MoveOn Rocks the Ad Vote

Shoptalk admires MoveOn.org for its organizational pluck and the creativity of its “Bush in 30 Seconds” online ad contest. And the liberal political-advocacy group throws a pretty good party, too.

At last Monday’s event at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom, Charlie Fisher, a creative director from Denver who works at Leo Burnett in Copenhagen, was named the “Bush in 30 Seconds” winner. But that was only one highlight. Attendees were treated (if that’s the right word) to a rant by comedian Margaret Cho (“being a minority in this country is like dying of a thousand paper cuts”) and a performance by Moby, who played Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side” and Guns N’ Roses’ “Sweet Child o’ Mine.”