So You Think You Can Be President?
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So You Think You Can Be President is a new reality television show where candidates compete for American votes!
Presidential hopefuls must present their positions on major issues in front of a live studio audience then face hard-hitting critiques from our panel of judges. Viewers at home will delight in the spectacle as candidates are challenged in ways never before seen in mainstream media.
In this week’s episode, only two weeks before the election, Senator Obama and Senator McCain have their feet held to the fire over shockingly similar positions on energy and foreign policy.
Who will be this season’s champion and take home the grand prize? You’ll have to watch and decide for yourself, then participate in the show by casting a vote* for your favorite performer on November 4th!
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*Some restrictions may apply. In certain areas these include, but are not limited to, faulty electronic voting systems, racist voter laws and/or voter roll purges. See your local polling place for details.
APPROPRIATED SOURCE MATERIAL:
So You Think You Can Dance - Season 3 & 4
2008 US Presidential Debates 1, 2 & 3 - PBS, BBC, PBS
Road to the White House - MSNBC
“The Politics of Dancing” by Re-Flex
FAIR USE NOTICE:
This video is a satirical transformative work and constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law.
PRODUCTION INFO:
It is an example of a Political Remix Video and was created by re-cutting and re-framing fragments of pop culture media to construct a new re-imagined narrative.
OTHER VIDEO FORMATS:
Watch in 16:9 widescreen on blip.tv or on imeem. You can also download the higher-res quicktime. Help spread the word and keep the remix online by re-uploading to your favorite video sharing sites!
EXTRA INFO:
Howard Zinn on Obama - video interview
Noam Chomsky on Obama - video interview
MORE RESOURCES:
Rainforest Action Network - ran.org
Power Vote - powervote.org
Iraq Veterans Against the War - ivaw.org
War Resisters League - warresisters.org
Energy Action Coalition - energyactioncoalition.org
Student Environmental Action Coalition - seac.org
Energy Justice Network - energyjustice.net
4 Responses to “So You Think You Can Be President?”
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This is brilliant!
* FAN-FREEKIN’-TASTIC * !!!! Hope this shows up on nightly news and all over the place.
This is great! I hope that people from all sides of the political spectrum will watch and allow themselves to question the status quo canidates that we have accepted as “good enough”.
I love this for many reasons, not least of which is that I’m a dedicated sytycd fan, and who knew the judges could be so politically astute!?!
I am also grateful to see, even if only in remix form, some folks talking back to some of Obama’s stances, and hoping that there is enough of a social movement for those kinds of voices to be part of the political mix where it counts.