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<title>Dwight from &#8216;The Office&#8217;: Make Election Day a National Holiday</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>News of celebrities making entertaining, attention-grabbing pleas to the public (especially the younger demographic) to get out and vote is nothing new. Wh0 could forget previous star-backed campaigns like <a href="http://www.rockthevote.com/" target="_blank">MTV&#8217;s Rock the Vote</a>, <strong>P. Diddy</strong>&#8216;s mildly threatening <a href="http://www.mtv.com/chooseorlose/voter101/news.jhtml?id=1489561" target="_blank">Vote or Die</a> or <strong>Leonardo DiCaprio</strong>&#8216;s &#8220;whatever, man&#8221; <a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/prnewser/a-bunch-of-celebrities-want-you-to-vote-again_b46332" target="_blank">Vote 4 Stuff</a>? Now, <strong>Rainn Wilson</strong> (that&#8217;s &#8220;Dwight&#8221; to fans of <em>The Office</em>), has offered his services to a campaign that isn&#8217;t striving to make voting cool (or pitch it as an alternative to death), but hopes to get more Americans to cast ballots by making the whole process into less of a &#8220;pain in the ass.&#8221;</p>
<p>How, you ask? By turning Election Day into a national holiday so that people who spend their days slaving away for, say, a paper company wouldn&#8217;t have to cram voting into an already-busy day packed with workplace priorities. In the clip, sponsored by <a href="http://soulpancake.com/" target="_blank">SoulPancake</a> and <a href="http://www.good.is/everyone" target="_blank">GOOD Magazine, </a>Wilson <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/click/2012/10/office-star-we-should-have-election-day-off-137911.html" target="_blank">plays</a> a poll worker who turns away a prospective voter.</p>
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<p>So what do you think, readers? A compelling argument, or just a funny ad? Would making Election Day a national holiday inspire the country to give this landscape-changing occasion the reverence it deserves, or would it just inspire people to crack a beer a bit earlier in the day? Would it help busy people get out and vote, or would it still leave many (like lower income workers who may not actually get the day off) behind? Lots to consider here, and we&#8217;d love to hear from you.</p>
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<dc:creator>Elizabeth S. Mitchell</dc:creator>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2012 13:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Did @RainnWilson Have a Twitter Mishap?</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-29409" title="rainn_wilson" src="http://www.mediabistro.com/prnewser/files/2011/10/rainn_wilson.jpg" alt="" width="180" height="240" />Is Rainn Wilson, star of NBC&#8217;s <em>The Office</em>, tweeting for the <a href="http://www.deltaco.com/">Del Taco</a> fast food chain?</p>
<p>Earlier this week, Wilson <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/rainnwilson">tweeted</a>, &#8220;Joanne – tell <a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/DelTaco">@DelTaco</a> I will accept $12,000 to plug their shitty food. Thanks, Rainn.” In a follow up tweet, Wilson asked readers to disregard that last message because it was for his assistant then went on to talk about the goodness of Del Taco food.</p>
<p>Media reported it as a gaffe, but maybe it&#8217;s a Twitter campaign posing as a gaffe? <a href="http://mashable.com/2011/10/26/rainn-wilson-satire/">Mashable corrected</a> its original story to state that the tweets were satire and Wilson wasn&#8217;t paid. Intrigue!</p>
<p><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2011/10/paid-to-tweet-rainn-wilsons-del-taco-promo-controversy/">ABC News notes</a> our <a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/prnewser/kim-kardashian-is-paid-to-tweet_b2775">previous coverage</a> of celebs that are paid to tweet, noting a bit of Kim Kardashian stickiness over tweets promoting Carl&#8217;s Jr. Either way, I&#8217;d never heard of Del Taco before this, so PR success.</p>
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<dc:creator>Tonya Garcia</dc:creator>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
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