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This is a catchy sentence designed to make you read the following article. It will be followed by something slightly off-putting, like "Want to watch a video that features a special-needs child with a trendy, topical disease?" No need to be offended, though, for this next sentence explains the off-putting remark, and that special-needs child is one of the stereotypical movie characters featured in A Trailer for Every Academy Award-Winning Movie Ever Made - a Cracked.com video produced by the comedy duo Britanick...
...Next comes the paragraph full of necessary background information: Britanick consists of Brian McElhaney and Nick Kocher, two NYU graduates "wasting their degrees" by making funny videos and posting them online. You'll learn that they're from Atlanta, that they majored in film and drama and that they have been working together since 2004, when Kocher helped McElhaney with his freshman-year film project. A Trailer for Every Academy Award-Winning Movie Ever Made is their latest, and most successful, endeavor. Britanick earned $1,000 for the skit, which Kocher says they spent mostly on food...
...love the Oscars, but they do have a specific type of film they pick," says Kocher, in a succinct quote that I have provided for your benefit - and to help me transition into this next paragraph, in which I talk about the video's cultural relevance (the Oscars). Then I'll point out that the trailer's formulaic script, in which the characters satirize the genre by describing themselves in relation to the film, has been done before. I'll provide a few examples, such as British broadcaster Charlie Booker's "How to Report the News" segment and The Onion...
...left him exposed on both his left and his right in a 2010 political environment that has turned decidedly toxic for incumbents. This is despite the fact that the Democratic establishment has locked arms around its 80-year-old convert. After Specter became a Democrat, he spent the next few months wooing party officials in all 67 Pennsylvania counties and reminding them of all the federal dollars he had brought home over the years. It paid off. The state Democratic committee endorsed him in February with an overwhelming 229-72 vote. "I have been involved in many, many elections...
...June 2003, just before the White House was transfixed by the Wilsons, Bush was told by the CIA that a classic insurgency was under way in Iraq. His Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, refused to acknowledge that. The war was criminally mismanaged for the next four years, until Rumsfeld was fired and David Petraeus was sent to Iraq to clean up the mess. Along the way, the situation in Afghanistan was criminally neglected as well. This remains an astonishing record of incompetence. Rove doesn't mention it at all. (See pictures of Karl Rove and George W. Bush...