Lawrence Lessig draws ire of Rush Limbaugh and the Dittoheads
Lawrence Lessig's choice of examples to illustrate the vibrant video-mashup scene to Google employees in New York — a fabulous Jesus lipsyncing Gloria Gaynor's anthem "I Will Survive" — was picked apart by Redstate and then picked up by Rush Limbaugh. Mincing down Hollywood Boulevard and hip-bumping passers-by isn't how most Americans want to imagine their lord and savior. Lessig, who recorded a 20-minute video explaining why he's "4Barack," now serves to help Republicans paint the Obama campaign as out of touch with the mainstream. The original Redstate post goes so far as to raise the specter of Communism, painting Lessig's nuanced arguments for copyright reform as a call for the abolishment of intellectual property.