PRESENTING: The ‘Fourth Graders For Obama’ YouTube Channel

Here’s a little mid-week scare courtesy of the 4thgraders4obama YouTube Channel. (Don’t waste your time — I searched high and low and no luck finding the 4thgraders4bush YouTube Channel.) Yes, you read that right, an entire portal filled with nearly a dozen videos devoted to nine and ten year-olds singing, speaking and in general, getting awfully excited over a politician on the brink of having us all long for the good old days of Jimmy Carter. Here’s a taste:

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The programmer teacher is Ms. Clark (she makes a short appearance here), but there wasn’t anything that identified the actual school. In last week’s Elementary Epidemic you saw a mix of Obama-enthusiasm. Some of the videotaped students were reminiscent of POWs speaking against their will on camera as they blink a Morse code plea for help, others were truly excited — and it’s the excited ones that are most worrisome. They’re gone. Lost forever… Ms. Clark’s entire class is like that.

The 4thgraders4obama videos do give us a broader glimpse into the methodology at work in our nation’s classrooms. In a couple of the videos you’ll see the kids watching President Obama on television and the whole class is as giddy as though they were in line for Space Mountain. Other videos have the kids standing before the camera reading what sounds like love letters to the First Family. Public or private school — that makes no difference. You don’t do this to young minds. There’s a wide berth between infusing your children with values and this. (more…)

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Tags: Obama, private school, public school, school, school children
Posted Nov 11th 2009 at 5:09 am in Culture, Featured Story, Politics | 25965471 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/11/11/the-fourth-graders-for-obama-youtube-channel/PRESENTING%3A+The+%27Fourth+Graders+For+Obama%27+YouTube+Channel2009-11-11+13%3A09%3A50John+Nolte

Balloon Boy: The Right of Every American To Be a TV Star

People have it all wrong about Richard Heene.  He’s not the perpetrator of a poorly-executed hoax, but a victim, a victim of America’s callous disregard for those who suffer from the silent plague that is Media Absence Disorder (MAD).

Sadly, the dead white males who imposed the Constitution on America enumerated only negative rights that limit the power of the government over its citizens.  But if you squint your eyes and look beyond obstacles like the plain text, lurking in there somewhere behind the penumbras and emanations is the positive right of every American to be a TV star.  Those with MAD are not cretins to be shunned but civil rights visionaries at the edge of a new frontier of governmental largess and probably a lot of profitable litigation.

It’s obvious that American society has failed the Heene family.  After he and his brood’s triumphant appearances on Wife Swap, Heene was left media-deficient and was forced to feed his addiction with crude YouTube videos.  In one, he speculated that Hilary Clinton is a shape-shifting space reptile, which would be totally cool if true.  In another, he claimed that he spoke to aliens at a local fast food restaurant, which is actually pretty typical, at least at Southern California fast food joints.

This sad state of affairs was a direct result of the deep, black emptiness in Heene’s life that could never be filled by superficial things like work, religion or family.  Like all MAD-men, he craves, needs, must have the validation that only comes from having his mug flashing across America’s television screens.  He not only wants his MTV, he has to have it.  And we owe it to him. (more…)

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Tags: Aliens, balloon boy, Colorado, constitution, Media Absence Disorder
Posted Oct 22nd 2009 at 6:55 am in Culture, Politics, Television | 24957836 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/kschlichter/2009/10/22/balloon-boy-the-right-of-every-american-to-be-a-tv-star/Balloon+Boy%3A+The+Right+of+Every+American+To+Be+a+TV+Star2009-10-22+13%3A55%3A09Kurt+Schlichter

ANOTHER SHOCK VIDEO: Third-Graders Sing Praises to Obama

“On November 4th 2008, we held a mock presidential election in my third grade classroom. Students spoke their minds about the candidates, and I facilitated making sure all sides were heard. Secret ballots were cast, and Barack Obama won getting 18 out of 20 votes. John McCain and Cynthia McKinney split the remainder. Later that night of course history was made.” — misterbee

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The video, lyrics and an explanation of how the video came to be were posted on YouTube, September 7th, 2009, by user misterbee2009:

The Obama Song (”Proud American”)
By Mr. B and the students of Room 8
February 2009

Obama is the President!
First African America in history
44th president of the United States
The ground has shifted
The world has changed! (more…)

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Tags: "The Obama Song", misterbee, Mr. B, school kids, Youtube
Posted Sep 25th 2009 at 11:31 am in Culture, Featured Story, Politics | 235694120 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/09/25/another-shocking-video-third-graders-sing-praises-to-obama/ANOTHER+SHOCK+VIDEO%3A+Third-Graders+Sing+Praises+to+Obama2009-09-25+18%3A31%3A01Big+Hollywood

Planting the Seeds: The Politicized Art Behind the ACORN Plan

Everything you needed to know about the unorthodox roll out of the now-notorious ACORN sting videos was hidden in plain sight in my Sept. 7 column, “Katie Couric, Look in the Mirror.” ACORN was not the only target of those videos; so were Katie, Brian, Charlie and every other mainstream media pooh-bah.

