The Campaign, which came out last summer, was a sometimes-quite-funny satire of the emptiness of campaign rhetoric and political positions. Will Ferrell starred in that movie, but his endorsement of Eric Garcetti for Los Angles Mayor is actually a much shorter and funnier version of it:
It’s pretty depressing that most of what politicians promise us has the substance of Tuesday waffles—and they have this same level of commitment to actually making Tuesday waffles happen.
Alyssa Rosenberg is the Features Editor for ThinkProgress.org. She is a columnist for the XX Factor at Slate, and a correspondent for TheAtlantic.com Alyssa grew up in Massachusetts and holds a B.A. in humanities from Yale University. Before joining ThinkProgress, she was editor of Washingtonian.com and a staff correspondent at Government Executive. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Daily Beast,The New Republic, Esquire.com, The Daily, The American Prospect, and National Journal. Read more.
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