Web Ad for Bobby Jindal Uses Celebrity Voices (and Mine) Without Permission

An ad on the web for Bobby Jindal uses a number of celebrity voices seemingly endorsing Jindal and offering high praise of the governor. The only problem is that all of the quotes are taken out of context and without permission.

How do I know? I'm one of the voices they used, which is quite curious because I am neither a celebrity nor anywhere near a Bobby Jindal fan.

Some of the other voices in the ad include Chris Matthews of MSNBC, David Gregory of NBC, Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post, Chris Wallace and Alan Colmes of Fox News (I believe Jay Leno is also in there, but that is not confirmed yet).

Of course, none of these people have endorsed Gov. Jindal and their quotes praising him are taken wildly out context. To give you a sense how absurdly out of context these quotes are, look at the Jindal promotional video below. Then look at the video they took my quotes from. Do I sound like I'm praising him in the second video?

Bobby Jindal for President, 2012:

Original Young Turks Video on Bobby Jindal:

Do I appear to be a big supporter of Bobby Jindal? The ad took my quote on how Jindal got accepted into all of these great schools and high positions in government. What it left out was the part where I said that was surprising given that he is otherwise, "Coo coo for Cocoa Puffs." How much more out of context could my quotes have been?

A group called "AmericaForChange" put up this promotional ad for Jindal on You Tube. I don't know who they are. They never contacted me to get permission to use my voice in their ad. I don't know if Gov. Jindal has any connection to them. If he does, he should renounce this practice of using unauthorized, out of context quotes from people who have no interest in endorsing or praising Gov. Jindal.

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Comments

[Kelly Lincoln]

three words:
DMCA TAKEDOWN NOTICE

[roald]

Sorry, I couldn't watch the whole thing, but I noticed "The Next President of America". Weren't the Right up in arms about a North American Union, implied by the President of America?

[TParrish]

I think I see the potential for a new line of jewelry (or t-shirts) containing a personalized copyright notice. I mean, is that what it is going to take to keep people from cherry-picking words and phrases in order to cobble them together into a multimedia version of a "psycho-st­alker-word­s-cut-from­-magazines letter"? Like this:
http://missingexploited.com/2005/12/24/tim-miller-of-texas-equusearch-allegedly-received-note-from-daughters-killer/

Sue the bastards. They used your words out of context without your permission, in order to create a false impression of your position. Give them their own little financial downturn. They can blame it on President Obama.

[Shammie2000]

John Kerry's 2004 off camera gaffe (he thought) these republican's are the biggest lying, cheat's,
thives that one could ever meet, OH ! that camera is on, well, well, my quote was taken out of context.

[Texas4Obama]

Yep, that IS Jay Leno's voice at the end of the clip.

[Texas4Obama]

The majority of republicans are dishonest, corrupt and sleazy.

Obama 2012

[qxav949]

Mr. Uygur, you said it so live with it. Were it me, I would do as the President would do.
Yes, I WILL NOT SPEAK ABOUT SOMETHING UNTIL I KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. The same applies for Jindal and all the others.
You and many others heard of his academic achievements, may have seen and heard a few testimonies o nhis behalf, others may have indeed seen his academic record. All those things do not a smart person make. The individual I saw deliver that crappy speech, mock the President's plans for volcano monitoring and high speed rail, and I won't even include the deranged religious inclinations, I will profess that he has shown me that he is not smart.
2012 is still a way off, and he can learn and improve, but when your citizens in Louisiana are desperate for unemployment benefits and you refuse the Federal Gov't's help, essentially dooming those people and their families, then that's not smart politically, academically, ethically or morally.

[Ugonna]

Cenk was not praising Jindal at all though. If you see the real clip, he was actually dissing Jindal. That is why Cenk is mad.

[DemSim]

Sorry, Bobby "Brady" Jindal.
Republicans are extinct.

[WilliamProc]

Why does this surprise you, Cenk?

Every month the Republicans are putting out media material without the consent of commentators or artists. Think of it like this, you are now with Aerosmith as being one of many whose words and music is being stolen by the Repubs for their own gain. Congrats!

[StringOfLights]

Obama's been in office two and a half months and Republicans are campaigning for change? WTF.

[PlayTOE]

Jindal does an advert on honesty in politics while also quote mining and using words out of context to give himself fake endorsements.

However, the faith healing exorcism bit should make folks wonder what sort of medical practitioners he would authorize. Witch-doctors & the daemon cause of disease could become his new American standard of treatment. If you torture a person for long enough they will admit to being daemon possessed and cured of a disease.

[tallturtle]

I'm impressed with the rehabilitation of of the Rhodes Scholarship. You say that Jindal's winning of a Rhodes proves that he is smart. Just ten years ago, Clinton's winning of a Rhodes proved that he was a coward.

[Klaus Teller]

I don't like the GOP and the whole cabal. But the fact to the matter is that you said that he is smart. And he just replayed what you said. Sorry! Next time you will probably be careful when complimenting people even if you do it later on criticize them.

[Rogan]

I am smart, but I am also absolutely verifiably crazy.

...Do you believe that I just insisted without qualification that I am "smart"?

...Do you believe that it would be an accurate quote, if someone were to claim that I claim to be smart, without including the rest of the first sentence I wrote? ROGAN: "I am smart..." - end of quote.

You see now how you're mistaken, don't you? (I hope.)

[Tonyrich300]

Can someone start sueing these rethugs out of business??? From AmericaForChange for this, to O'reilly for this attack on Amanda Terkel while she was on vacation. C'mon people!!!

[dreadylocks]

another youtube copyright suit....

yeah, that's gonna work....

[Cinnamonape]

What would be really funny is to actually get permission to pastiche together the greater "contextual" comments by these same people and make a video out of that. The "CooCoo for Cocoa Puffs" comment would be a great crowning moment! Maybe complete with footage from "The Exorcist" or "Beezulbub".

[sasidechick]

That sounds like a great idea. Typing this answer is about as techno as I am. Can anybody out there do this and put it on YouTube? THAT would get more play.