exclusive! What does History look like? In the weeks leading up to the historic 2008 election, filmmaker Jeff Deutchman wondered just that, and decided to capture it. Armed with his own cameras, he set out to chronicle that day as he experienced it — and sent out an open invitation for others from around the world to contribute their own images, footage and stories from the day Barack Obama was elected President of the United States — a.k.a., the day when the country voted for Hope. (more...)

It has been a little over a year since Barack Obama was elected President, which was popularly perceived at the time as a paradigmatic shift in history. A lot has happened since that exquisite moment - or, as some would put it, not enough has happened. Obama's presidency has been attacked from all sides as part of many different agendas, but the assault that interests me as a filmmaker and a progressive is the one leveled from the Left against Obama's failure to adequately move history forward. (more...)

Now that the dust has settled over the initial and headline-making revelations of the new campaign book Game Change, a number of people are beginning to question how authors John Heilemann and Mark Halperin managed to get all the juicy quotes they included in the book. Halperin described the process to Time managing editor Rick Stengel: (more...)

Who says no one is reading books anymore! Washington is still reeling today from revelations made in the uber-gossipy yet-to-be-released Game Change penned by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann. A copy of the book, which was technically under embargo until today, was discovered by the Atlantic's Marc Ambinder in a D.C. bookstore who shortly thereafter began posting the "juiciest bits" which shortly thereafter made international headlines. Not to be outdone the NYT apparently shortly thereafter got their hands on a copy and whipped up an embargo breaking review that called it "a spicy smorgasbord of observations, revelations and allegations — some that are based on impressive legwork and access, some that simply crystallize rumors and whispers from the campaign trail." It's true! Thus far the headlines sound like D.C.'s version of the behind the high school gymnasium gossip mill. And who could resist that. (more...)

video Past is prologue? Just in time for the 2010 mid-term election bonanza comes the much-anticipated Game Change, by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. So anticipated in fact that what is billed as a "sweeping, novelistic portrait of this historic and unusual race" is under embargo until Monday. Ahead of the release the two are being interviewed on 60 Minutes this Sunday along with John McCain's former top campaign strategist Steve Schmidt. Additionally, Drudge has devoted a entire box to it, including what yesterday looked like an excerpt, but which appears to have since been removed. (more...)

video We've seen Ben Affleck's impression on Saturday Night Live. Glenn Beck gave it a shot recently (it still needs a little work). And this morning on MSNBC's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough took on the persona of his colleague Keith Olbermann as he mocked the lofty rhetoric of 2008 Election Night. Update: maybe. (more...)