They were not going to report this blockbuster unless they were forced to. And they were. What’s more, it ain’t over yet. Not every hint I dropped in that piece about what was to come has played itself out yet.Stay tuned.

When filmmaker and provocateur James O’Keefe came to my office to show me the video of him and his friend, Hannah Giles, going to the Baltimore offices of ACORN – the nation’s foremost “community organizers” – dressed as a pimp and a prostitute and asking for – and getting – help for various illegal activities, he sought my advice. In the past, Mr. O’Keefe created brilliant social satire that rocked his college campus and even made its way on to the talk-radio and cable-news shows, but the magnitude of his latest adventure had the potential to rock the political establishment.

I was awed by Mr. O’Keefe’s guts and amazed by the footage, but explained that the mainstream media would try to kill this important and illuminating expose about a corrupt and criminal political racket, and that the well-funded political left would go into “war room” mode, with 25-year-old Mr. O’Keefe and 20-year-old cohort Miss Giles in the cross hairs. I felt I had a moral obligation to protect these young muckrakers from the left and from the media, and to devise a strategy that would force the media’s hand.  (more…)

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Tags: abc, ACORN, acorn scandal, Bertha Lewis, Brian Williams
Posted Sep 20th 2009 at 6:40 pm in Featured Story, Media Criticism, News, Politics | 230558No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/abreitbart/2009/09/20/planting-the-seeds-the-politicized-art-behind-the-acorn-plan/Planting+the+Seeds%3A+The+Politicized+Art+Behind+the+ACORN+Plan2009-09-21+01%3A40%3A55Andrew+Breitbart

It’s Gut Check Time, Ms. Couric

This week’s Washington Times column:

Now that White House “Green Jobs Czar” Van Jones has resigned, what’s next?

Inevitably, the American mainstream media – ABC, NBC, CBS, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, et al – must be held to account for sitting on the sidelines as this major story kept building without them, went viral on YouTube, and then became so large that a key appointee of President Obama was forced to step down.

But with their decision to ignore the Jones story, they may have actually done Mr. Obama far more harm than good: Who vetted this guy? How did he get past the FBI? What did he say, and how did he answer the infamous seven-page questionnaire that all Obama appointees were required to fill out? Inquiring Freedom of Information Act minds want to know.

For most people in this country, the resignation was the first they had heard of Van Jones. For this sin of journalistic omission, there’s institutional media blame. Bias is too tame a word for the utter shamelessness on display: Only Republican scandals – real and imagined – matter. (more…)

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Tags: 9/11 Truthers, abc, cbs, community organizers, Czars
Posted Sep 6th 2009 at 6:08 pm in Featured Story, Media Criticism, News, Politics | 218914230 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/abreitbart/2009/09/06/couric-should-look-in-mirror/It%27s+Gut+Check+Time%2C+Ms.+Couric2009-09-07+01%3A08%3A36Andrew+Breitbart

Beck Derangement Syndrome

Now that Bush is out of office and Palin has become a Tweeter, the left has been searching for other straw men to hang in effigy. Lately, Fox News’ Glenn Beck is filling the bill. He has been ever since he switched to Fox in January and became a major player there.

On Wednesday he attracted three million viewers with guests like Rush Limbaugh and Karl Rove.

In fact, the more the left hates Beck, the more popular he becomes.

A race-based pressure group called “ColorOfChange” has been running a boycott against Beck for the last few weeks because he said he thinks President Obama may be racist against white people. And, because he dared to express an opinion they don’t agree with, ColorOfChange has been trying to get every advertiser on the show to pull their ads. Apparently they don’t believe in free speech or opinions that run contrary to their agenda.

