"You couldn’t have a starker contrast between the multiple layers of checks and balances [at ‘60 Minutes’] and a guy sitting in his living room in his pajamas writing.”
Actually, the commercial uses a recording believed to be Whitman reading the opening lines of his poem "America" in 1890. You can find it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Walt_Whitman_-_America.ogg
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I don't know about beautiful, but the half-submerged image is certainly true.
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They left out "suckers born every minute"
Pretty cool, I agree. I've heard people say that the wax cylinder recording used may be Whitman himself...
Whitman died in 1892. Seems pretty unlikely it was him.
Actually, the commercial uses a recording believed to be Whitman reading the opening lines of his poem "America" in 1890. You can find it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Walt_Whitman_-_America.ogg
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