How To Be A Semi-Informed Voter - by Adrian

The LCP gets a mention today at lapolitica.com in an article about Latino polticial videos online (apparently, there aren’t enough). You can read the entire fascinating article by Luis Clemens here, but below is the snippet mentioning the LCP’s work, along with a partial quote of a sentence I uttered:

“The single-most popular Latino political video online is a parody of the trailer for the movie ‘300.’ The 65 second long video clip amusingly makes the point that immigration from Mexico is unstoppable. It was produced by the Austin-based Latino Comedy Project whose artistic director, Adrian Villegas, says ‘we didn’t specifically push it in any way.’ And yet, the video has been viewed more than one million times in three months on YouTube alone.”

Interesting. I thought “the single-most popular Latino political video online” was the exciting Hillary Clinton-Bill Richardson one-on-one debate “re-enactment” over at the website “8th Street Latinas”.

8th Street Latinas: For all your election update needs.

Their vigorous debate “re-enactment” was so riveting, I’ve watched it eleven times already (as one must, to divine policy distinctions). However, there are some staging inaccuracies which I can’t quite explain. For example, I don’t recall Hillary being a long-haired brunette who repeatedly screams “Papi!” in a near-unintelligible Honduran accent. Nor has Bill Richardson ever been, to my recollection, thin (although he has been sweaty).

*WARNING: SHAMELESSLY LOWBROW CAPTION HUMOR AHEAD!!!*

in 3…2…1…

“Hilaria” Vs. “Guillermo”: Master Debaters Pumping Democracy Into The Body Politic.

*BOO-YAH!*

Anyway…

They’re calling their election coverage “Insertion ‘08″. I don’t get it. And I don’t understand why all their debate match-ups have to feature Hillary in some way either. She may be the front-runner, but other candidates deserve to be heard too. Our democracy thrives on the marketplace of ideas. Do we really need another debate segment featuring Hillary and a physically abusive Dennis Kucinich midget lookalike who requires the use of a foot stool to get the job done? “Nay,” I say. Nay.

I know the presidential election still awaits, as it always does, on that fateful Wednesday in February, but…

Should I consider getting my political news elsewhere?