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Spoof Presidential Candidate 'Honest Gil' Racks up 1 Million Views in 24 Hours

‘Honest Gil’ Fulbright, the satirical politician who ridicules the influence of money in America’s political system, is back in 2016.

In 2014, ‘Honest Gil’ Fulbright made a (satirical) run for the U.S. Senate in Kentucky, (fake) challenging then Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and his Democratic rival Alison Lundergan Grimes in what was then the most expensive Senate election of all time. Now, good ol’ Gil is back, and he’s set his sights even higher: the presidency.

 

Rachael Leigh Cook and Her Frying Pan Are Back.

Did you know the federal government continues to classify marijuana as a Schedule 1 drug despite 24 states and the District of Columbia having legalized it in some form and eight states passing laws allowing its recreational use?

Twenty years ago, actress Rachael Leigh Cook, then 18, appeared in a famous PSA that focused on the ravages of opiate addiction on the 10th anniversary of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America’s classic egg-centric “This is your brain on drugs” campaign. Today, Cook appears in a very different sort of ad for a very different client—as the Drug Policy Alliance examines the human toll of the “war on drugs” launched more than 45 years ago by Richard Nixon.

 

Actress Jennifer Lawrence Lays out a plan to save america

Brooklyn acting-writing-production duo Ryan and Sean Kleier have been filming comedic shorts for over five years, taking on subjects that range from steroid scandals to Independence Day speeches. Now that their production company, Motiv, has been sharing their talents with political advocacy groups, they’re using comedy to highlight the absurdities of American politics. Through the process, the brothers may well have produced the most honest candidate of the 2014 midterm elections. The catch? Gil Fulbright isn’t real. But he’s putting the spotlight on special interest politics and a grassroots campaign for electoral reform. We recently chatted about Tea Partiers, cheese, lobbyists, Waterworld—and how much humor it might take to achieve political reform.