An in-depth look at the Democratic and Republican national conventions held during the 2008 U.S. Presidential election y | dG1fdnV0MHplYzcwZFU
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00:00 Politics, for better or worse, is tied to the television camera.
00:03 Everybody has to put on somehow a good image,
00:07 whether it's a real image or not.
00:09 CNN will have just as many Hollywood celebrities on as they do political figures.
00:16 They've had to become actors themselves.
00:19 They have to play the media.
00:20 Now the target is ratings.
00:22 It is simply ratings.
00:26 A lot of people think that celebrity advocacy is just another way of getting your name in the papers.
00:30 That's the last thing in the world that I'm here for.
00:32 Let's stand together to elect Barack Obama president of the United States of America.
00:41 It's all theater.
00:46 We are about this far away from the political version of Miss America.
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