Moby 'The Day' Video: MoveOn Teams With Artist To Bash Spending Cuts

WASHINGTON - Barack Obama's 2008 campaign was propelled by a number of high-profile music videos from artists boosting his candidacy.

It's a different picture in 2012.

The first track released from Moby's new album, Destroyed, is a broadside against the Obama-GOP budget. "The Day" features images of some of the 30,000 critics of spending cuts who fasted in opposition, organized by MoveOn.org.

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UPDATE: Moby's video doesn't specifically address the final deal cut between House Republicans and Obama, but Mobe insists that the same principle applies. In an email to HuffPost, he explains his continued opposition.

MoveOn started gathering the photos before the budget deal, although I don't think [we] finished editing it until the night before we released it. But the new budget deal still cuts programs that benefit the most vulnerable members of society, while letting the powerful—ceo's and defense contractors—off the hook. More than half of the $38 billion in cuts target education, labor, and health programs.

It's true that the worst cuts and riders didn't make it into the budget—but that was the Republican plan all along: propose the unthinkable, threaten to shut down the government, and then walk away with cuts that would have been beyond the pale just a few months ago.

Apparently 85% of moveon members oppose the new budget deal because it still is based on the wrong priorities. So the rolling fast is continuing, and the message remains just as pertinent and strong, in my opinion, as it did before the new budget deal. This is an ongoing fight and one I was happy to help out with.