Showing posts with label CItizens United. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CItizens United. Show all posts

Sunday, August 23, 2015

Bernie Sanders' Perfect Campaign Ad Was Already Filmed (in 1912).

Here is "The Old Way and The New." This 1912 film is the first known use of moving pictures in a political campaign. It promotes the new way of using small $1 campaign donors behind Democrat Woodrow Wilson against the old way of cartoonish oligarchs' $1,000,000 donations supporting Republican William Howard Taft and ex-Republican Teddy Roosevelt (Bullmoose).

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.


No need to adjust your sound. This is a silent film.

Tuesday, March 06, 2012

The Secret Anagrammatic Message of Mitt Romney's Super Pac

If Mitt Romney's Super Pac "Restore Our Future" is spending 95% of its rich donors' cash on negative advertisements now in the primary against Gingrich and Santorum, we won't be able to expect a single positive message from R.O.F. if Romney faces President Obama as the GOP nominee later in 2012.
Click on the Box to Animate the Super Tuesday Anagram

All we can do is to hope that they will wear out their welcome long before the November and that every voter and television viewer will refer to them by (and follow the message of) their secret anagrammatic name: Refuse Our Torture.

Tuesday, September 06, 2011

"Corporations are people, my friend." -- Mitt Romney

I'm still so sorry that the heckler didn't take his cue from Terrance and Phillip and respond with, "I'm not your friend, buddy."


But seriously, the real responses to this idiocy of Mitt "Buddy" Romney's are myriad, but the more I think about it, the more I think that even if you accept the January 21, 2010, Citizens United decision of the Supreme Court that corporations have the same unlimited rights to free political speech of any other person -- and the rights to back up that speech with all their substantial resources -- the heckler should have followed up with, "But are they American citizens?"
Even if corporations are people, why should these people without a country, these supranational groups with unlimited resources that moves jobs, factories, and corporate headquarters offshore, have any say in the domestic politics of their former home? Or in the politics of any country in which they have some of their tentacles planted?