You Heard It Here First: Tom For Prez in 2008

We had a nice turnout for the Paley Television Festival program last night in Hollywood. Chris Rock and cast members of Everybody Hates Chris were on hand.


MySpace is unbelieveably popular at the moment. I see articles about it online, in the newspaper, on TV and have even heard stories about it on a normally stodgy newsradio station. So the time is right to discuss it as a medianote.

It's gotten so absurdly big that I have this vision of the 2008 presidential election. The major party candidates are slinging mud at each other and voters are getting more and more disenchanted. Suddenly, about a month before the election, Tom (of MySpace fame) declares his candidacy. Tom campaigns completely through MySpace, adding more and more friends. Younger voters turnout out in droves. Tom wins and gets us all free wi-fi and broadband. The nation rejoices.

Maybe the guy who did MySpace The Movie could do a sequel about this.

Or we could test out this concept at Glendale College. It'd be cooler than cool if one of my Mass Comm 101 students became the Tom of a MySpace site for GCC students, promoted it heavily and gathered a staggering number of friends. Then everyone's GCC MySpace friend could run for student body president and wage the campaign online. Anyhow, that's a free idea for someone.