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Wow, Obama girl critizes Clinton? Really? How the hell did that happen?

But on a more serious(or not) note, Obama is gonna get alot of votes from Obama girl. She’s pretty damn hot.

First thoughts on this video? This is pretty effective propaganda, the video might as well have been 3 minutes of Microsoft Sam saying “VoteObamamVoteObamaVoteObama….”. In the whole video it was just “Vote Obama” in various different reincarnations, it wouldn’t be as bad, if it weren’t for the fact that none of the claims are substantiated. Actually I was a bit hesitant in calling it propaganda before. I change my mind, this s*** is propaganda.

In the video, and various other videos on the Barely Political site, it points at various television networks and shouts “biased!“. What the hell? What is Barely Political if not biased? Barely Poltical is biased on a level that no news service (except maybe fox) is, it only avoids backlash because it makes itself to be a light hearted comedy site. Which it is, but it’s comedy that’s manipulating people’s opinions through positive associations with the candidate it supports, not through reason as political coverage should be. If you look at the dynamics of the site, the traffic and popularity it has, is built supporting Obama, so if you think about it, if they want to keep the popularity and traffic(and the revenue they gain from the traffic), they have to more or less present pro-Obama views. Imagine if they were to start supporting Clinton, I doubt they’d get as much traffic, and the scantily clad women would create conflict with the pro-feminist part of Clinton’s campaign. It raises the possibility that Barely Political support Obama, simply because they want to retain their traffic/popularity. (more…)

The rain has come as the writers’ strike is over. But the long drought has left Hollywood brittle and parched as the writers’ strike has halted many plans and events. Who would have known a bunch of off screen paper churners would bring the whole entertainment industry down to the extent that the Golden Globes was desiccated.

It seems the WGAs (writers’ association) are so fired up because the writers aren’t getting a slice of the DVD sales pie. TV show DVD’s are not a very big seller. They’re lucky that the DVD buyers haven’t discovered p2p or torrents. What they should be more scared of is the internet. (Lets hope they never get fired up about the internet. Imagine what they’ll do. Kill the internets?)

This squabble over a slice of old pie about to be rotten pie has caused havoc already. Without the writers creating the scripts for shows has been left many shows without a storyline. Many shows have had to end their season early and continue later in a new season. Show like Heroes, Pushing Daisies and Bones had to or will run until they ran out of episodes and end the season abruptly. Most of these shows are betting on the next season overcome the disturbance. Some of the more resilient names in show biz such as Desperate Housewives, The Office and Scrubs have just gone on a break or temporary gap (a nice interseason holiday for the crew). Then there are the shows who were left out to dry with their futures uncertain. The seventh season of 24 is the hardest hit as it was scheduled to begin during the writers’ strike and it was necessary for the season for the show to have 24 episodes. The dwindling franchise would have problems keeping ratings if they had to halt seasons as it is episode intensive. The writer’s strike also weeded out those shows that were not faring well. Show like Bionic Woman that had horrid ratings was put on hiatus with future episodes or seasons in limbo. Reports say that Bionic Woman has been cancelled has been raised but not confirmed. (more…)