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The left-leaning Service Employees International Union demonizes—well, monster-izes, actually—buyout firms that receive sweet tax breaks, in a new spot that uses Japanese monster-movie footage. The skyline-smashing creatures are likened to John McCain, who probably views the comparison as a compliment. Most media reports identify the saurians in the spot as multiple Godzillas. However, anyone who wasted their youth watching The 4:30 Movie on Channel 7 in New York—and geeks and kaiju fans the world over—will recognize the scaly beasts as the cheap Big-G knockoffs from 1967’s Gappa,
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