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Videos worth watching: Paris Hilton’s response & Joe Cocker with subtitles

I just got a surprising amount of respect for Hilton, who responded this week with this spoof to an ad by John McCain’s campaign criticizing Barack Obama for being too popular, and comparing him to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton:

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And this one is just a wonderful acknowledgement of Joe Cocker’s impenetrable mumbling. Yeah, it takes a boomer to really appreciate this clip, which is from Cocker’s 1969 performance at Woodstock. But for geezers like me, it’s a hoot. I was laughing uncontrollably at work today while watching this. (Thanks to my rockcrit pal John Morthland):