UPDATE: The deadline for submissions was extended until Wednesday after numerous requests. You'v got plenty of time to get your submission in!
Okay, by now I am sure you have seen John Lithgow's performance of Newt Gingrich's epic press release (you can see the text below the fold, I don't throw around the word "epic" lightly).
Progressive Congress wants to see your rendition! The deadline for submissions in Monday, 11:59pm, which is a little less than 34 hours from now. Not only do you get to have a lot of fun, but you have a chance at winning an iPad2 and meeting Congressman Raul Grijalva, the Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. I will be one of the judges, along with David Waldman, Darcy Burner, and Beth Becker. We are seriously looking forward to watching the submissions, but here's the thing, we need yours!
More details below the fold...
From the contest page:
Show us what you can do! Shoot up to 3 minutes of video — of you, your friends, your pets — reading this press release as dramatically and creatively as possible.
Share your video by posting to your YouTube Account (please include the hashtag #bignewt in the video title, and add bignewt as a tag on YouTube.) Once your video is online, visit our submission page.
All entries must be received by Midnight, Monday June 6.
And the press release:
"The literati sent out their minions to do their bidding. Washington cannot tolerate threats from outsiders who might disrupt their comfortable world. The firefight started when the cowardly sensed weakness. They fired timidly at first, then the sheep not wanting to be dropped from the establishment’s cocktail party invite list unloaded their entire clip, firing without taking aim their distortions and falsehoods. Now they are left exposed by their bylines and handles. But surely they had killed him off. This is the way it always worked. A lesser person could not have survived the first few minutes of the onslaught. But out of the billowing smoke and dust of tweets and trivia emerged Gingrich, once again ready to lead those who won’t be intimated by the political elite and are ready to take on the challenges America faces."
Original Text: Gingrich Campaign Press, May 16, 2011
So... what are you waiting for? Get on YouTube and let's see what you've got!