Justin Bieber, too clean for politics?

In one of the most creatively outrageous political commercials since the infamous Johnson-Moyers Daisy Girl, the Center for American Progress’s creature, Campus Progress told the web world that “This isn’t your standard election year video of celebrities asking you to vote…It’s us, asking you to vote for celebrities who can’t, celebrities like Justin Bieber.  Bieber’s too young to vote, yet whomever we elect in the 2010 midterm elections will impact his future and ours. … So tell your parents, your grandparents, your Facebook friends … If they won’t do it for you, ask them to do it for Bieber.”

What would Jesus do?  J.C. can’t vote, so you’ve got to vote the way he (He?) would have the way we say he would have.  So many red-herrings.  Bieber isn’t just too young, he’s also too un-American to vote (too Canadian that is).  Why ride Justin Bieber’s coattails, and only him?  The methodical madness is that Bieber’s cottage industry extends to his overflowing Twitter microblogging.  There are just too many young and vulnerable to ignore.

The next best thing to a Beiber online endorsement is to intimate through expedient exaggeration a Beiber progressive-bent fantasy.  A Progress spokesperson reportedly said that they hoped Bieber would add a link onto his site (by kicking him in the butt and turning him into a useful idiot, although she didn’t say it exactly that way).

Most of Bieber’s fans are 12-year old girls, but they can get their parents to do anything for them, so the line of reason goes.

It will be instructive to see Bieber just as swiftly vilified by Progress if he breaks out of a conservative closet and links his millions of fans to the RNC.