But Beck’s ratings are soaring ever since the boycott started. And it hasn’t really affected Fox’s revenues as the advertisers who pulled their ads just moved them to other shows. The problem with boycotts is they end up promoting the thing they try to destroy. Movies that probably would have failed before they were “banned in Boston” often make a profit. TV shows that get boycotted often go on to become hits — people want to see what the fuss is about. And if the show is entertaining, they attract steady viewers. (more…)

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Tags: boycott, color of change, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Karl Rove
Posted Aug 28th 2009 at 3:08 pm in Politics | 212806191 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jhudnall/2009/08/28/beck-derangement-syndrome/Beck+Derangement+Syndrome2009-08-28+22%3A08%3A37James+Hudnall

EXCLUSIVE: DeVore and Free Speech Win Round One Vs. Don Henley

On April 1, California State Assemblyman Chuck DeVore’s campaign for U.S. Senate against Barbara Boxer released the YouTube, “After the Hope of November is Gone,” a parody video based on Don Henley’s “The Boys of Summer.” The video criticized President Obama and mocked celebs like Henley who have been made “crazy” with desire over the President. 

It took just six days for Henley to file a copyright claim under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and YouTube immediately took the video down.  

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Refusing to be intimidated, DeVore fired back with a DMCA counter-notification and on April 14th created another YouTube parody aimed at Boxer’s support for cap-and-trade. ”All She Wants to do is Tax” is based Henley’s “All She Wants to do is Dance” and immediately began racking up 10,000 views a day.

Though he doesn’t hold the rights to ”Dance,” Henley filed a federal suit against DeVore and encouraged the true copyright holder to file a copyright infringement complaint with YouTube.  Within a few days YouTube took DeVore’s second video down. Then DeVore caught Henley off guard and fought back with a counter-suit claiming Henley was infringing on his First Amendment right to political parody.   (more…)

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Tags: "All she wants to do is tax", boxer, copyright, DeVore, Henley
Posted Aug 7th 2009 at 6:44 am in Entertainment, Law | 20092280 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/08/07/exclusive-devore-and-free-speech-win-round-one-vs-don-henley/EXCLUSIVE%3A+DeVore+and+Free+Speech+Win+Round+One+Vs.+Don+Henley2009-08-07+13%3A44%3A20Big+Hollywood

Fifteen Minutes of H8: The Rise and Fall of Perez Hilton

This week’s Washington Times column:

Mario Lavandeira, the mean-spirited impresario behind the celebrity-obsessed mega-Web site PerezHilton.com, was left scratching his pink-tinged pompadour last week, wondering aloud in a campy cry-baby YouTube classic why, after being physically assaulted in public, he is now universally scorned and widely considered the villain of an incident that left him appropriately “black eyed.”

Aside from the basic rules of karma, here’s why: The calculus of political correctness is like roshambo, the “rock-paper-scissors” game. Different identity groups hold specific levels of power over others when their battles play out in the media. To wit: Black beats white. Gay beats white. Black beats gay.

Don’t ask why. It just is.

For those not paying attention to this tawdry tale, Mr. Lavandeira, aka Perez Hilton and the self-proclaimed “Queen of All Media,” referred to Will.I.Am, the black frontman of the platinum-selling Black Eyed Peas, by an anti-gay slur at an after-party of the MuchMusic Awards in Canada.

This interlude was born of the L.A.-based hip hop trio’s displeasure over critical comments about their recent album on the Perez Hilton Web site. The affair later culminated in the band’s black manager, Polo Molina, reportedly slugging Mr. Lavandeira after an evening of silly ego- skirmishes between the two parties. (more…)

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Tags: Black Eyed Peas, Canada, Carrie Prejean, Mario Lavandeira, MuchMusic Awards
Posted Jun 28th 2009 at 6:08 pm in Featured Story, News | 1732225 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/abreitbart/2009/06/28/fifteen-minutes-of-h8-the-rise-and-fall-of-perez-hilton/Fifteen+Minutes+of+H8%3A+The+Rise+and+Fall+of+Perez+Hilton2009-06-29+01%3A08%3A32Andrew+Breitbart

Perez Hilton: Violence Isn’t the Answer, Violent Laughter Is

Perez Hilton aka Mario Armando Lavandeira, Jr. is the worst.  I’m not just referring to his much-publicized hit job on Carrie Prejean during the Miss USA contest.  I’m referring to his entire career.  His website, PerezHilton.com, is a parade of puerile garbage, a sleazy attempt to raise himself to celebrity status by tearing down other celebrities.

