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Coldcut Christmas Message by SummerSeventySix

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Premiered by the BBC's Culture Show in the U.K. over the weekend, Coldcut have applied their cut-and-paste ethic to critique George W. Bush's environmental policy with devastating effect. Words spoken by the President have been manipulated to make it appear like he's crooning along to "White Christmas," but it's juxtaposed with images that leave you in no doubt what Coldcut think. As the program's movie critic Mark Kermode says, it does more in two minutes than Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth managed in two hours.

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This entry posted on 11 December 2006 at 12:12 PM
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