Morris Should Sell Obama

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Open letter to Barack Obama campaign manager David Plouffe: In 2004 Oscar-winning documentarian Errol Morris (Standard Operating Procedure, The Fog of War), working with MoveOn.org, created a brilliant series of TV ads about "real people" (mostly Republicans) who'd voted for George Bush in 2000, but had decided to vote for John Kerry in 2004. This year, there are many more Republicans talking about voting for Obama than were persuaded about Kerry four years ago. See where I'm going with this?

Standard Operating Procedure director Errol Morris -- Thursday, 4.10, 4:50 pm.

I'm frankly surprised that you guys, being as savvy as you are at political ads, haven't yourselves contacted Morris about doing a series of spots about Obamacans, and this time actually put them on the air. Oh, you didn't know? Morris's '04 spots never went on TV -- they were viewable only at moveon.org, and later, of course, at errolmorris.com. Democrats!

Morris told me Thursday he's definitely open to coming up with a series of Obama spots. Perhaps he'll even devise something better than the Republican switch idea. (Or not.) You should make this happen either way. You've obviously flush enough to hire the Frank Lloyd Wright of documentarians, and getting a bunch of Obama-favoring non-liberal Average Joes to speak to Republicans, independents and Reagan Democrats could seriously influence things, especially with about half the independents leaning toward McCain right now.

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ROTC says ...

Jeff, when I saw the headline, my first thought was that you wanted Obama to sign up Dick Morris. Whew!

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Mgmax says ...

I'm pretty sure this is NOT Seem Even More College-Film-Society-ish Week in the Obama campaign.

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Glenn Kenny says ...

Jesus, Jeff. Errol Morris is the last goddamn thing Obama needs right now. Do you have no clue, even after all this time, about how the right-wing noise machine works? "Now we find the elitist Obama working with art-movie sweetheart Errol Morris, whose latest anti-American screed 'Standard Operating Procedure' is hitting (hopefully not too many) theaters now..." etcetera etcetera etcetera.

Also, Morris' spots didn't do Kerry a goddamn bit of good.

You can kick and scream and hold your breath until your face is blue about Gorilla America all you want, but Obama's gonna need some of their votes if he's gonna make it. And Morris ain't gonna get them for him. This election is not going to work according to any of your noblest-case-scenario schemes.

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bikinigirl says ...

It was said that she has a personal account on the free and hot celeb & millionaire dating hub'RichMatchMaki ng.c om......' with her hot pictures taken on beach in bikini. The site is getting hotter and hotter, cuz quite a few millionaires and celebrities tend to go there.

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Pelham123 says ...

Oh no, Obama was seen talking with someone who wore a suit jacket, pants and shined shoes! And they were in a room with electricity! I bet they even brushed their teeth and used complete sentences. A book may have been discussed. They even shaved! Elitists, each and every one of them. Get the torches -- they're still fresh with that $4.00 gasoline smell.

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Dave Polands Gut says ...

No conservative or even center minded Indy will vote for Obama once they realize hes as far left as any politician that has ever run for office.

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