Why do we need campaign finance reform? Well, weâve tried everything: voting, signing petitions, contacting our lawmakers and even protesting. But nothing ever seems to work. Maybe youâve even thought about slipping a little bribe to your congresscritter, but you donât want to get thrown in jail, plus thereâs always more month than paycheck.
âIâll bet you ask yourself, âwhy am I such a stupid piece of crap?’â  âVinceâ from Funny or Die! declares.
In a hilarious infomercial for a fake product called LobbyWOW! Funny or Die! makes a strong case for campaign finance reform while demonstrating how our politicians take huge bribes that (Vince assures us) are â100 percent legal.â
âHi, Vince here with LobbyWow! Iâm going to tell you how you can turn your tens of millions of dollars into literally billions. Hereâs how. [âŠ] LobbyWow! takes this useless bribe and turns it into a campaign contribution.â
Taking his cue from that old adage about how we really donât want to see how legislation or sausages are made, Vince shows us how our political system works as he stands before a bowl full of hamburger. Since real meatâs expensive, heâd like to mix in some pink slime, sawdust and other vile substances to stretch it out. But oh, dang, those pesky government regulations. Luckily for him, all he has to do is use LobbyWow! to launder his cash by magically handing his bribe over to a lobbyist who transforms it into a campaign contribution.
And voila! A loophole gets passed and those annoying regulations magically disappear.
Watch: Insanely Funny âLobbyWow!â Infomercial Makes The Case For Campaign Finance Reform.
The video even directs you to a website address, www.GetLobbyWow.Com, which takes you to a satirical product page run by the campaign finance reform activist group, Represent.Us. Here you can sign a petition and get more information about the American Anti-Corruption Act. This proposed legislation seeks to:
- Stop politicians from taking legal bribes from the special interests theyâre supposed to regulate;
- Require SuperPACs to play by the rules; bar politicians from working for lobbyists for a set number of years;
- Clearly identify people who lobby as âlobbyistsâ;
- Limit donations from lobbyists;
- Mandate full transparency of all political contributions;
- Change how elections are funded;
- Disclose âbundlingâ of contributions, and;
- Step up enforcement.