CMC Congress Course: Demonsheep Update

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I shall post videos, graphs, news stories, and other material there. We shall use some of this material in class, and you may review the rest at your convenience. You will all receive invitations to post to the blog. (Please let me know if you do not get such an invitation.) I encourage you to use the blog in these ways:

To post questions or comments about the readings before we discuss them in class;
To follow up on class discussions with additional comments or questions.
To post relevant news items or videos.

There are only two major limitations: no coarse language, and no derogatory comments about people at the Claremont Colleges.

Friday, February 5, 2010

Demonsheep Update

From the San Jose Mercury News:

If all press is good press, Carly Fiorina's bizarre campaign video depicting her opponent as a red-eyed demon sheep is a blockbuster hit.

If widespread mockery matters, the joke may be on Fiorina.

Whatever the case, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO's 31/2-minute Web video attacking Tom Campbell in the Republican Senate primary has gone viral, drawing more than 191,949 views on YouTube, rising to the top of Twitter topics and spurring commentary on dozens of political news sites

The Demonsheep ad has inspired yet another YouTube remix of Der Untergang: