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Free For All!

One Dudes Quest for Democracy

FREE FOR ALL! details the corruption of the 2004 U.S. election with humor and extensive investigative reporting.

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Featured Comedy: The Writers Room

The Writers Room

Web Series for Sony Television/Crackle

Long hours, office politics, and food allergies are all in a day’s work as the group struggles to write jokes and survive within an environment that is a hotbed of neuroses…

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Jane's Addiction

Exposure: Jane’s Addiction

The 1997 Relapse Tour

Filmed for the independent documentary Three Days, this footage was handed to me to turn into a pilot for MTV about following bands on the road.

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Faking It Reunion

The Oprah Winfrey Show (ABC)

Oprah recaps the Male Model episode where a junkyard worker slob crams to pass as a model and sees where the characters are now.

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“Porno Music”

Instant Films Festival (2009)

Abby is uncertain if it’s just her, or if she’s living in a porno movie.

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The Fraud of Voter Fraud

Video The Vote

Bertha Lewis, CEO Chief Organizer of ACORN (shown) explains how ACORN is misrepresented in the media, and why. (2008).

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RECENT POSTS

Palin Pilloried

Posted by John Wellington Ennis on September 1, 2008

I knew right away that Wonkette’s favorite GILF, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, was in over her head when she was plucked from obscurity by an apparently desperate McCain campaign to balance out their ticket and distract from any real discussion of McCain’s record and ideas.

I knew that her staggering lack of experience was going to be seized upon as both debunking McCain’s experience argument against Obama, as well as a reason to question the wisdom gained from McCain’s experience.

I knew watching Biden debate her would be like watching a child get lectured.

I knew that as a campaign issue herself, Palin would get pilloried, because it had to be done.

But I did not expect the emergence of such a particularly dark narrative as what has just been spreading over the blogosphere.

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Did this ardent Pro-Lifer cover up her teenage daughter’s birth to a baby with Down syndrome and claim it was her own?  And in doing so use a deplorable cover story—that after her water broke, she went ahead with a speech in Texas, then flew 8 hours back to Alaska to give birth, then drive another hour out of the city to a small town medical clinic where she knows everyone?

And that same girl is today announced pregnant—again?—and getting married is somehow therefore proof that the timeline, photos of Bristol with a bump, and the new VP nom noticeably NOT with any bump don’t add up to something?

This Labor Day feels like the inhalation before an otherwise remote small town scandal becomes the flesh in a feeding frenzy.

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Amy Goodman Arrested at RNC

Posted by John Wellington Ennis on September 1, 2008

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Excalibur, Las Vegas

Posted by John Wellington Ennis on August 30, 2008

The view from the stately Excalibur, inspired by Camelot, yadda yadda
go gamble your money away.

Vegas, Baby!

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Denver Open Media

Posted by John Wellington Ennis on August 30, 2008

My Exec Producer Holly Mosher and I got the chance to air clips of FREE FOR ALL! and discuss what we have seen in Denver.  You can even see this blog in the piece, making this as self-involved as an MC Escher picture!

DenverOpenMedia

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Arizona…

Posted by John Wellington Ennis on August 29, 2008

just cutting across the corner of the state on our way into Nevada…

Utah...

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Hello, Utah

Posted by John Wellington Ennis on August 29, 2008

Hello Utah

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Adieu, Colorado

Posted by John Wellington Ennis on August 29, 2008

Adieu, Colorado

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On Denver Radio

Posted by John Wellington Ennis on August 28, 2008

I’m about to go on KGNU Radio (88.5 FM Boulder, 1390 AM Denver) to
discuss the free for all of this convention while voters get knocked
off the rolls like ants off a picnic blanket.

Denver Open Media

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Camping in Denver, but not for the DNC

Posted by John Wellington Ennis on August 28, 2008
This family is camping out for a snowboard sale. In 5 days.Since this is precisely the demographic who is so oblivious to
politics they can’t notice a political convention in town, we gave
them a copy of FREE FOR ALL! to watch in between X-Box hockey.

Camping in Denver--not what you think

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Make Out, Not War

Posted by John Wellington Ennis on August 28, 2008

If you look really really close in the aerial shot, you can see the makers of FREE FOR ALL! in the top of the letters “E,” “K,” and the first “A.”

And true to their words, you will not see any war in this video.

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  1. twitter (feed #4) My piece just posted: Why Mitt Romney Won't Get the Job: http://t.co/0iC9byEj [#] 11h ago via Twitter
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  3. twitter (feed #4) RT @hotcoffeeandpie: Congressman Sources An Onion Article As Fact On Facebook http://t.co/foHUA9zE [#] 19h ago via Twitter
  4. twitter (feed #4) I'm celebrating the birthday of #Reagan101 today by ignoring our massive debt, the Iran Contra scandal, and AIDS. #GEsalesrep [#] 22h ago via Twitter
  5. twitter (feed #4) RT @JohnFugelsang: I'm celebrating #Reagan101 by Union-Busting the air traffic controllers even though I used to head a union and all. [#] 22h ago via Twitter
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  11. twitter (feed #4) I feel like watching a sporting event today. Any suggestions? [#] 2d ago via Twitter
  12. twitter (feed #4) “@thehill: After strong jobs report, Obama tells Congress 'don't muck it up' http://t.co/oxiyLSfD #economy” Shoulda told them the opposite. [#] February 3rd via Twitter
  13. twitter (feed #4) “@greenhousenyt: Komen Cancer Foundation Reverses Its Move to Cut Funding to Planned Parenthood http://t.co/d8Rv3eB2” #calloffthedogs #win [#] February 3rd via Twitter
  14. twitter (feed #4) RT @robdelaney: "But they're DEATH PANEL jobs..." "Bin Laden is now a powerful ghost..." "Look! A pony!" - GOP strategists, right now [#] February 3rd via Twitter
  15. twitter (feed #4) Hearing the cuss free version on @935KDAY of NWAs "Straight Outta Compton" is like that disorienting sip of soda you don't yet know is diet. [#] February 3rd via Twitter
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  17. twitter (feed #4) “@SpeakerBoehner: .@TransportGOP passes #AmericanEnergy & Infrastructure #Jobs Act backed by job creators http://t.co/OJeImH23” #JobCremator [#] February 3rd via Twitter
  18. twitter (feed #4) RT @hardknoxfirst: RT @JohnFugelsang: John Boehner says "clear the housing market" because it sounds way better than "foreclose on more ... [#] February 3rd via Twitter
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  20. twitter (feed #4) RT @hotcoffeeandpie: Romney: I'm not concerned about the very poor. They don't have photo ID and we're not going to let them vote. #NewJ ... [#] February 3rd via Twitter
  21. twitter (feed #4) “@latimes: "Jack Sparrow" pepper-sprayed in Hollywood action figure brawl; Cat Woman, others fled scene http://t.co/ujkuwAs5” #Hollyweird [#] February 3rd via Twitter
  22. twitter (feed #4) “@samsteinhp: It has become impossible to trace the money coming into elections, even when disclosed. http://t.co/5jO3GWqZ” [#] February 2nd via Twitter
  23. twitter (feed #4) Now Playing at Trader Joe's: "I Can't Wait" by Nu Shooz #TJsPlaylist [#] February 2nd via Twitter
  24. twitter (feed #4) It seems that most things that begin with the announcement "You asked for it, America!" were not actually requested by the American people. [#] February 1st via Twitter
  25. twitter (feed #4) RT @thinkprogress: "Gasland" filmmaker arrested for trying to film fracking hearing http://t.co/6XyYozaL #icymi [#] February 1st via Twitter
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  27. twitter (feed #4) RT @Pay2PlayTV: Colbert Super PAC Secrets: "I got 99 problems but a non-connected independent-expenditure only committee ain't one!" ht ... [#] January 31st via Twitter
  28. twitter (feed #4) RT @HuffPostBlog: A #Sundance review of Ice-T's "Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap" http://t.co/Tcs0LWi2 via @johnennis [#] January 30th via Twitter
  29. twitter (feed #4) My review of Ice-T's #HipHop documentary is featured on the front page of Huff Post: http://t.co/Llyryhux [#] January 30th via Twitter
  30. generic (feed #3) Shared Sundance Doc Review: Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap January 30th via Huffington Post
  31. twitter (feed #4) RT @shanasspring: I saw Mr. Bossie just last night...around my house he is referred to as"The Destroyer of this Great Nation"@johnennis [#] January 28th via Twitter
  32. twitter (feed #4) Ice Cube: 'I consider my music street knowledge--for the streets to tell politicians what's up' from "Something from Nothing" @sundancefest [#] January 27th via Twitter
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  34. twitter (feed #4) RT @sundancefest: A few more days of this and I may start believing in Joseph Smith -@birbigs http://t.co/z1EizVTP #sundance [#] January 27th via Twitter
  35. twitter (feed #4) Amazing doc on American holocaust that is our War on Drugs THE HOUSE I LIVE IN by Eugene Jarecki (Why We Fight) @DrugWarMovie @sundancefest [#] January 26th via Twitter
  36. twitter (feed #4) Van Jones: "You can win the election but lose the debate." http://t.co/2Zu8dRrY [#] January 25th via Twitter
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  38. twitter (feed #4) Clinton would call it "triangulation" “@realjeffreyross: Reality is over. @BarackObama just quoted Larry The Cable Guy. #SOTU” [#] January 24th via Twitter
  39. twitter (feed #4) RT @Eristophanes: Boehner can smile about spilled milk joke, but not equal pay for women?! Asshole. [#] January 24th via Twitter
  40. twitter (feed #4) Wait, there's an Attorney General? [#] January 24th via Twitter
  41. twitter (feed #4) Man Boehner looks like he belted a few to make it through this speech. #SOTU [#] January 24th via Twitter
  42. twitter (feed #4) RT @steveweinstein: GOP can't even applaud at more oil drilling in the USA if the black guy says it's OK. #sotu [#] January 24th via Twitter
  43. twitter (feed #4) RT @JamilSmith: I feel like I'll hear the words "by any means necessary" after some of these sentences. POTUS is feeling it. #SOTU [#] January 24th via Twitter
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  45. twitter (feed #4) RT @TheBradBlog: In truth, Boehner's lack of even courtesy applause tonight is rather striking. Even for him. #SOTU [#] January 24th via Twitter

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