Ron Paul Supporter Featured in Super Bowl Ad

When Ron Paul started his run for the Republican presidential primary back in 2007, I knew almost immediately that I was going to be hitting the road to support this man. It turned out that many people around the world caught the same bug. I say ‘world’ because, literally, there were people from Japan, Eastern Europe and other places who dropped everything to volunteer and travel for the campaign.

One memorable moment was meeting Marc Scibilia and his brother at an impromptu concert they gave for a gathering of supporters in New Hampshire. Around that time, Marc had written a song called, “Hope Anthem” (scroll down to hear it) as a donation to the Ron Paul campaign. I went on to use that song when I started doing video work for the Ron Paul Blimp. Yep, I got to ride on that crazy blimp as the official videographer.

So I was pretty excited this morning (No, I didn’t even watch the Super Bowl!) to see that Marc Scibilia’s cover of “This Land is Your Land” (originally by Woody Guthrie) had been featured in the Super Bowl ad for Jeep. And, best of all, his cover had caught the public’s imagination. His song was the #1 ‘shazamed’ song of the game.

Shazam is an app that identifies the artist for most songs available online.
Here’s the Jeep ad:

I wish Marc Scibilia all the best! Give him some love on his Facebook and listen to more of his music here. Download “This Land is Your Land.”

Marc Scibilia’s Hope Anthem as it was used in a video made to promote Ron Paul’s visit to Indiana University.

Ron Paul at IU from ShutterShock Productions on Vimeo.

Video by Kevin Winkler

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