Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, John Legend Join MoveOn For

Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, John Legend Join MoveOn For "Obama In 30 Seconds"

Huffington Post   |   March 13, 2008 12:04 PM


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MoveOn.org is teaming up with Hollywood to produce an ad for Barack Obama. Actually, there hoping that readers all over will submit their own pro-Obama slots for a chance at earning national airtime. From the press release:

MoveOn.org joined forces today with Academy Award-winners Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Oliver Stone, multiple Grammy-winner John Legend and author Naomi Wolf to announce a new ad contest, "Obama in 30 Seconds." The contest provides a platform for Obama supporters to show in 30-second spots what inspires them about the Senator's candidacy. MoveOn will buy time to run the winning ad on national television.

Entries will be viewed by a celebrity panel:

The ads, which will be submitted at the "Obama in 30 Seconds" website, will be judged by a celebrity judging panel that includes Academy Award-winning writer/actor/director Ben Affleck; Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated actor/director Steve Buscemi; Academy Award-winning writer/actor Matt Damon; progressive hero & future Congresswoman Donna Edwards; musician/activist Michael Franti; actor/musician/director Adrian Grenier; Academy Award-nominated producer Ted Hope; author & civil rights leader Reverend Jesse Jackson; award-winning documentary filmmaker Rory Kennedy; Grammy-winning recording artist John Legend; Stanford Law professor & founder of the Center for Internet and Society Lawrence Lessig; recording artist & Bush in 30 Seconds co-founder Moby; Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas; President of Lionsgate Entertainment Tom Ortenberg; Native American activist and documentary filmmaker Heather Rae; President of Focus Features James Schamus; producer, author, and entrepreneur Russell Simmons; author, lecturer, & experimental hip hop musician DJ Spooky; Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker Ricki Stern; Academy Award-winning writer/director Oliver Stone; Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker Annie Sundberg; Grammy & Golden Globe award-winning songwriter and musician Eddie Vedder; and New York Times best-selling author Naomi Wolf.

For more information, check out the Obama In 30 Seconds website.

Watch the promo:


 
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These guys are so lame, who cares. They are not you and I. They don't live in the real world.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:10 PM on 03/15/2008
- AjicNYC I'm a Fan of AjicNYC 4 fans permalink

I hear hillary has the cast of HIGH SCHOOL THE MUSICAL cast to sing her campaign song..so take that ... lol.. This is ridiculous, who cares what these millionaires think why dont they just sit back and collect there dough and pump out hollywood crap

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:33 PM on 03/15/2008
- ObGyn I'm a Fan of ObGyn 5 fans permalink
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Here is an example from Lessig. It is 20 minutes long but worth the listen:

http://www.lessig.org/blog/2008/02/20_minutes_or_so_on_why_i_am_4.html

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:03 PM on 03/15/2008
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Maybe they can use some of the Jeremiah Wright video in their ads! Yes, we can!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:45 PM on 03/15/2008
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They carry weight-- they are the young rat pack of hollywood-- just like JFK had his young rat pack back then...

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:10 PM on 03/15/2008

I think Ben has a future in politics if he so chooses. I would however, if I were him, step away from this project.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:12 AM on 03/15/2008

Wow....
Two more men I had hope for that are not studying the issues
So much for a vote for Ben if he ever decides to run for public office..
He is about as deep as a mud puddle in a parking lot!!!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:24 AM on 03/15/2008
- markkraft I'm a Fan of markkraft 15 fans permalink

Did you hear about Matt and Ben?!! Why... could it be?!?

Yes. they can!

I think they're f*cking Mrs. Clinton!
(Oh yeah, they're f*cking Mrs. Clinton!)
But they won't do it in a bed...!
Matt and Ben f*cking Mrs. Clinton
(Oh yeah, they're f*cking Mrs. Clinton!)
but in a voting booth instead!

In Pennsylvania, in Guam,
In Carolina... get it on!

Matt and Ben f*cking Mrs. Clinton...
(Oh yeah, they're f*cking Mrs. Clinton!)
...because I think they've had enough!
Matt and Ben f*cking Mrs. Clinton
(Oh yeah, they're f*cking Mrs. Clinton!)
and the choice wasn't even tough.

Revealing earmarks and income tax.
Obama's sharp, where Hillary's lax.
On Iraq and now Iran,
it's damn clear Barack's their man!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:27 PM on 03/14/2008

Move On rocks and kick ars.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:57 PM on 03/14/2008
- mutatio I'm a Fan of mutatio 3 fans permalink

They should do an "I'm f@cking Obama video!" LOL

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:24 PM on 03/14/2008

I think it strengthens Hillary's positions. These people in Hollywood have no idea (anymore) what life in these United States is like now. Most Americans know this. It is the "whatever" generation that these folks represent anyway. SO, "whatever".

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:58 AM on 03/14/2008

Hilary didn't seem to mind when Ben Affleck campaigned for her in NY State during her 2000 Senate run. I stopped watching anything he was in after that, since he obviously didn't need my money if he had time to campaign in a state where he didn't live for a candidiate who also didn't live there.

