The Alliance for Justice launched its campaign to preserve the Filibuster Rule in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday (4/5/05). Billed as a "national media and internet campaign to preserve the filibuster", the campaign uses an animated character named "Phil A. Buster" to help explain the importance of the filibuster in easy to understand language. According to the website, "the animated, educational 30-second spot will appear on national cable and in several targeted states and will be promoted on major news web sites and blogs."
Here's a bit of transcribed dialogue from "Phil and the One Party Rule-bot!":
Hi, I'm Phil.
These really smart guys, Our Founding Fathers, wanted to make sure that no one ended up with too much power. And to do that they came up with a really smart idea. Checks and Balances. Like I said .. smart guys.
It's the job of Checks and Balances to make sure that no one gets too much influence and everyones voice is heard. Really smart. And I'm one of the ways Checks and Balance do their jobs. And its worked pretty well for 200 years.
I'm Phil A. Buster!