With Friends like these
I think that the next election won't have so many celebrity endorsers. I mean you just can't count on the effects that spoiled rich pampered superstars will have on your campaign:
Known to fans as The Boss, Mr. Springsteen is so outspoken he drives twice as many people to Mr. Bush as he keeps for Mr. Kerry, says the poll by Pere Partners, a New York ad agency that specializes in the entertainment industry.
Woops. Name me a recent Springsteen hit. I find that the more involved in partisan politics an artist becomes, the more their career is likely to implode under their increasing pomposity. Does anyone care about Janeane Garofalo anymore? I used to think she was good and funny. I don't really miss her now that she's isolated herself on Air America, preaching to the converted moonbats about how evil everyone who doesn't agree with the left is.
She did herself in.
The survey names Michael Moore, director of Fahrenheit 9/11, as another high-profile celebrity whose campaigning is doing more harm than good to Mr. Kerry
I wonder if knowing that Bin Laden's favourite movie is Fahrenheit 911 struck at any Grinch-like remnant of decency in Michael Moore's heart...I wouldn't put money on it, but in all fairness it has to disturb you to be the favourite movie-maker of mass-murdering terrorists everywhere...
I think the next Democratic candidate should choose their celebrities more carefully.
Of course, I'm speaking as if Kerry's already lost...which hasn't happened...yet.
UPDATE OCT 31: Reader, friend, sometimes sparring partner Greg writes in the comments:
I am also surprised that you would use a statement like "Osama Bin Laden's favorite movie is Fahrenheit 9/11". I didn't hear that movie review was part of his speach on Thursday.
From the transcript on Drudge (I'm not sure how long the link will last):
OBL: We agreed with Mohamed Atta, god bless him, to execute the whole operation in 20 minutes. Before Bush and his administration would pay attention and we never thought that the high commander of the US armies would leave 50 thousand of his citizens in both towers to face the horrors by themselves when they most needed him because it seemed to distract his attention from listening to the girl telling him about her goat butting was more important than paying attention to airplanes butting the towers which gave us three times the time to execute the operation thank god.
From this we can infer that:
1. Bin Laden saw the movie.
2. Bin Laden will use context from the movie to attack his enemies.
3. Michael Moore has provided OBL with ideas to incorporate in his own speeches, furthering OBL's ability to influence.
4. OBL views the movie as reinforcing his position.
I fatuously referred to it as his "favourite movie" when more carefully I should have referred to him finding it useful in his cause. I'm pretty sure that Bin Laden didn't hate it but I have no special personal knowledge of what's in Bin Laden's "Creepy Cave Video Hits."
Thanks for pointing this out Greg! It so changes the weight of my argument!
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I am also surprised that you would use a statement like "Osama Bin Laden's favorite movie is Fareinheit 9/11". I didn't hear that movie review was part of his speach on Thursday. Having recently watched the movie, I found it quite entertaining. Of course you have to use a filter to weed out some of the more outrageous claims, and Iraq was certainly not a paradise under Saddam, but it was interesting to see the damage caused by the war, and the views of some of the soldiers over there. News reports this week have stated that over 100,000 Iraqis have been killed during this war, but from the footage you see on the news, you would really know what the impact is on the civilians who live there.
PS Osama came off as more presidential in his speech than either Bush or Kerry.
Sure the Republicans use celebrities, but not to the same extent that the Dems appear to be - and the Guvernator IS now a real politician. And he doesn't seem to be pissing people off like the Dixie Chicks.