"This Land" Shockwave
Atom Films has published a Woody Guthrie-inspired song duel between George W. Bush and John Kerry entitled "This Land".

JibJab's blog is documenting the sudden popularity of "This Land." From July 12:

In all the years we’ve been making these cartoons, we’ve never received a reaction like the one we got for “This Land”. On its first day, it did 3X the traffic we did with “Ahnuld for Governor” – and that one went all the way to Sundance! We thank you from the bottom of our hearts. When you pass around these cartoons, you’re not only showing the people you know how cool and hip you are… you are also increasing the odds that our cartoon winds up in the inbox of an advertising executive with a gigantic budget looking to hire an animation studio… and that’s when we get PAID!

From July 16:

Did you ever see that TV commercial with the people gathered around the computer watching their website traffic go up and up? At first they’re thrilled, then the panic sets in? That’s us about three days ago. Now we feel more like “The Old Man and the Sea”. We’re the old man, JibJab is the skiff and you people are one giant mutha f’ing shark!

Ever since Brian Wilson put us on FOX News, our server has been buckling under pressure, serving millions and millions of movies around the world. It’s amazing to think that two brothers in a warehouse in Santa Monica can create and distribute a cartoon worldwide without the help of a mega media conglomerate. The Inter-web is a beautiful thing!

UPDATE JULY 27

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