Discussion: Biden Supporters Issue Harsh Legal Warning After Moms Leak Video Of Ad Filming

I saw the headline and I thought “God, what now. What do they have Biden doing on video with moms?”

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Honestly? I think she could do better.

If a bear shits in the woods and it wasn’t instantly tweeted, retweeted, liked and instagrammed with a sepia filter then did it really happen?

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In other video that folks don’t want seen, in this case again.

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the one time Moore was right.

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New Biden/Bernie poll:

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Time is money in ad production. I used to work in that field. You use paid actors because they will show up on time, and (depending on the gig) in wardrobe and makeup. Kid actors past a certain age are trained to wait patiently and stay out of the way.

It sounds like these weren’t pro actors though, just random people off the street. Pros wouldn’t violate an NDA. Someone was doing this on the cheap.

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Read the article again. “He” wasn’t the one who made the ad.

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“He” wasn’t the one who made them sign the NDA. Biden didn’t make the ad.

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Thanks, that makes sense.

But that part seems even weirder.

Biden’s team may have contacted several production companies and gone with the lowest bidder. A production company can undercut other bids by hauling people off the street, instead of going through a modeling or acting agency.

Or maybe it was nephew syndrome with someone on his team. “Hey, I’ve got a nephew with a cool video camera and a computer, and he speaks Spanish!” It happens.

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Well sure, I mean I wasn’t under the misapprehension that Biden was sitting there in a director’s chair, calling the shots, or had drafted the NDA.

But I am assuming there is some coordination between “supporters” making a “campaign-style ad” touting Biden’s “backstory.”

If not…that’s a whole other problem.

Again, I don’t think this is a big deal, just seems kinda amateur hour for such a major candidate. But maybe this is really a totally outside group that Biden’s folks don’t (and maybe can’t, for campaign finance reasons?) have any real coordination with.

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Biden didn’t make the ad. Read the article again.

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The “supporters” might be a PAC and there can’t be any coordination.

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Now that you mention it, I’ve run into that dynamic more than a few times. But for a presidential campaign? If that’s what was going on, then hopefully this is a wake-up call.

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Has he announced formally? I haven’t heard about it.

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Oh, it happens. It takes a very sophisticated client to understand that the skills involved in producing a pro-level video involve more than watching TV since infancy or being told by your friends that you’re funny.

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Nah. He’s still in his Prince of Denmark stage: should I or should I not, but I’ll continue to make noises indicating both.

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Tony Bourdain talked about something similar vis a vis restaurants. A dentist throws a small dinner party, friends love the meal, tell him he should open a restaurant, he believes he can and should, throws his life savings into the project, fails very shortly thereafter and he loses everything he has.

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Was “neither” an option?

How about “Both too old”?

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