THE REAL MCCAIN
OVER A MILLION VIEWS! -- The videos in The Real McCain series have been viewed 1.1 million times and thousands of people continue to see them and learn more about McCain every day! Thank you for watching the videos and passing them on to your friends and family.
Tech President post about One Million McCain views
Our McCain videos are at the top of the list when you type in McCain on YouTube. We're also helping to set the media narrative. A recent David Brooks Op-Ed in the New York Times was entitled The Real McCain! Clearly Brooks was familiar with Brave New Films' campaign.
Over the past two weeks we have released two more videos in The Real McCain series. Check them out if you haven't had a chance and pass them to friends and enemies.
John McCain Sings! - http://mccainsings Last week we released McCain Off-Key on Trillion Dollar War. This is a guy who would keep us in Iraq for a hundred years and would perhaps not shy away from a war with Iran. The video has been viewed over 68,000 times and has been covered by Daily Kos, Raw Story, Huffington Post, American Prospect, Alternet, FireDogLake, and Tech President.John McCain's Lobbyist Friends - http://therealmccain.com/ We have been concerned about McCain's integrity for the past year. So, after the New York Times published an article on McCain's lobbyist ties, our Issues '08 team went to work and within 24 hours, we released, John McCain's Lobbyist Friends. We want this video to get people thinking about McCain's lobbyist ties and to challenge his self-created image of being a straight-shooter. So far it has been viewed over 132,000 times and was featured on My DD, ThinkProgress, Alternet and Huffington Post among others.
SETTING THE MEDIA NARRATIVE
Just as with our documentary films, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price and Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism, our short videos are affecting the media narrative. In the two weeks following the release of our War on Greed campaign the following happened:
- Senator John Edwards spoke about corporate greed in interviews, at rallies and in his speech following the Iowa caucus.
- Senator Barack Obama addressed corporate greed and specifically the salary figures of private equity tycoons which we laid out in our first War on Greed video. In a T.V. commercial, Obama said, "You've got CEOs who are making more in 10 minutes than ordinary workers are making in a year"
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS
Meet Brave New Films' New Team Member - Our team is continuing to grow! Two weeks ago, Dallas Dunn joined Brave New Films. Dallas is originally from Phoenix, AZ. She studied art history at the University of Arizona and has been working for the last couple years in T.V. production and on major US music tours. Dallas is working on the Issues '08 team with Jason and Philip and did research for John McCain's Lobbyist Friends and McCain Off-Key on Trillion Dollar War. Dallas is a great addition to our team and has been a big help in getting the McCain videos out so quickly.
NEW PARTNERSHIPS
Partnership with MTV - We are excited to announce a new partnership between MTV and Brave New Films! MTV thinks our videos would appeal to their young audience and we will now be putting our videos on ThinkMTV. Think is a multi-media community where young people, their friends and favorite celebrities can get informed, get heard and take action on the issues that matter to them most. Think also houses Choose or Lose, a program that engages youth in politics and encourages voting. Our videos will be reaching more youth and there will also be a blog function so that young people can take part in the action!
Because of your support we are going to keep going. Every day we get more requests from progressive organizations who want to use our videos or partner with us on campaigns. We are in a variety of meetings to use our videos, create bi-lingual versions and do major work with some partners in the Latino community. Stay tuned for some exciting announcements.
Thank you for all your support!
