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Video: Obama’s campaign movie gets the “Mystery Science Theater” treatment

Allahpundit — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 00:11:10 +0000

Pop-up video.

Via Jim Treacher, this is actually more “Pop-Up Video” than MST but Andrew Klavan and Bill Whittle are game in the Tom Servo and Crow roles, respectively. Carve out eight minutes and then forward it to any fencesitters you know. It’s an engaging, easily digestible way to counter Team Hopenchange’s myth-making about his first term [...]

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Here we go: Full-length Obama campaign documentary debuts

Allahpundit — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 01:30:44 +0000

$15 trillion.

The official title: “The Road We’ve Traveled.” My title: Three Years of Glory. It’s all here. Protracted high unemployment, a catastrophic health-care boondoggle, aimlessness in Afghanistan, Iran nearing nuclear breakout capacity, soaring gas prices, and of course historic deficits on top of a looming entitlements-driven fiscal meltdown. Narrated by Tom Hanks and directed by a [...]

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Hope it wasn’t worth it: Obama campaign paid $20,300 a minute for documentary

Tina Korbe — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:55:24 +0000

Too good.

The Obama campaign paid at least $345,000 to commission the official Obama documentary, “The Road We’ve Traveled.” That amounts to about $20,300 for each minute of the movie. What’s crazy: Documentary director Davis Guggenheim gave Obama a reduced rate. The privilege to direct such an important work was compensation enough for him! The Daily Caller explains [...]

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