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"The Most Honest Three Minutes in Television"

brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 42,079
edited April 2013 in A Moving Train
Interesting video here. I'm not 100% with this latter half of the video (I mean, come on, only men have made important contributions?) and don't get pulled in by the piano music intended to cue emotions but this video makes some interesting observations.

Thoughts?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16K6m3Ua2nw
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  • JeanwahJeanwah Posts: 6,363
    I loved it. Now if only this wasn't a television series and people actually said this sort of thing on an everyday occasion.
  • dancepartnerdancepartner Posts: 324
    Yea.
    That's all.
    Nope. One more thing.
    When do we plan to get this country back on that great track? Or, is this a job somebody else should have already been doing for us?
  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 42,079
    Jeanwah wrote:
    I loved it. Now if only this wasn't a television series and people actually said this sort of thing on an everyday occasion.

    Yeah, I mostly liked it a lot. The friend who sent me the link said he thought it was great except for the inappropriate f-bombs. Personally, I thought the f-bombs were right on the mark! :lol:
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  • CAVSTARR313CAVSTARR313 Posts: 8,756
    I fucking thought it was fucking sweet.. fuck..

    and so so so true
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  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 42,079
    Caveeze wrote:
    I fucking thought it was fucking sweet.. fuck..

    and so so so true

    Me too... but part of it is that I envy anyone who can say "fuck" with that much authority!
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  • Prince Of DorknessPrince Of Dorkness Posts: 3,763
    have you seen his takedown of the very racially-targeted voter ID laws?

    It's brilliant.

    I honestly think that the last election was won not on the campaign ads that everyone pretty much ignores anyway but by videos like that. The Rosie Perez video tearing Mitt Romney to pieces for his "if I was Latino I'd have a better chance of winning this thing" comment and so many others like it.

    and he's right.
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  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 42,079
    Prince Of Dorkness wrote:
    have you seen his takedown of the very racially-targeted voter ID laws?

    It's brilliant.

    I honestly think that the last election was won not on the campaign ads that everyone pretty much ignores anyway but by videos like that. The Rosie Perez video tearing Mitt Romney to pieces for his "if I was Latino I'd have a better chance of winning this thing" comment and so many others like it.

    and he's right.

    No- do you have a link?

    Yes, the Rosie Perez video was great!
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  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAjX2aiX3PM
  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 42,079
    Thank you Norm!
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  • JeanwahJeanwah Posts: 6,363
    norm wrote:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAjX2aiX3PM

    That was great too. Can someone post a link to the Rosie Perez / Romney statement?
  • Prince Of DorknessPrince Of Dorkness Posts: 3,763
    Jeanwah wrote:
    That was great too. Can someone post a link to the Rosie Perez / Romney statement?


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVIrNxba0ls

    This is brilliant.

    She also did something else here, not just point out how Hispanics are actually NOT more likely win an election...

    She also works in Ricky Martin.

    While Ricky Martin might be a one-hit-wonder from the 90s to many white Americans... to Hispanic Americans... he's like Donny Osmond. They watched him grow up from a 9 year-old member of Menudo, becoming a successful actor on Spanish language TV, having a very successful career as a pop singer in Spanish for years before recording his first English language record... then becoming the biggest male pop star of the 90s and bringing Latin music to Americans.

    He's also a Broadway star, still sells out stadiums on his world tours and his records still sell huge... just not in America.

    To many Hispanic Americans, Ricky Martin feels like part of the family. They grew up with him. His coming out was a massive story for the Latino community and it was a huge factor in the very swift and strong support from their community. They didn't want to see one of their own attacked. It's different when it's family.

    So when Rosie Perez names him (the only other celebrity she names in Jimmy Smits who played the president on The West Wing), she kicked the chair out from under the other Romney video where he suggests Hispanics could be convinced to vote for Republicans if GLBT equality was shoved at them as a wedge issue.

    And then she does the vagina joke and he's done.
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  • JeanwahJeanwah Posts: 6,363
    Prince Of Dorkness wrote:
    Jeanwah wrote:
    That was great too. Can someone post a link to the Rosie Perez / Romney statement?


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVIrNxba0ls

    This is brilliant.

