David Bossie's 'Hype: The Barack Obama Effect' aims to portray the Democrat as an extremist radical

[Nambe]

Source: Guardian News and Media Limited

The title of the film playing in the darkened movie theatre said it all. "Hype: The Obama Effect" was not going to be a sympathetic treatment of the Democratic candidate for the presidency.

But then, screened at a small arts cinema next to a row of topless bars in downtown Minneapolis, Hype was playing to a partisan crowd of Republican delegates attending the party convention in nearby St Paul.

The film's executive producer, David Bossie, urged the audience to take free DVDs of the film and show it to friends back home. He offered to help anyone wanting to put on a show in a local church or veterans hall.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/05/uselections2008.barackobama2

[unhappycamper]

1. How convienent.

They could have played the movie in the topless bars and saved those extra steps. Just sayin.....

[TomClash]

2. Barack is a radical extremist to them

He believes in liberty and democracy, health care and jbos, a rational foreign policy and an end to a foolish war. For a Republican these days that's pretty radical.

[Enrique]

3. and McCain is saying Obama is "business as usual"

maybe some would-be McCain voters will realize republicans are full of shit. :shrug:

[AlphaCentauri]

4. Australopithecus afarensis criticizing the Homo Sapient