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The latest round of political bikini videos

Posted: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 12:38 PM by Will Femia

It feels a little ironic to post this in light of the brush fire I lit in the comments of the previous post but since the TV folks appear to be flogging the heck out of these videos I feel somewhat obliged to link out to the full versions.

The full Obama Girl/Giuliani Girl video is here:

Not only is it a clever tactic to take advantage of a slow news period and a chronically unsexy subject and turn it to their advantage, but they appear to know what they're doing online.  I never signed up for anything on the BarelyPolitical.com site but they traced the traffic I sent to them last time and put me on their mailing list to announce this new video.

The latest in the genre is this odd lesbian appeal to Hillary.

As we've observed of others of its kind, this is of pretty dubious assistance to the campaign.

But what else is worth noting is that contrary to their wiggling images, the protagonists involved in these projects are no push-overs.

Chris Matthews interviewed the the Hillary fan last night.

And in this one the makers of the Obama Girl video present a scathing rebuttal to Joy Behar essentially calling Obama Girl a hooker.

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