    She also did something else here, not just point out how Hispanics are actually NOT more likely win an election...

    She also works in Ricky Martin.

    While Ricky Martin might be a one-hit-wonder from the 90s to many white Americans... to Hispanic Americans... he's like Donny Osmond. They watched him grow up from a 9 year-old member of Menudo, becoming a successful actor on Spanish language TV, having a very successful career as a pop singer in Spanish for years before recording his first English language record... then becoming the biggest male pop star of the 90s and bringing Latin music to Americans.

    He's also a Broadway star, still sells out stadiums on his world tours and his records still sell huge... just not in America.

    To many Hispanic Americans, Ricky Martin feels like part of the family. They grew up with him. His coming out was a massive story for the Latino community and it was a huge factor in the very swift and strong support from their community. They didn't want to see one of their own attacked. It's different when it's family.

    So when Rosie Perez names him (the only other celebrity she names in Jimmy Smits who played the president on The West Wing), she kicked the chair out from under the other Romney video where he suggests Hispanics could be convinced to vote for Republicans if GLBT equality was shoved at them as a wedge issue.

    And then she does the vagina joke and he's done.

    Thanks, POD. That was brilliant.
  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 42,079
    Yeah, thank you POD! Rosie Perez is so amazing and this video is just great. I really enjoyed seeing it again.
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  • STAYSEASTAYSEA Posts: 3,814
    Bee Keeper!

    My eyes glazed over, the first time I saw this. I really like Bill Pullman!

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  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 42,079
    Bee Keeper-- :lol: I love it! Get's me every time. :)

    Yeah, Pullman. Pretty intense guy!

    Miami- yeah I remember that. It's probably a lot different from when I saw it in the mid 60's. Don Johnson would have been a couple years older than me- the tough looking kid on the beach kicking sand. :lol:
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  • DelciaDelcia Posts: 6
    Not sure that this matters but that isn't Bill Pullman... its Jeff Daniels the guy from Dumb and Dumber which makes this show so much better to me! Love this video and love this show!
  • STAYSEASTAYSEA Posts: 3,814
    Delcia wrote:
    Not sure that this matters but that isn't Bill Pullman... its Jeff Daniels the guy from Dumb and Dumber which makes this show so much better to me! Love this video and love this show!

    It is Jeff Daniels! :lol:

    I feel dumb and dumber now :lol:
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  • wolfamongwolveswolfamongwolves Posts: 2,414
    brianlux wrote:
    Interesting video here. I'm not 100% with this latter half of the video (I mean, come on, only men have made important contributions?) and don't get pulled in by the piano music intended to cue emotions but this video makes some interesting observations.

    Thoughts?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16K6m3Ua2nw

    I agree with your thoughts entirely.

    And the biggest problem with the latter half (apart from the heartstring piano) is that it makes the assumption that America once was the greatest country in the world. It never was for the simple reason that there is no "greatest country in the world". There's no such thing.

    It's a myth, a vacuous platitude, a simplistic catchphrase of nationalist propaganda and nothing more.
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  • satansbedsatansbed Posts: 2,139
    wolfamongwolves wrote:
    brianlux wrote:
    Interesting video here. I'm not 100% with this latter half of the video (I mean, come on, only men have made important contributions?) and don't get pulled in by the piano music intended to cue emotions but this video makes some interesting observations.

    Thoughts?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16K6m3Ua2nw

    I agree with your thoughts entirely.

    And the biggest problem with the latter half (apart from the heartstring piano) is that it makes the assumption that America once was the greatest country in the world. It never was for the simple reason that there is no "greatest country in the world". There's no such thing.

    It's a myth, a vacuous platitude, a simplistic catchphrase of nationalist propaganda and nothing more.
    I was just going to come here and post the exact same thing,

    Don't get me wrong, I like sorkin but he has a tendency to over simplify and over romanticise
  • polaris_xpolaris_x Posts: 13,559
    Jeanwah wrote:
    I loved it. Now if only this wasn't a television series and people actually said this sort of thing on an everyday occasion.

    i've been saying it for years!! ... :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    in light of cnn going all cnn today...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yneNu4rFe70
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