skippy the bush kangaroo

Friday, September 05, 2008

gop luvs the troops, just not enough to actually show a military funeral

the "soldiers" seen in tuesday nite's rnc video about god & country were really actors. cbs (via c&l):

but cbs news found that the footage of the ‘funeral’ and soldiers is what is called ‘stock’ footage. the soldiers were actors and the funeral scene was from a one-day film shoot, produced in june. no real soldiers were used during production.

the footage, sold by stock-film house getty images was produced by a commercial filmmaker in chicago. both getty and the production company, mr. big films, confirmed that the footage was shot on spec and sold to the republican national committee.

one of the actors, perry denton of chicago, ill. also confirmed that he was hired on a day-rate as an actor for the shoot and told cbs news he was surprised to learn the footage was shown at the convention...

after a web search of videos played at the democratic national convention last week, cbs news found no obvious use of stock footage.

the rnc did not respond to cbs news’ request for a comment.
that's a surprise.
posted by skippy at 12:12 PM |

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