I had two very different reactions to this story:
A tiny little movie making fun of Al Gore, supposedly made by an amateur filmmaker, recently appeared on the popular Web site YouTube.com.At first blush, the spoof seemed like a scrappy little homemade film poking fun at Gore and his anti-global warming crusade.In the movie, Gore is seen boring an army of penguins with his lecture and blaming global warming for everything, including Lindsay Lohan’s thinness.But when the Wall Street Journal tried to find the guy who posted the film “Al Gore’s Penguin Army” – listed on YouTube as a 29-year-old – they found the movie didn’t come from an amateur working out of his basement.The film actually came from a slick Republican public relations firm called DCI, which just happens to have oil giant Exxon as a client.
ABC News: Al Gore YouTube Spoof Not So Amateurish
My first reaction was how sleasy, but my second was how funny and clever. I think all of those apply.