So it was not unsatisfying to watch his latest run-in with fellow Obama-supporter, assumed-name-fellow-traveler, Will.i.am.  In fact, it was delicious. Perez Hilton/Mario got into a verbal confrontation with Will.i.am, which ended with gay Mario calling Will.i.am a “faggot.”  Will.i.am’s manager then got into the act, punching Mario in the eye.  To which Mario responded with an enraged and hilarious YouTube video.  Because, after all, what better way to respond to being punched than to bitch about it on your blog?  (more…)

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Tags: "faggot", GLAAD, Perez Hilton, Police, will.iam
Posted Jun 26th 2009 at 4:35 pm in Celebrity News | 1689583 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bshapiro/2009/06/26/perez-hilton-violence-isnt-the-answer-violent-laughter-is/Perez+Hilton%3A+Violence+Isn%27t+the+Answer%2C+Violent+Laughter+Is2009-06-26+23%3A35%3A37Ben+Shapiro

The Vandals – The Day Farrah Fawcett Died

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Tags: Farrah Fawcett, Joe Escalante, Music, Vandals, Video
Posted Jun 26th 2009 at 4:35 am in Celebrity News, Video | 170922No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jescalante/2009/06/26/the-vandals-the-day-farrah-fawcett-died/The+Vandals+-+The+Day+Farrah+Fawcett+Died2009-06-26+11%3A35%3A49Joe+Escalante

When Reality TV Stars Go Bad, Who’s to Blame?

Apparently, reality TV couple Spencer and Heidi Pratt – who got their start on MTV’s The Hills and are now a part of this summer’s I’m a Celebrity – Get Me Out of Here – have run afoul of one of NBC’s reality programming head honchos with their latest attention-getting antics.

“They are everything that’s wrong with America,” executive vice president of alternative programming for NBC and Universal Media Studios, Paul Telegdy, said in a statement to Access Hollywood. “They are insincere, lazy, entitled and they claim the devil has possessed them.”

Apparently the couple not only demanded the royal treatment, but threatened to quit more than once and basically acted like a couple of spoiled brats.

I’d like to ask Mr. Telegdy: what did he expect? Reality shows take everyday people and turn them into minor celebrities overnight. It’s not like they had to work for years honing their craft while they waited tables and went on endless auditions, hoping and praying for their big break. (Of course, if one or both of your parents is Hollywood royalty, you skip that part and move right on to the big time.) The only “work” involved in reality stardom is standing in line to audition, hoping to get picked; although sometimes people with unusual life circumstances are approached by producers who hope to exploit their lives for ratings that translate into dollar signs (think Nadya Suleman, lovingly referred to by society as the “Octomom”). (more…)

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Tags: "Britain's Got Talent", Britney Spears, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Entertainment Tonight, Good Morning America
Posted Jun 8th 2009 at 10:54 am in Celebrity News, Entertainment, Featured Story | 1524669 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/pmeister/2009/06/08/when-reality-tv-stars-go-bad/When+Reality+TV+Stars+Go+Bad%2C+Who%27s+to+Blame%3F2009-06-08+17%3A54%3A03Pam+Meister

Sympathy Vote

I was going to let this one go.  I like the story, I was a fan, and it made me smile and yeah, (sniff) warmed my heart, too.  But after a week-long worldwide hoopla, and finally this morning hearing Mike Gallagher gush about this story on his radio show, (plus the fact that I’ve been mysteriously stricken this year with a terminal case of Can’t-Shut-Up Syndrome)…

…I must weigh in.

(Hey you think living with me is fun?  Ask my family – I’m insufferable.)

Susan Boyle became an overnight sensation with her rendition of “I Dreamed a Dream” on Britain’s Got Talent.   A rather frumpy and homely middle-aged woman by today’s beauty standards, she presented an unlikely candidate for singing stardom last week in front of the Celebrity judges, Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden, and Piers Morgan.  But as she began to sing, everyone was snapped into shock, so unanticipated was her fine singing voice.  The ovation and accolades that followed went straight to YouTube and set Boyle on the road to viral cyberspace superstardom. (more…)

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Tags: "Britain's Got Talent", Amanda Holden, American Idol, Mike Gallagher, Obama
Posted Apr 24th 2009 at 1:03 pm in Entertainment, Featured Story, News | 1158422 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/04/24/sympathy-vote/Sympathy+Vote2009-04-24+20%3A03%3A48Gary+Graham

Barbara Boxer: All She Wants to Do is Tax

All She Wants to Do is Tax! Music video parody of Barbara Boxer in time for the tea party rallies. 

