piss me off.
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polichick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-30-08 06:01 PM
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1. That's my take on it too.
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RedShoes Donating Member (658 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-30-08 06:03 PM
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4. almost like it glorifies it or something
I can't put my finger on it, but it's certainly there.
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polichick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-30-08 06:05 PM
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5. Unless the movie turns out to be about the dangers of letting...
...low-info voters decide an election. lol
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-30-08 06:01 PM
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Every time I see that Stride gum commercial I think of McCain.
Just sayin'
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zanne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-30-08 06:01 PM
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2. I've noticed that, too.
But then again, I think I'm hyper-alert for Republican snarkiness.
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RedShoes Donating Member (658 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-30-08 06:02 PM
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3. I'm glad I'm not alone
and I certainly didn't want to be called a concern troll for thinking it, but I just can't help it.
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valerief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-30-08 06:36 PM
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6. Absolutely. It's another propaganda piece. nt
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Bullet1987 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-30-08 06:44 PM
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7. I don't think Costner's movie is really anti-Obama
Obama didn't really get hit with the speech meme until this year. Last year when he decided to run, most probably didn't see him as a serious candidate anyway. Unless of course they're going off Obama's 2004 speech.
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RedShoes Donating Member (658 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-30-08 07:56 PM
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11. I admit to not having seen it but regardless...
they edited that ad in 2008.
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-30-08 07:21 PM
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8. I never got that feeling. Just looked to me like one of those political fantasy movies
where a single person can change Washington. Which it is.
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LowerManhattanite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-30-08 07:46 PM
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9. It's going to be a big, fat bomb...
...much like Robin Williams' bed-shit of a John Stewart gone politico rip-off “Man On The Year” was.

Time has passed certain big-name, once-big box-office stars right on by, and Costner is one of them.

Plus Kelsey Grammer, who couldn't open a movie if you handed him an unwrapped DVD case with half the disc sticking out the side is a co-star. One of the few Hollywood wingnuts out there, Grammer is a small screen “star”, but barely these days, as post-Frazier he can't even get arrested. (Back in the old days he could—and did!) His Fox series, featuring fellow Hollywood freeper Patricia Heaton (of “Everybody Loves Raymond” and not a damn thing else fame) got the axe a couple of months ago, too. Tsk.

And then, there's the spectre of Kevie-Kevs other co-star—one-time counter-culture paragon, but now-raving wingnut Dennis Hopper.

What's he done worth a damn since his work on “Speed”? (The movie—not the substance) “Meet the-fucking-Deedles?”

Alas, this “Swing Vote” film does manage to re-pair Costner and Hopper for the first time since their seminal work in...

...“Waterworld”

Yikes.
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Ichingcarpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-30-08 07:48 PM
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10. Notice they say its hysterically funny and quote not one source
It has not been reviewed by anyone yet! They make claims like it has been.
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