MoveOn spot worst of the Star Wars tie-ins

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Just because everyone is jumping on the Star Wars bandwagon doesn’t mean everyone should. In perhaps the lamest attempt to tie-in to Revenge of the Sith mania (except for, maybe, this one), MoveOn  started airing a parody ad last week that likens Senate majority leader Bill Frist to The Evil Emperor (see mean-looking guy at right). The voiceover intones, “ … one Senator, seduced by a dark vision of absolute power, seeks to destroy this fabled order [the fabled order has something or other to do with peace and justice], replacing fair judges with far right clones.”

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