Tim Pawlenty runs for President of kaboom!

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfkNEq1XioE&feature=player_embedded

Now that you’re done crying/submissively urinating, you should know that that was a commercial for a book. Tim Pawlenty wrote Courage to Stand: An American Story, which I have not read but appears to be a heartwarming story of how anyone can make it in the United States if they work hard and are Tim Pawlenty, and this video about Valley Forge and the moon landing is ostensibly to sell that. In reality,* of course, it’s about how Tim Pawlenty would make an awesome President for an awesome people. As with the Amazon description of his book, which refers to “the gritty meat packing town of St. Paul,” there appears to be some mythmaking going on here. That probably explains why he hired Michael Bay to make his commercial—which, in turn, explains why the only black people in this video are Olympic athletes and Martin Luther King.

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