Political parody has a long tradition in the West, with the First Amendment affording significant protections for political speech.  In spite of that, our political parody of President Obama, “After the Hope of November is Gone” using rocker Don Henley’s “Boys of Summer” as the vehicle attracted the wrath of Henley, as he engaged lawyers to threaten an alternative paper and temporarily bounced the music video from YouTube.  (more…)

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Tags: Barbara Boxer, Don Henley, satire Chuck DeVore, spoof, Tea Parties
Posted Apr 14th 2009 at 3:05 pm in Entertainment, Political Humor | 1061222 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cdevore/2009/04/14/barbara-boxer-all-she-wants-to-do-is-tax/Barbara+Boxer%3A+All+She+Wants+to+Do+is+Tax2009-04-14+22%3A05%3A41Chuck+DeVore

Don Henley Strikes Back

The laughless legions of the left have struck again. Eagles band member Don Henley demanded the removal of my “Hope of November” parody song on YouTube.  YouTube took the music video Obama parody down yesterday after it was approaching 1,000 views.  

I was inspired to write the lyrics for “Hope of November” using Henley’s “The Boys of Summer” as a starting point after I saw a fading Obama bumper sticker while campaigning in the Bakersfield area.  

Liberal warriors are notorious for their thin skins and Don Henley is no exception. 

Perhaps I should mine some of Henley’s other songs for satirical gold.  “The End of the Innocence” comes to mind.  That 1989 song slammed Ronald Reagan, a man I worked for in the Defense Department, in the form of the line, “they’re beating plowshares into swords, for the tired old man that we elected king.”  At this line in the song the music video shows several Reagan posters while at the line “armchair warriors lead us into war” a television displays scenes of LtCol Oliver North’s congressional testimony.  Or perhaps the overbearing lyrics of “Little Tin God” will do.  The line referring to Reagan, “The cowboy’s name was Jingo,” cries out for parodic reengineering.  (more…)

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Tags: "End of the Innocence", Don Henley, Hope of November, Oliver North, parody
Posted Apr 7th 2009 at 6:12 pm in Entertainment, Featured Story, Politics | 9957465 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cdevore/2009/04/07/devore-piece/Don+Henley+Strikes+Back2009-04-08+01%3A12%3A19Chuck+DeVore

Lonewolf Diaries: Angry Muslims, Death Threats and One Crazy Week

*Warning: Extremely Offensive Material*

Since putting a “fatwa” on my head seems to be in vogue, I’m banking on getting my face on the cover of “GQ”. Get lost, Jude Law.

Sure, following the massive influx of violent threats, I could have opted to remove the most recent video. Everyone else (YouTube officials, in particular) seem to be kowtowing to these crazy Islamic cyber-fear-mongers.  I’d rather be keel-hauled. (more…)

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Tags: Colt, Death threats, GQ, Islam, Jew
Posted Feb 24th 2009 at 5:50 pm in Media Criticism, News, Political Humor | 65282316 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/scrowder/2009/02/24/lonewolf-diaries-angry-muslims-death-threats-and-one-crazy-week/Lonewolf+Diaries%3A+Angry+Muslims%2C+Death+Threats+and+One+Crazy+Week2009-02-25+01%3A50%3A08Steven+Crowder

The Qur’an Challenge!

If the last video forced me to screen my emails/phone calls, I’m guessing this one will make it necessary for me to invest in a Ruger… A big one.

In light of the recent “Honor Killing” on our own soil (and the complete lack of media attention), the religion of Islam needs a healthy dose of criticism.  Sure, I could have made a video about Christianity or Buddhism (only to receive a handful of respectfully scolding letters)… But what’s the fun in that?!

Read your Qur’an.

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Tags: Buffalo Honor Killing, Mohammed, Qur'an, Youtube
Posted Feb 20th 2009 at 9:40 am in Political Humor, Video | 55950141 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/scrowder/2009/02/20/the-quran-challenge/The+Qur%27an+Challenge%21++2009-02-20+17%3A40%3A00Steven+Crowder

Make a Bigger Pie

Box-office attendance continues to trend lower and lower each year. It’s on such a downward trajectory you’d think it might be tied to the crashing Republican brand we keep hearing about. But I think the opposite is the case. From an ideology standpoint, the political mono-think of Tinseltown is failing over half the largest audience demographic, and they don’t care.

I hear the excuses from the can-don’ts. People get their entertainment from their phones and YouTubes now. But I sure as hell didn’t watch “Iron Man” on my phone, I have no interest in watching “Gran Torino” on my computer and I won’t be waiting three months for the BluRay to come out. My friends said I had to see those movies today! Yesterday! Do whatever it takes to go see it! (more…)

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Tags: 300, box office, Che, Gran Turino, Iron Man
Posted Jan 28th 2009 at 12:20 pm in Entertainment, Media Criticism, Politics | 3183055 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dtennapel/2009/01/28/make-a-bigger-pie/Make+a+Bigger+Pie2009-01-28+20%3A20%3A43Doug+TenNapel