Guess I'll have to start buying tickets to his movies again....

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:54 AM on 03/14/2008
- markkraft I'm a Fan of markkraft 15 fans permalink

Way to go, Mr. Cynical!

Insult them when they're not being politically active and giving a damn...
... and insult them when they are.

There's no winning with you, Mr. Cynical!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:30 PM on 03/14/2008
- donchep I'm a Fan of donchep 6 fans permalink
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Please, Hillary and Bill whored out the Lincoln Bedroom to the Hollywood set for the entire 8 year run. The strategy of making Hillary separate only works if she truly were. I bet Barbra Streisand still thinks she'll be getting a cabinet position.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:05 AM on 03/16/2008
- Tyrione I'm a Fan of Tyrione 42 fans permalink
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While Matt Damon is f***ing Sarah Silverman I'll borrow his wife. The man has great taste in women. Outside of that, I could care less what his political stance entails.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:17 AM on 03/14/2008

who cares what actors think? Like I'm going to vote for Obama just because Matt Damon and all the "cool" people like him? This is an insult to the average American. How shallow do you think we are? Actors live in an entirely different world than most of us.
But, I guess it does follow a certain pattern: No Substance!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:15 PM on 03/13/2008

LOL!!!!!!! Suddenly Clinton supporters don't care what actors think!!!! LOL!!!!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:12 PM on 03/13/2008
- Felicty I'm a Fan of Felicty 31 fans permalink
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That's because they are doing their best to mimic the stances of the Republican Party.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:17 PM on 03/14/2008
- mesuki I'm a Fan of mesuki 12 fans permalink

Actors may run in different circles than you do,but we all live in the same world. The fact that you are voting for old Greedy and vicious Hillary shows that you're very shallow and you have no substance.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:29 PM on 03/13/2008

You seem extremely insulted, so we can deduce from your reasoning that you must be average. When you are ready to be more than average (and graduate from the Hillary camp), let the Obama campaign know... I'm sure they'll welcome you with open arms.

Yes You Can!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:59 PM on 03/13/2008
- markkraft I'm a Fan of markkraft 15 fans permalink

Well, if you support Hillary Clinton, I guess the answer would be "pretty shallow".

Hillary Clinton's supporters universally display a kind of victim mentality and sense of entitlement that frankly turns most Americans off, bigtime.

If you'd rather be treated like a focus group to be pandered to than an actual citizen, well... Hillary is your man.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:34 PM on 03/14/2008
- Shantee I'm a Fan of Shantee 5 fans permalink

very shallow! an insult to the average american? it is the average american who goes to the movies that supports the actors and their lavish lifestyle.

i think what ben and matt are doing is tremendous...engaging people in the process, inviting people to express their creativity.


'Obama presents a view of governing that is inclusive and relies on Americans to work with their government to solve sobering probelms at home and abroad. By contrast Clinton promotes a self-centered governing style that drives home what she would do as president. She asks very little of Americans and discourages opposing views'

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:29 AM on 03/15/2008

Oh great. More movies to boycott.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:24 PM on 03/13/2008

What's your problem?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:15 PM on 03/13/2008

that was such a slanted "news" story.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:16 AM on 03/15/2008
- Politiking I'm a Fan of Politiking 3 fans permalink

30 Seconds is a lot of time to fill it with bogus experience but not enough for an Obama speech.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:15 PM on 03/13/2008
- HumeSkeptic I'm a Fan of HumeSkeptic 1627 fans permalink
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They can always use Hillary's bogus claims. Hey! I recently heard that it was Hillary who advised Nixon to vist China, and Kissinger took most of the credit. The same thing they did to her in Russia. She is the one who came up with perestroika, nor Gorbachev.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:17 PM on 03/13/2008

I think you have the makings of a good commercial there....

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:27 PM on 03/13/2008
- Felicty I'm a Fan of Felicty 31 fans permalink
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You also forgot to mention that she discovered FIRE.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:18 PM on 03/14/2008
- rmetz74 I'm a Fan of rmetz74 10 fans permalink

It's obviously enough time for an old, ineffective Hillary talking point.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:13 PM on 03/13/2008

This experience thing is a ruse. Obama is obviously a capable leader, and if he chooses the right advisors and folk for his cabinet he will be one of our most effective leaders ever. I am not saying Hillary can't be as effective. She probably can. I am just saying that this argument is a distraction and is not valid. And for Mc Cain and experience? Well, if you have all the wrong ideas (um, I hear Lamar Alexander in there somewhere) then it does not mater what level of experience you have.

Obama can lead this country out of the thicket that the right wing freaks have led us into. Of the three remaining candidates, he is the only one to vote for.

OBAMA 08!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:11 PM on 03/13/2008

I have never argued that Hillary isn't capable for the same reasons. But so amazing to me is where people actually buy this experience crap.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:15 PM on 03/13/2008

What a tool.

Typical poor, uneducated Clinton supporter.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:44 AM on 03/14/2008
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