Every now and again, Pet Rock gets an email that we need to share with the masses. Lucky for us, this email arrived on Friday. Even luckier for us, it's a YouTube video.
You've probably (hopefully!) heard the recent "Barack Obama is jacking for speeches" news about his public speaking being eerily similar to that of Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick.
Well, this enterprising YouTuber named 395v0538527 -- a Hillary alias, perhaps? -- shows the power of editing and political influence in today's world. And if you can't laugh at the usage of the second greatest interview of all time, then go away and read something else.
Props to Blastmaster friend Scurvy Scurv for doing my job for me.
- Mark La Monica
Comments (3)
Begs the question for all who are so moved by him as a orator and are being persuaded to vote for him, who are they really voting for? And of course the obvious of why are people still allowing themselves to be influenced by professional speech writers and sound bites? But wait a minute, if that's the 2nd greatest interview of all time, what's the first?
Obama has used Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick’s speech excerpts MORE THAN ONCE. The problem is, he has been passing them off as his own. Should Obama supporters be voting for Patrick? When Oprah said “what’s the big deal?” when James Frey made things up in his nonfiction memoir, she was wrong and ignorant. It is not okay, and certainly not a good model for our children, to say crediting sources is not important and that crowd rallying language is above plagiarism.
The only interview that beats Vanilla's "ding-ding-ding-da-da-ding-ding---ta--" video is Mitch "Blood" Green's description of his street fight with Mike Tyson outside of a dapper tailor shop in Harlem in the late 80s. I don't think it's available on you tube due to the language involved.
Green remarked, from behind dark sunglasses, clearly sporting a huge, swollen black eye, along with a cut lip, "He sucka punched me, and then, like a sissy, a homo, he ran!"