Cenk Uygur
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ReasonTV To Samuel L. Jackson: Wake The Fuck Up'
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October 4, 2012
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9:09Now Playing"Hours after Samuel L. Jackson urged voters to "wake the f*** up" and vote for Obama, a libertarian news site is striking back, telling the actor to he's the one that needs to wake up. In a 1 minute and 30 second video released by the libertarian news site Reason, the twinkling moonlight and cozy houses of Jackson's 4-minute parody video are replaced by the bomb-filled skies and dusty huts of a Pakistani village. "This part of Pakistan isn't quite heaven, with drones buzzing over them 24/7," Reason's editor Nick Gillespie narrates in the rebuttal video. "The bombs that we're sending are not so precise. Hundreds of innocent people have died." "And your chief concern is a bake sale and such?" Gillespe adds. "Some news for you Samuel, wake the F*** Up." Jackson's video, which was released by the Jewish Council on Education and Research Super PAC last week, was written by Adam Mansbach, the author of "Go the F*** to Sleep," and featured Jackson touting Obama's accomplishments...".* Ana Kasparian, John Iadarola (host of TYT University and Common Room), and Steve Oh (TYT COO/Audio Guy) break it down on The Young Turks.
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