Puppet Ezra Levant stars in puppet rap video
"S'up Easy-E!" — Real-life Kathryn Marshall to real-life Ezra Levant on Twitter.
I agree with the folks at The Tyee and Bethany Horne at OpenFile Halifax: Friday afternoons and YouTube videos just seem to go together.
Today’s is a satirical puppet rap video courtesy of The Tyee starring puppet versions of Sun News’ Ezra Levant and Ethical Oil’s Kathryn Marshall (of Power & Politics trainwreck interview infamy).
The video was created by Caitlin Dodd (who made the Kathryn puppet), David Henderson-Hean (who shot the video), Kai Nagata (who made the Ezra puppet), Spencer Powell (who did animation) and Emile Scott (who wrote the song).
The Tyee has also posted an annotated version of the lyrics, linking to source material for things the puppet rap references.
Both Levant and Marshall took to Twitter with reaction to the video. Marshall embraced her "K-Mart" side, while Levant questioned where the money behind the video came from. (Nagata says they created the video for free, but are accepting PayPal donations to cover costs.)
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@kainagata the Tides Foundation out of San Francisco gave the Tyee $15,000 to fight the "tar sands". How much went to fund this?
— Ezra Levant (@ezralevant) March 16, 2012
@kainagata Tides Canada continuously gives charitable donations to The Tyee. Do you think your anti-oil video qualifies as charitable work?
— Ezra Levant (@ezralevant) March 16, 2012
Oh lighten up, @ezralevant. One thing I'll say for @KVMarshall is she can take a joke. Nobody got paid to make the video. It's just for fun.
— Kai Nagata (@kainagata) March 16, 2012
@ezralevant S'up Easy-E!
— Kathryn Marshall (@KVMarshall) March 16, 2012
@kainagata Burning the midnight oil studying for law finals.I've gotta say, K-Mart has much better pipes than I do!
— Kathryn Marshall (@KVMarshall) March 16, 2012
