FADE UP FROM BLACK – A single simple cross.
PATRIOT (V.O.)
Republicans keep winning elections by talking about family values and promising to focus on
YOUR family…
FLASH PICTURE – UPPER LEFTHAND CORNER:
Face of Republican Values
Picture of MARK FOLEY, accompanying caption reads: “Values leader REPUBLICAN Rep. MARK FOLEY caught up in Congressional page sex scandal.” (FADE UNDER:)
FLASH IMAGE –SLIGHTLY OVERLAPPING LAST IMAGE – LOWER RIGHTHANDE CORNER
Picture of LARRY CRAIG, accompanying caption reads: “Anti-homosexual, married REPUBLICAN Senator LARRY CRAIG caught soliciting homosexual sex in a public bathroom.” (FADE UNDER:)
FLASH IMAGE – SLIGHTLY OVERLAPPING LAST IMAGE – CENTER
Picture of TED HAGGARD, accompanying caption reads: “Former close REPUBLICAN ally and president of the anti-gay National Association of Evangelicals, Ted Haggard, caught in a homosexual prostitute scandal.” (FADE UNDER:)
John McCain and Sarah Palin embracing and smiling for the cameras.
PATRIOT (V.O.) (CON’T)
Funny how their family values apply to
everyone except themselves…
MONTAGE
A series of short video clips burst onto the screen like press flash bulbs from 1950, each perspective moving TURBULENTLY and CIRCULARLY around its subject: First, a placard reading “another family for McCain”; Second, a crowd of protesters holding pro-life and McCain signs; Third, an aerial shot of a mega church UNDER:
PATRIOT (V.O.) (CON’T)
Now it’s happening again. Governor Sarah Palin is
running with John McCain as a pro-lifer, who’s
church promises to “pray away the gays…”
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