The GOP's New Youth Outreach Effort: Lady Gaga Parody

"Wish I could shut my playboy mouth, oh oh oh-oh..."
-- Lady Gaga, "Just Dance"

if you look at the vids on this youtube channel, they really feels like astroturf to me - are these vids an admitted republican campaign?

Uh, about 3:00 mark when he divides his money between government and me he gives the government $120 and himself $40. That's 120/160 = 75% taxes! Hahaha ergh : (

And who is the politician at the 3:40 mark? Bush? Carter? Anyway, I think astroturf is a good characterization for how it feels w/r/t grass and of course the fact that it's co-opted by the Repugs for Tech Initiative!

If Republicans stopped futzing around with NEW TECH they might be able to make some policy at some point during this administration. They remind me of the kid who was acting up, got punished, and is now on a grudge tantrum for the next month.

I don't wish ill on the video sprite, but just not sure he deserves much attention other than the video telling you (not showing you) that you can autotune on a Mac.

ok, i did a little digging into the origins of the video. peter cowman, 23, is the video maker, a recent graduate of the university of washington (which the AP article on this yesterday mentioned, i'm no sherlock holmes). peter is also a founder of movered.org, a young republican group funded by the King County (Wash.) Republican Party. he worked on the state AG's re-election campaign this last fall. none of this is really shocking, of course. his connections to the washington state republican party are clearly how rep. reichert got wind of this, his staffers have to know this dude. its hard to say these videos are getting a lot of "funding" as they are pretty low budget affairs. but clearly peter understands the internet is a powerful force in politics and he's trying to do some jokes from the conservative side. he does need to work on the "funny" part though.