Citizens Against Government Waste not amused by Campus Progress spoof of its ad

ProSense

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Fri Oct-22-10 07:10 PM
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Citizens Against Government Waste not amused by Campus Progress spoof of its ad

Steve Benen

* Remember the Citizens Against Government Waste ad we talked about earlier? Campus Progress quickly put together a very clever spoof, which (a) is pretty darn clever; and (b) already annoying the hell out of Citizens Against Government Waste. (thanks to reader K.A. for the tip)

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mucifer

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Fri Oct-22-10 07:13 PM
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1. Evil Chinese people. I didn't like the ad. nt.

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Aristus

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Fri Oct-22-10 07:18 PM
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2. The spoof video has been pulled from YouTube.

Anybody got a link to it?

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daleanime

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Fri Oct-22-10 07:25 PM
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3. That was quick....

somebody's throwing a little money around.

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ProSense

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Sat Oct-23-10 05:18 PM
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5. It was just

Edited on Sat Oct-23-10 05:18 PM by ProSense

posted in the video forum

Don't know how long that will last.

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trayfoot

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Sat Oct-23-10 08:49 PM
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7. Why doesn't Move-On or someone put it "on the air"!?

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jillan

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Sat Oct-23-10 09:18 PM
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8. It's still at HuffPo

Click on the smaller video

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/22/cagw-china-future-ad_n_772623.html

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Teaser

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Sat Oct-23-10 10:22 PM
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9. pulled "due to a copyright claim"

uh, isn't parody protected from copyright claims?

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boppers

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Sat Oct-23-10 10:27 PM
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10. Yes, but the way youtube works is this:

1. Video gets posted
2. Complaint gets issued
3. Video is removed
4. User can *re-post*, with justification/explanation

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HCE SuiGeneris

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Fri Oct-22-10 07:45 PM
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4. This vid is pretty good too...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycdiCL5ZOP8

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boppers

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Sat Oct-23-10 05:31 PM
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6. Sponsored by the "I Know Karate Party"!

Cute.

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