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Chuck Devore, Don Henley And The End Of Civilization...
Friday, Apr. 3 2009 @ 1:58PM
By Spencer Kornhaber in Politics, Wacky Vids
We're a few days late to this April Fools project from the Chuck DeVore
for Senate campaign. Somehow, we're not the only ones to miss the premier, as only 591
people have seen the thing. There are really no words to help here.
Just watch.
Justin Hart, the campaign's director of internet strategies and new media, assured me in an email that it was him singing, not the Assemblyman. Mr DeVore did write the lyrics, though, and published them last week on Big Hollywood.
The new-media department is really the main thing that the DeVore campaign has going for it at the moment, especially in light of an increasingly likely primary challenge from super-rich ex-CEO celeb Carly Fiorina. The DeVore camp might be small, not-well-known, and facing a popular incumbent Democratic senator (Barbara Boxer), but they're willing to do what no other challenger would: Tear every conceivable page from the netroots-activism playbook, wad them into spitballs, and then shoot them into yawning morass of the Internet.
Chuck DeVore: Willing to look like a buffoon -- and subject himself to snarky blog attacks (ahem) -- in hopes of becoming the Snakes On A Plane of the 2010 elections. Except, like, successful.
And, Hart says, there'll be a non-April Fools contest related to this video, details to be announced next week. Of course, that's assuming that the gods of taste, tunes and the Eagles haven't decided to smite the Earth by then.
Justin Hart, the campaign's director of internet strategies and new media, assured me in an email that it was him singing, not the Assemblyman. Mr DeVore did write the lyrics, though, and published them last week on Big Hollywood.
The new-media department is really the main thing that the DeVore campaign has going for it at the moment, especially in light of an increasingly likely primary challenge from super-rich ex-CEO celeb Carly Fiorina. The DeVore camp might be small, not-well-known, and facing a popular incumbent Democratic senator (Barbara Boxer), but they're willing to do what no other challenger would: Tear every conceivable page from the netroots-activism playbook, wad them into spitballs, and then shoot them into yawning morass of the Internet.
Chuck DeVore: Willing to look like a buffoon -- and subject himself to snarky blog attacks (ahem) -- in hopes of becoming the Snakes On A Plane of the 2010 elections. Except, like, successful.
And, Hart says, there'll be a non-April Fools contest related to this video, details to be announced next week. Of course, that's assuming that the gods of taste, tunes and the Eagles haven't decided to smite the Earth by then.
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Dan Chmielewski says:
God this is painfully pathetic. It reminds me of the TV spots Chuck ran while running for Irvine City Council in 2002 -- a race he lost -- trying to get his dog to speak.
Well, once Carly Fiorina jumps in the race, Chuck can take that massive amount of money raised via Twitter ($1,600 still?) and print business cards that say "Nuclear Energy Consultant."
Posted on Saturday, Apr. 4 2009 @ 9:06AM