Tone-Deaf Again?
By Mitch Berg
You’d think that after “Crackerquiddick”, the Obama campaign would learn to tread lightly around the beliefs of most of us bitter, gun-totin’ Jesus freaks in the midwest.
Well…
Erick Erickson over at RedState tells us all of an anti-Christian video recently introduced with great frivolity by Internet philosopher and Obama technology advisor Larry Lessig. The video introduced at a Google Author series seminar shows Jesus singing the Gloria Gaynor tune “I Will Survive” in a very effeminate, theatrical way. As the song ramps up, Jesus throws off his robe and strips down to a diaper-like covering, then he sashays through a modern city until he gets hit by a bus in an intersection.
Larry who?
Again, as Erickson points out, “Barack Obama’s campaign has regularly cited Lessig as a key supporter on technology issues (see here too) and made sure Lessig was quoted when listing Obama’s technology endorsers.”
Hm.
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Lessig is quite well known in the Free Software, EFF, and copyright reform movements on the Net. It’s disappointing to see him in that video. He briefly and rather publicly contemplated a run for Congress in the Silicon Valley area earlier this year.