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Thursday, October 9, 2008
Fake Candidate Paris Discusses Campaign With Fake President Sheen
After the McCain campaign ran an ad calling Barack Obama a “celebrity” and included a photo of Paris Hilton in the spot for reasons that still don’t make sense, Hilton responded with her own ad announcing her candidacy for president. It received wide play on YouTube and bits of it appeared on The Daily Show and The Colbert Report as well as MSNBC and other cable news networks.
It seems that the professional celebrity is serious about her fake candidacy, seeking out advice on the presidency from fake TV president Martin Sheen. The website FunnyOrDie.com managed to capture their conversation on film.
If you were born in post-war Milwaukee, you were born a Democrat. So I gravitated naturally to liberal politics, first as journalist and then an activist. I've been writing since I was eight years old and, after working far too long in newsrooms - local newspapers, major market television and radio stations, assistant editor of a major business newsweekly - I've spent much of the past decade as an independent investigtative jouralist. Media outlets have published, cited or quoted me including The Globe and Mail, The National Post, The Financial Post, TruthOut, LA Progressive, UK Progressive, TVO, PBS and BBC News. When not covering and writing about politics, I scribble out random thoughts on the peculiarites of modern times.
Tom Degan
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