Morgan Freeman narrates political ad (for B.J. Lawson, R, NC-4)

[tpfkaw]

How is this not here already?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFWxtUkHyXg



And he did it for one of the best congressional candidates this year.  Morgan Freeman = huge FF.

[Phony Moderate]

He endorsed Obama in 2008, ftr.

[Frink]

He endorsed Obama in 2008, ftr.

That makes him an anti freedom fascist!

[Dgov]

He endorsed Obama in 2008, ftr.

Which means we might have just won a high-profile convert.

[Oakvale]

http://www.wisn.com/r/25558766/detail.html

It's not Morgan Freeman on the ad, which goes to show that some rudimentary fact-checking might be worth your while.

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[Sewer]

derp

[SvenssonRS]

He endorsed Obama in 2008, ftr.

That makes him an anti freedom fascist!

Gotta love the benevolent Democrats and their invariably correct assumptions about what libertarians say.

[Frink]

He endorsed Obama in 2008, ftr.

That makes him an anti freedom fascist!

Gotta love the benevolent Democrats and their invariably correct assumptions about what libertarians say.

I was simply getting it in before Libertas stole my thunder by writing the exact same sentence (he'd use different words though).

[Dgov]

http://www.wisn.com/r/25558766/detail.html

It's not Morgan Freeman on the ad, which goes to show that some rudimentary fact-checking might be worth your while.

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AWWWWW . . .

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

unfortunately I don't think the script is all that great. it's a pretty generic anti-Dem ad, and with Lawson, I was hoping for better. the voice doesn't fit all that well - it would have been better used for a pro-Lawson piece, esp at this stage of the game.

[tpfkaw]

http://www.wisn.com/r/25558766/detail.html

It's not Morgan Freeman on the ad, which goes to show that some rudimentary fact-checking might be worth your while.

You must be logged in to read this quote.

Some rudimentary fact-checking might be worth your while.



Even more hilariously, the article you linked refers to an ad by another candidate in another race in Wisconsin.

[Sewer]

Even more hilariously, the article you linked refers to an ad by another candidate in another race in Oregon.

Oregon is Wisconsin??

[tpfkaw]

Even more hilariously, the article you linked refers to an ad by another candidate in another race in Oregon.

Oregon is Wisconsin??

Swing state, woodsy areas . . .

I don't know why I did that.  I thought "Wisconsin" and wrote "Oregon." :S

[Brandon H]

And I thought I read Freeman was a liberal somewhere.

[Oakvale]

http://www.wisn.com/r/25558766/detail.html

It's not Morgan Freeman on the ad, which goes to show that some rudimentary fact-checking might be worth your while.

You must be logged in to read this quote.

Some rudimentary fact-checking might be worth your while.



Even more hilariously, the article you linked refers to an ad by another candidate in another race in Wisconsin.

Good Lord, that is embarassing. Shows I could probably benefit from my own advice.

Apologies - a quick Google News search returned that result, and I guess I wasn't banking on there being more than one ad with a narrator who sounded like Morgan Freeman.

[minionofmidas]

He endorsed Obama in 2008, ftr.

That makes him an anti freedom fascist!

Gotta love the benevolent Democrats and their invariably correct assumptions about what libertarians say.

It's not exactly hard to second-guess you people.

[Oakvale]

*wipes egg off face*

Morgan Freeman denies doing ad for NC candidate.

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Retroactive win on my part.

[Smash255]

Ad is off youtube and off Lawson's site as well.

nice lie BJ

[Smash255]

http://www.wisn.com/r/25558766/detail.html

It's not Morgan Freeman on the ad, which goes to show that some rudimentary fact-checking might be worth your while.

You must be logged in to read this quote.

Some rudimentary fact-checking might be worth your while.



Even more hilariously, the article you linked refers to an ad by another candidate in another race in Wisconsin.

Oops.........

[tpfkaw]

Seems the Lawson campaign was conned - they had a contract from an LA advertising agency that often does celebrity commercials saying Freeman would do the ad.  Still, that's pretty embarrassing, and they should have asked themselves why Freeman would do a commercial for only $4500.

[nclib]

Fortunately, Price survived this whole ordeal and was able to win here relatively easily. Lawson always gets a lot of attention, but his positions aren't really that good for NC-4. For example, he wants to eliminate federal research funding...in the Research Triangle.