Friday Nite Videos -- March 9, 2012 (The Digital Apprentice)

1 Caught On Tape: Limbaugh's Seventy Sexist Smears
2 Heist: Who Stole the American Dream?
3 This is Not a Film
4 The Black Pimpernel
5 Game Change

[As the camera shrinks in size, becomes ever present and
hardly ever noticed, its impact just keeps growing. The
video record is our collective memory; our conscience; our
shield against deception, self-deception and amnesia; our
political as well as artistic resource of choice. What
Really Happened? Ask the camera. What Happens Where I Cannot
Go? Ask the camera. What Gets Says in an Unguarded Moment?
Ask the camera. What Happened When We Had to Look Away? The
camera answers. Of course, the camera's answers depend on
who bids it to speak. But today the ranks of the sorcerers
who know that incantation are growing, and so is the impact
of the work performed by their conjured legions of digital
apprentices. -- video moderator.]

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Caught On Tape: Limbaugh's Seventy Sexist Smears

It's now been five days since Rush Limbaugh incited a
national uproar with a multi-day barrage of poisonous and
sexually hostile invective against Sandra Fluke, the
Georgetown law student who recently testified before
Congress on the importance of mandated contraception
coverage in health insurance. Approximately 40 advertisers
have now abandoned the right-wing radio host, forcing him to
offer a begrudging apology which - while it does offer
contrition for the "insulting word choices" - maintains the
earlier tirade's underlying theme that Fluke is seeking to
mooch off the American taxpayers.

ThinkProgress has reviewed the footage from the first three
days between Limbaugh's initial attack and his apology, and
counted no less than seventy insults and smears which
Limbaugh hurled at Fluke. Below is the material that brought
Limbaugh to his current impasse, and for which Republican
leaders and the GOP candidates for president have criticized
him in only the most tepid of terms - assuming they
criticize him at all. Viewers can judge for themselves if
the apology, and the Republicans' response, is adequate to
Limbaugh's offense. Uploaded by ThinkProgressVideo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAF9s6n5cBY#!
Mar 6, 2012
5:07

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Heist: Who Stole the American Dream?

A new, groundbreaking feature documentary about the roots of
the American economic crisis, and the continuing assault on
working and middle class people in the United States.
"Heist" boldly reveals the crumbling structure of the U.S.
economy - the result of four decades of deregulation,
massive job outsourcing, and tax policies favoring mega-
corporations and wealthy elites.

Through expert testimony, investigative filmmaking and key
archival footage, "Heist" unfolds critical historical
background, beginning with the dismantling of FDR's New
Deal, uncovering the ideological influence of the infamous
Powell Memo and the Heritage Foundation's Mandate for
Leadership on government reform, and traces both Republican
and Democratic allegiance to big business.

http://www.heist-themovie.com/
2:22

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This is Not a Film

The official trailer for THIS IS NOT A FILM, by Iranian
filmmakers Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, to be
released in Australia on November 10. Jafar Panahi has been
sentenced to six years in prison and is under house arrest
as he waits for an answer to his appeal. His co-director
Mirtahmasb has also been arrested.

This is Not a Film was smuggled from Iran to the Cannes Film
Festival this year on a USB stick inside a cake. Panahi was
awarded the Carrosse d'Or in his absence.

Uploaded by sharmillfilmsAU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgZy00svH08
Oct 3, 2011
2:00

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The Black Pimpernel

Based on the life of Harald Edelstam, the Swedish ambassador
in 1973 Chile during the junta take-over. He fought to save
the lives of thousands of refugees during the Chilean
Military coup. Witnessing terrible atrocities and abuses of
power, Edelstam struggles for human rights, justice and
decency -- his actions often leading to threats on his own
life. [On NetFlix, look it up under the title El Clavel
Negro. -- video moderator.]

http://www.moviestrailer.org/the-black-pimpernel-movie-trailer.html

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HBO Films: Game Change

This new HBO film follows John McCain's 2008 presidential
campaign, from his selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin
as his running mate, to their ultimate defeat in the general
election. "Game Change" premieres on March 10th.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPhh7mch5zo
Jan 31, 2012
1:47

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