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Gwyneth Paltrow Not Exactly Helping Obama Combat Those 'Elitist' Charges
Posted by Mark Graham at 9:20 AM on August 6, 2008
Gwyneth Paltrow has worked really hard at ditching her snottier-than-thou attitude this year. Not only did she go to great lengths to sex up her image during the seemingly endless Iron Man press tour by donning a series of towering heels and flashing ample amounts of thigh, her admission that she's raising a pair of cross-dressing toddlers might even earn a nod of approval from the Lou Reed and David Johansen's of the world. But all of the inroads she's built look like they could come crashing down, thanks to her appearance in a hoity-toity political ad airing overseas now.
Gwyneth Paltrow has worked really hard at ditching her snottier-than-thou attitude this year. Not only did she go to great lengths to sex up her image during the seemingly endless Iron Man press tour by donning a series of
After crushing poor Scarlett Johansson's double-D sized heart after publicly imploding their burgeoning email relationship, Barack Obama has been battling charges of elitism from the right-wing media and fending off attacks from John McCain that he's just another Valtrex popping celebutard. While recruiting Gwyneth Paltrow to appear in a special "Vote Abroad" campaign might help with the latter attack, it certainly doesn't help him with the former.
And as for Gwyneth? We're not sure what it is about you that we're supposed to identify with as being All-American these days. You live abroad (meaning, you're not just there temporarily for a job). You're married to a mopey musician (who was born, raised and currently abides in England). You're raising your kids to be British. You won an Oscar ... for playing a Brit. Forgive us if we're finding it difficult to find the ties between you and baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and Chevrolet. Except, of course, for the fact that you named your kid Apple.
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Dimo
Posted 10:47 AM 6/8/08
I'll be voting in a bank/insurance building in beautiful, and picturesque, Studio City. See Gwyneth, I can be a snob too.
Dimo
Huge Tracts of Land
Posted 10:42 AM 6/8/08
**gratuitous "I hate the wife of Chris Martin" comment here**
Huge Tracts of Land
Breadbowl
Posted 10:22 AM 6/8/08
Basically, the ad addresses those too fucking stupid to know how to vote. Do we really want them voting?
Breadbowl
kookla
Posted 10:00 AM 6/8/08
I think this would be more effective if you had Becks and Posh as George and Martha Washington crossing the Delaware, while Simon Cowell in an Uncle Sam costume juggles bowling pins, as Elton John plays the Star Spangled Banner.
kookla
WGARefugee
Posted 9:51 AM 6/8/08
I can't imagine a less effective media buy than using broadcast television to target expats who are scattered all over the world. I also can't imagine a PSA director for a station outside of US territories running an ad like this gratis. I can imagine this as a social media campaign on the internets. Otherwise something doesn't add up.
WGARefugee
OldTowneTavern
Posted 9:49 AM 6/8/08
Hoity Toity? I missed the part where she asked for the Grey Poupon.
OldTowneTavern
Shumina
Posted 9:46 AM 6/8/08
I didn't hear it, but uh, yeah...let's let each person have a hair stylist next time, k? It's like she goes out of her way to look like an ass among the "common folk."
Shumina
Xylo
Posted 9:34 AM 6/8/08
Ah, the School of Epilepsy editing style.
In order to stand out(I guess), Paltrow pronounces "London" with three syllables.
Xylo
Passwordforgetter
Posted 11:41 AM 6/8/08
Uh, it's not really a PSA at all.
@Breadbowl: Hello? It was an ad for Democrats....
Passwordforgetter
gkanapathy
Posted 11:56 AM 6/8/08
It needed to end after 30 seconds.
gkanapathy
HelloBastards
Posted 2:44 PM 6/8/08
Thanks to the wonderful internets, it could also be a successful campaign for masturbation, if you swapped out all that voting nonsense.
"You can't let this moment slip away."
"Just go and masturbate."
"Where on earth will you masturbate?"
"Go to MasturbateAbroad.org."
HelloBastards
yourfatherschevrolet
Posted 10:14 AM 6/8/08
was Gwynnie falling asleep when she did this shoot or was she speaking softly and batting her eyes because the director told her that's how Americans look and sound when they talk?
yourfatherschevrolet
KeithAliquippa
Posted 10:08 AM 6/8/08
hey Gwyneth because of your economic situation you were able to sit out the Bush years in London, you should get a half vote, at most. but personally as a dual UK/US citizen, who has chosen to live away from their country of birth for close to half their life, I always figured that from a moral standpoint I shouldn't have a say in how a country I don't live in is governed.
KeithAliquippa
Alexler
Posted 9:35 AM 6/8/08
Well if Gwyneth and eleven normal ugly people say so, then by all means.
Alexler
OnAHeartbeatGlide
Posted 6:55 AM 7/8/08
Ah, so Republicans abroad shouldn't vote? Gotcha.
OnAHeartbeatGlide