Monday, March 3, 2008

Jack Nicholson embarrasses himself and Hillary

A couple weeks ago, a viral video appeared on the Internet. It featured Will.I.Am and a number of his friends turning the words of Barack Obama into a song. The word were inspirational, the video was emotional, and the video touched many people.

Jack Nicholson thought he'd try his hand at this viral video thing that the kids are doing, and so the video below is his idea of an endorsement for Hillary. I find this clip embarrassing to both him and to Hillary.

Where Will.I.Am drew inspiration from Obama's words, Jack pulls random unrelated clips from the scripts of movies in which he's acted. Where Will.I.Am featured Obama, Jack apparently found no worthy reason to feature Hillary herself. And perhaps most tellingly, where Will.I.Am summed up his video with the motivational words "Yes we can," Jack's idea of an endorsement is "There's nothing on this earth sexier, believe me gentlemen, than a woman you have to salute in the morning."

If this is the kind of inspiration that Hillary generates, she's even more doomed than I thought. And Jack Nicholson didn't do himself any favors--instead of the hip, mature, funny person he has come to portray in films, he instead looks like a clueless, 70-year-old man embarrassingly missing the mark with an unfunny and inappropriate video.

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