Here are the 15 finalists in moveon.org voter fund’s amateur Moveon.org says it created the ad contest “to bring new talent and new messages into the My favorites among the finalists are “Child’s Play,” “Desktop,” “Bush’s Repair Shop” and The winner, to be chosen by a jury, will be announced on Monday. The jurors include various Here are the 15 finalists in moveon.org voter fund’s amateur “Bush in 30 Seconds” political ad contest. To watch the ads, just click on the high- or low-bandwith versions (and don’t forget to click the left arrow when the screen comes up). Some of them are terrific. For a quick taste, here’s a random sample of photo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-8d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSeconds”<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> political ad contest. To watch the ads, just click on the high-
\nor low-bandwith versions (and don’t forget to click the left arrow when the screen comes up).
\nSome of them are terrific. For a quick taste, here’s a random sample of photo stills
\nfrom six of the 30-second spots:
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\nworld of mainstream political advertising” and is seeking “the ad that best explains what [the
\nMaximum Leader] and his policies are really about — in only 30 seconds.” <\/P>
\n
\n“Gone in 30 Seconds.” Oh, and here’s a minute-long, must-see
\nad for Halliburton<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> by Mark Fiore. It’s not part of the contest, but it
\nwould make a funny spot.<\/P>
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\nshow-biz types (Jack Black, Benny Boom, Margaret Cho, Hector Alizondo, Al Franken,
\nJaneane Garofalo, Ted Hope, Michael Mann, Moby, Michael Moore, Tony Shalhoub, Russell
\nSimmons, Michael Stipe, Gus Van Sant), two political strategists (Donna Brazille and James
\nCarville), one pollster (Stan Greenberg), one intellectual (Katrina Vanden Heuvel), and — to
\nlend authority — a partridge in a pear tree.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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