Entertaining enough I guess, but I’m trying to figure out how exactly they see Paul. First he was Mack Brown, then he turned into Polly the Parrot, then the Leprechaun, then a combination of all three. Maybe they should just stick to rapping and not attempt actual impressions. It seems like the took lessons from the best…which isn’t so great.
Ultimately stuff like this really just disappoints me because for all it’s cleverness and entertainment value, it really does quite little to enlighten the uneducated viewer. I guarantee anyone who didn’t start into that knowing what’s what, came out more confused than when he went in. I mean, publicity is nice, but if someone doesn’t know anything about Paul, he largely comes off as a kook…especially when you spar him off with zeitgeist nonsense and make him talk like Warwick Davis. And with the way they misrepresented Paul being all about a gold standard, I actually wonder if they didn’t do that ridiculous Leprecaun accent on purpose. I wouldn’t have been surprised if they came right out and had him say something about his “pot o’ gold”.
And by the epilogue, you’d think they would at least try to pick a side and sum things up and reach some kind of conclusion. But the video doesn’t even do that. After sufficiently confusing the viewer and getting him to think of Ron Paul as on the same level with the Venus Project, the MC leaves us with “our real economy is something much broader, its GDP measures not by out ability to horde but our capacity to re-learn and earn our place in nature’s order and thus remain on this planet arc, our Pandora.”
Wow. It would have been a lot simpler to just say “we need to stop fighting with each other and learn to compromise so we can start living in harmony with our fragile planet, and we need to quit fooling around and roll up our sleeves and get to work.”
Thanks for nothing, rap guy.
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