Paul Henry quotes Ken Burns, I quote Peter Griffin

Once in awhile something comes along that reduces me to quoting Peter Griffin: "Holy crap!" That's how good Paul Henry's "The War of the Words" is.

Even if your favorite ox is being gored, you have to study this for the masterful use of the medium. It's absolutely splendid, simultaneously skewering bloggers left and (mostly) right, not to mention a certain set of politicians, in a parody of Ken Burns's Civil War documentary, complete with the "Ashokan Farewell" soundtrack.

Thanks to Dan Gillmor, who observes that it's "unfair in some respects and utterly one-sided. It’s also a brilliant example of how to use democratized media tools to make a point. Take a look."

I don't know Paul Henry, but from the tracks he's left on the net it appears he's an ex-Microsoft technical writer living in Redmond, Washington, and not a high-dollar New York advertising agency hired by a political group. When you watch his Flash presentation you'll see how pretty much anybody with iMovie and GarageBand and an inspiration could make a "film" like it these days.