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Josh Lyman Talking Dirty (Tricks)

by Julia Rosen [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]


Bradley Whitford, the actor who played Josh Lyman on the beloved show "The West Wing"" is riled up about the dirty tricks initiative.  Rick Jacobs asked him to film a video for Courage Campaign. 

Brad sat down and wrote his own heartfelt script and they filmed it in his house surrounded by all of his children's toys. As Brad says: "I don't know about you, but my children cannot afford another Republican president."

Watch the video and check out the new official No Dirty Tricks website.  Oh and join the conference call with Brad, Rick, Jane Hamsher (Firedoglake), John Amato (Crooks and Liars) and Ben Tulchin (pollster) at 4 pm today.  They will be answering questions from those on the call and a few submitted ahead of time.

You can support the campaign, and our ability to create these videos and hold these conference calls by contributing via ActBlue.

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Bradley Whitford Video on Telecom Immunity: Call Senator Feinstein

by Julia Rosen [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

(also up at Daily Kos.  full disclosure: I work for Courage)


Bradley Whitford, better known to many of you as Josh Lyman on The West Wing, took time out of filming a movie in Calgary to shoot this video for the Courage Campaign on the importance of opposing retroactive immunity for telecom companies.  Go watch the video and then do as he says, call your Senators.

Telecom immunity is scheduled to be brought up this week, last I heard Thursday.  It is extremely important that all of our Senators hear from us and hold the line against retroactive immunity.

Senator Dodd has promised to filibuster any bill that lets the phone companies off the hook for passing on our private information to the government without a warrant.  But we need 41 votes to sustain the filibuster and we need your help to get us there.

Here are Senator Feinstein's phone numbers.  Report back on your call here.

202-224-3841 (Washington, DC)

310-914-7300 (Los Angeles)

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My West Wing Nightmare: President Rudy "Dirty Tricks" Giuliani

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

Dear Readers,

My name is Bradley Whitford and I am an actor.

OK, if you want to stop reading now, I won't blame you...

Still here? Thanks. I totally understand your skepticism. I usually cringe when heady celebrities open their big mouths to pontificate about politics. While I may have portrayed political operative "Josh Lyman" on The West Wing, my political experience is probably a lot like yours.

That didn't stop me, of course, from recording a few YouTube videos about a month ago for the Courage Campaign, bluntly talking about the Electoral College dirty trick the Republicans were devising to steal the White House in 2008.

Well, now that the dirty trick ballot initiative is back from the dead (didn't hear the news? yep, some out-of-state fat cats are funding it), Courage is unearthing my second YouTube video. Never seen before. And on Halloween, no less.

You can click here to watch my my new YouTube about the dirty trick to steal the White House. 

But don't just watch the video. Take a second to support the Courage Campaign as well. Rick Jacobs and my good friends at Courage are doing amazing work right now to kill the dirty trick (again) AND block Blackwater's base on the California border.

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