Comments on: Mike Gravel keeps it real

By: doug l

doug l — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 03:02:18 +0000

You’re right about how, for some reason, Gravel comes off as the only legitimate source of wisdom in the current political scene (something rare in politics at any time and it seems especially now). I’d love to see this guy come out with a plan for a national permanent fund like Alaska has…now THAT would be the start of power to the people. Those that control the purssetrings need to be themselves controlled…and not given too many opportunities for temptation from the gold drippin’ lobbyists.

By: garry shandling

garry shandling — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:45:18 +0000

a lot of the background is taken from an amazing 1975 short “200″ (http://www.archive.org/details/200), and his “rap” is real and unedited! (I heard it on NPR!)

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By: db

db — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 19:38:42 +0000

I doubt this came from Gravel’s mind, but kudos to him for going with it.

I imagined Obama, Edwards, or other candidates doing this and laughed when I realized they would probably be seen as disingenuous and pandering. But not this old man Gravel.

Some of his ideas are scary wrong, but I’ve never felt he’s twisted his message to be more popular. Thus he can get away with a hippy-trippy video. Because he really means it.

So yea, terrific campaign vid directed straight at his current fans. It’ll work. With what’s been happening over the last week, it probably already has.

By: Martin

Martin — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 15:05:10 +0000

Who’s trivializing? I think it’s great. I love Gravel and wish he had more traction–maybe stunts like this will get him attention.

By: Ken

Ken — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 07:22:45 +0000

http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/usia/

Above is/was the USIA (see the production credits at the 01:50 mark of the vid) so… I doubt the real (defunt) USIA put this out, enteraining as it is, it’s obviously NOT a gravel campaign (quirky enough but… obviously a cut and pate for the audio & vid)

By: Dan Van Riper

Dan Van Riper — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 06:29:29 +0000

Pretty amazing. This makes more sense than any campaign ad I’ve ever seen. I’ll bet this little movie wins him a lot of supporters.

By: Discourse.net

Discourse.net — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 06:15:00 +0000

The Internet Is a Giant ‘Topping’ Exercise…

When I took Theater Studies 100 as a college freshman, one of the exercises we did was a “topping” exercise. You had to tell a story, and somewhere in it you had to show that something was even MORE than you first realized (the fish was big…

By: Bored

Bored — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 23:06:14 +0000

This is an amazing work- what’s up with trivializing it?

Besides being catchy, it’s pretty dramatic. I’m pretty sure this was by the guy who did Bush singing “Sunday Bloody Sunday”.

By: John Lennon

John Lennon — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:20:45 +0000

Isn’t it from a comercial for soda pop?
No, it was that old mattress commercial from the sixties with the couple that stayed in bed a week.

All we are saying … is give peace a chance.

By: E Rocha

E Rocha — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 14:15:31 +0000

Thanks Martin.

I don’t know what it is about this song. but it is pretty catchy.

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Mike Gravel keeps it real — rap mash-up video…

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By: www.buzzflash.net

www.buzzflash.net — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:03:55 +0000

Mike Gravel keeps it real…

Mike Gravel raps for democracy. Wow….