2010-10-02 Donald Duck Meets Glenn Beck in Right Wing Radio Duck

2010-10-02 Jonathan McIntosh Rebellious Pixels \Glenn Beck\Donald Duck\2008 financial meltdown\satire\videos\animation\Creative Commons youtube:HfuwNU0jsk0 Donald Duck Meets Glenn Beck in Right Wing Radio Duck Donald Duck Meets Glenn Beck in Right Wing Radio Duck Summary from YouTube: This is a re-imagined Donald Duck cartoon remix constructed using dozens of classic Walt Disney cartoons from the 1930s to 1960s. Donald's life is turned upside-down by the current economic crisis and he finds himself unemployed and falling behind on his house payments. As his frustration turns into despair Donald discovers a seemingly sympathetic voice coming from his radio named Glenn Beck.

Will Donald's feelings of disenfranchisement lead him to be persuaded by his radio's increasingly paranoid and divisive rhetoric? Or will our favorite Disney duck decide that this voice is not actually on his side after all? Watch and find out! Some informative dialogue between the creator and a viewer: (billyboy19742004 - 9 hours ago) @rebelliouspixels Yes my reply was glib and simplistic for sure. Maybe unlike you I do have some ambivalence regarding the manipulated millions in all this, because of course none of this is new; charlatanism and demagoguery are as old as the hills, while apathy and wilful ignorance have always been their necessary precondition. Weimar Germany comes to mind;? everyone said it was not their place to know anything. (rebelliouspixels - 6 hours ago) @billyboy19742004 - No worries. Weimar Germany is an apt comparison if we don't push the analogy too far and i? certainly have no sympathy? for the disgusting racism on display at many tea party events. Though I hope we can agree to place the blame on the wealthy, the powerful and their media mouthpieces instead of on those, like Donald, taken in by the rhetoric. Sadly there is little in the way of alternative explanations presented to the average person these days.

(rebelliouspixels - 11 hours ago) @billyboy19742004 - Actually, I was more going for the audience to be sympathetic to Donald's situation in this remix, hopefully viewers can understand why Donald turned to Beck? at first - not because he is stupid but rather because he is facing real economic oppression. When few others in the mass media are providing anything but the status quo Beck is opportunistically providing what, to Donald, seem like answers (crazy, racist & dangerous answers but still).

The use of sympathetic fictional characters through which we can understand new narratives is something I learned from fannish vidding. Vidders,? as they are called, mostly use music lyrics to tell alternative tv stories but its Interesting stuff to be sure.

(billyboy19742004 - 12 hours ago) @rebelliouspixels Thanks I've been reading about deconstruction lately then? along comes your piece and it just tweaked. All of a sudden I understood both Derrida and your work much better. So thank you.

ps. I think "pop-culture hacking" is an excellent metaphor.

(rebelliouspixels - 10 hours ago) @billyboy19742004 - Thanks! While i like the? term "remix" it does not quite cover the video work I try and make. My work is more then simply mashing a few separate sources together, its attempting to really delve into the underlining myths and narratives inside the sources, to deconstruct them and build something revealing (and entertaining) from the fragments. Which is more like hacking than anything else in my mind.

Highest Rated Comments (out of 1768 total comments, as of 2010-10-10 09:10):
 * (rebelliouspixels - 1 day ago 16 hours) @LoveChildOfDeath - I was careful to leave? Beck's overarching message and meaning intact.
 * (MrBlockishMark - 1 day ago 8) Who ever made this is a fucking? genius.
 * (tesstricks - 16 minutes ago) Thanks for listening to all that Glenn Beck? to bring us this. I sure as hell couldn't do it.
 * (holtychode - 2 hours ago) excellent job. this open? my eyes to few things.
 * (Turtleproof - 4 hours ago) If Glenn Beck truly hated government? corruption he would quit his job as a state-sponsored propagandist.
 * (06hatter - 5 hours ago) @rebelliouspixels This is why a good education is so important. Americans aren't being given the tools to tell fact from fiction, especially in a political context, and the growing defunding of education and infrastructure in the U.S. doesn't bode well for the future. The elites are hard at work creating the next generation of ignorant exploitable worker whose anger will be misdirected toward the? latest scapegoat. Meanwhile 45,000 die each year for lack of health insurance.
 * (professorbutters - 9 hours ago) Loved this. Poor desperate, angry Donald, turning to Glenn Beck! I think the bit that sticks with me, though, is "terrifying" Panchito Pistoles. Sad to think that they used to be friends and that while *Three Cabelleros* is silly and stereotyped, at least it's? a positive portrayal. We've gone backwards--badly. Enough to make you cry.
 * (Jkchunt - 10 hours ago) The more well made the video is, the angrier and? more desperately long people's responses become. Nice job.

&ldquo;This is a re-imagined Donald Duck cartoon remix constructed using dozens of classic Walt Disney cartoons from the 1930s to 1960s. Donald's life is turned upside-down by the current economic crisis and he finds himself unemployed and falling behind on his house payments. As his frustration turns into despair Donald discovers a seemingly sympathetic voice coming from his radio named Glenn Beck.&rdquo;   