Today, we have an unembedded video clip and an embedded one. First, the unembedded clip. Someone posted it to YouTube with this description…
In 1969, the U.S. Senate had a hearing on funding the newly developed Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The proposed endowment was $20 million but President Nixon wanted it cut in half because of the spending going on in the Vietnam War. This is an video clip of the exchange between Mr. Rogers and Senator Pastore, head of the hearing. Senator Pastore starts out very abrasive and by the time Mr. Rogers is done talking, Senator Pastore's inner child has heard Mr. Rogers and agreed with him. Enjoy.
I can attest that Fred Rogers had that effect on people I met him once (described here) and he had a way of just draining all hostility and irate feelings from people around him. Here's the clip, which runs a little under seven minutes and is well worth the time.
Which brings us to our embedded clip. Okay, here's the premise: Let's take the movie The Ten Commandments and make up a movie trailer as if we're trying to market it as a teen comedy. Got it? Go…