Interesting article, with some good stuff about their strategy for spreading this around. I'm sure the TV whores are racking their brains trying to come up with an excuse for ignoring this hilarious video.
http://www.mediapost.com/dtls_dsp_news.cfm?newsID=262219
He's not really the president, but he does approve of this message. While goofball comedic actor Will Ferrell may have enjoyed mimicking the commander in chief on NBC's Saturday Night Live, he evidently is not fond of the real George W. Bush. In an effort to get him out of office, Ferrell has resurrected his beloved Bush character for a short Web film intended to launch this week.
Dubbed "Straight Talk," the Dubya lampoon was created to help promote America Coming Together (ACT), a left-wing issue advocacy group that aims to register voters and elect democrats to office in the November election. The mini movie features Ferrell as the press visiting "White House West" in Crawford, Texas, the real Bush's hometown. It runs a brief 4.5 minutes long and was created to spur volunteers to register with ACT and donate funds to the organization, according to Thomas Gensemer, director of online strategy for ACT.
Unlike former SNL alumnus, Dennis Miller and Janeane Garofalo, both of whom have taken a more serious approach to political punditry of late, Ferrell figured taking a humorous tactic through an entertainment vehicle like a film short "was the best way he could do something to help," Gensemer explained. He said Ferrell was involved in some events in Los Angeles and "expressed an interest in doing something" to assist ACT in its endeavors, so he devoted a weekend to shooting the Bush parody. According to Gensemer, ACT is mentioned in the film in which Dubya's droll doppelganger suggests that viewers, "don't vote and watch Fox News."
ACT is hoping Ferrell mentions the film in upcoming media appearances. The boisterous star was featured recently on NBC's "Last Call" with Carson Daly and "The Ellen Degeneres Show" which is syndicated on NBC and Oxygen Network stations. Ferrell has been promoting the new DreamWorks Pictures comedy, "Anchorman," in which he stars as a '70s-era newscaster with an inflated ego and the hair to match.
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