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To: Brumar89 who wrote (485875)	5/5/2012 9:49:27 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	7 Recommendations Respond to of 793955

I think Yuval Levin at NRO had the best review of The Life of Julia. He pointed out how parody-worthy it is, and aimed at the very audience of young hipsters that would be most skilled at creating the parody: It’s not just that each of its elements can be easily parodied, it’s that every single one of them is a perfectly common feature of contemporary satire, and the whole thing — right down to the fact that it is a web slideshow that can be very easily aped by countless clever and tech-savvy smart-alecks sitting underemployed in front of computers right now — feels like a joke and yet isn’t. It’s going to be very very difficult for the purveyors of knowing sarcasm in the hipster-industrial complex to resist this provocation, even though openly mocking Barack Obama will feel uneasy and unnatural at first. And that’s what could make this a genuine misstep for the Obama campaign: Obama’s 2008 campaign was very careful to keep itself on the side of the culture of cool, so that the agents of that culture would turn their guns against John McCain but mostly lay off Obama, even as he offered up embarrassingly vapid nonsense about turning back the oceans. If they begin to make the culture of cool uneasy about Obama, and increasingly comfortable treating him (as it is inclined to treat everyone) as a self-important windbag, they could do serious damage to his standing with precisely the intended audience of the Life of Julia: young liberals, who must turn out in uncharacteristically large numbers if Obama is to have a decent chance of re- election. If those young liberals come to see the president not as a cool modern idealist in on the joke but as a bloviating panderer who buys his own shtick, he’s in big trouble. If you puncture Obama’s balloon, there is not much left of him, and he seems to be running the risk of puncturing that balloon himself. nationalreview.com

To: Brumar89 who wrote (485875)	5/5/2012 10:38:48 PM
From: Alan Smithee	2 Recommendations Respond to of 793955

I've dipped my toe into the Twitterverse. #Julia is getting a huge amount of negative tweets... some quite funny.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (485875)	5/6/2012 12:59:51 AM
From: FJB	9 Recommendations Respond to of 793955

REPORT: OBAMA FANS PAPERED WITH SHERROD BROWN RESTRAINING ORDER by BREITBART NEWS 2 hours ago Yesterday, Breitbart News reported on the checkered past of Sherrod Brown, the Ohio Senator with whom Barack Obama launched his reelection campaign earlier today. Included in Breitbart editor Ben Shapiro's report was a restraining order against Brown filed by his ex-wife Larke and granted by the court. During divorce filings, Larke Brown alleged abuse by then Ohio Secretary of State Brown.Today, Brown and Obama campaigned together at Ohio State University's Schottenstein Center. According to sources close to Breitbart News, conservative activists papered cars outside the arena with excerpts of the aforementioned restraining order as well as yesterday's Breitbart News report. Larke Brown's motion asked the court to stop Sherrod from “harassing, including telephone harassment, annoying, interfering with or doing bodily harm to this Plaintiff at her residence or elsewhere.” Shapiro drew attention to the irony of Obama choosing to launch his campaign with Brown in the midst of the alleged "War on Women." In Ohio, #BreitbartIsHere: