Thursday, August 6, 2009

The Birther Logline

In Hollywood, you pitch a script using a logline. A good logline is a one sentence summary of your script.

Liar, Liar would be something like this.

A child's birthday wish forces a lawyer to tell the truth for 1 month.

White House press secretary, Robert Gibbs, turns the birther theories into a Hollwyood logline. See if you'd buy it.

“A pregnant woman leaves her home to go overseas to have a child -- who there’s not a passport for -- so is in cahoots with someone…to smuggle that child, that previously doesn’t exist on a government roll somewhere back into the country and has the amazing foresight to place birth announcements in the Hawaii newspapers? All while this is transpiring in cahoots with those in the border, all so some kid named Barack Obama could run for President 46 and a half years later."

(Guy Ritchie might, might do something like this. There's a .5% chance he would, just like there's a .5% chance Obama's not a citizen).

[Hat tip: Political Wire]