As many of you who look at this blog frequently or at least once a month might know, I love to pick on politicians.
And, there is no softer target that a complete unknown, fringe candidate trying desperately hard to get attention while the mainstream media pays attention to which kind of gel Mitt Romney uses for hair or what kind of juice that Barack Obama has with his morning breakfast.
Enter Mike Gravel.
The former Democratic Alaska Senator got 442 votes in the New Hampshire Primary, but he is still in the race!
My fellow blogger Moviezzz watched tonight's televised Democratic debate from Myrtle Beach, SC, (Amazingly enough, I did not!) and he mentioned that neither Gravel nor Dennis Kucinich were there.
Well, some political die-hards like myself might be wondering just where these guys were.
I have no idea about Kucinich, but I can account for the whereabouts of Gravel between the hours that the debate was in progress.
The logical assumption since the Democratic Primary in South Carolina is on Saturday that he would be in a place like Spartanburg,Columbia, Rock Hill, Georgetown, Florence, Conway, Aiken ,Orangeburg or even Kings Tree, right?
Think again!
No, Gravel was not getting wasted at The Hard Rock Cafe in Myrtle Beach because he wasn't invited to the prom. Rather, he was far, far away at The Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah!
Apparently Gravel was part of a panel held by a group called The Creative Coalition. The subject of their dinner which started at 6 p.m. Utah time (which is like exactly when the Myrtle Beach debate was underway) was the impact of film on politics. A former secretary of agriculture was also there, but hey that guy's not running for president!
I got this info in an email from the Gravel campaign.
I am hoping to add a few more entries about this year's Sundance Film Festival, which started late last week, this week. I went there as a tourist in 2002. Bono, Colin Farrell and Bruce Willis have been some of the celebrities at this year's festival, which festival founder Robert Redford is trying to downplay.
Two years ago, a more substantial political figure made an appearance at The Sundance Film Festival. That was Al Gore who presented his documentary film "An Inconveinent Truth" at the festival. It went on to win an Oscar and inform the world about the dangers of global warming.
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