John Fitzgerald Keitel
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John Fitzgerald Keitel is a filmmaker and the creator of thinkfreetv.com, a video website taking on the challenges facing all of us by telling the stories of real people confronting them every day. His work has screened in film festivals throughout the world, aired on major cable networks, and can now be seen at thinkfreetv.com, where new webisodes of his The Man from Lincoln Web series are posted weekly.

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The Man from Lincoln, Part 5: State Fair! (Or, Fred Karger vs. Rick Santorum)

0 Comments | Posted March 16, 2012 | 4:11 PM

This is the fifth installment in a series of stories about my experience on the campaign trail with Fred Karger, an openly gay candidate for the Republican presidential nomination.

Two words sum up my disappointment with Fred Karger's campaign for President of the United States: Rick Santorum. It is Rick...

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The Man from Lincoln, Part 4: A New Chapter in American History Begins Today

2 Comments | Posted February 25, 2012 | 12:10 AM

This is the fourth installment in a series of stories about my experience on the campaign trail with Fred Karger, an openly gay candidate for the Republican presidential nomination.

The first Mormon girl I ever met, I married. Her name was "Janet," and we were summer camp counselors together in...

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Field of Dreams: Making Farmers Field Work for the People of Los Angeles

0 Comments | Posted February 22, 2012 | 11:15 AM

Let me be up front, I want Farmers Field. I want it where they want it and how they want it. I want season tickets, too.

Putting aside for the moment the dim LA stereotypes about suburban sprawl and urban alienation, the closest I ever get to feeling the civic...

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The Man from Lincoln, Part 3: Saving the Boom

0 Comments | Posted February 17, 2012 | 5:41 PM

This is the third installment in a series of stories about my experience on the campaign trail with Fred Karger, an openly gay candidate for the Republican presidential nomination.

This time, when I swung off the 405 onto Laguna Canyon Road, the strawberry fields were long gone, replaced by rows...

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The Man from Lincoln, Part 2: Fred Who?

0 Comments | Posted February 6, 2012 | 3:56 PM

This is the second installment in a series of stories about my experience on the campaign trail with Fred Karger, an openly gay candidate for the Republican presidential nomination.

Fred Karger and I met during my Laguna years. He had grown up in the Chicago suburb next to mine, and...

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The Man from Lincoln, Part 1: You Gotta Give 'Em Hope

0 Comments | Posted January 31, 2012 | 2:21 PM

This is the first installment in a series of stories about the filmmaker's experience on the campaign trail with Fred Karger, an openly gay candidate for the Republican presidential nomination.

The first time I heard it, I knew it didn't sound right, but it didn't sink in until a few...

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