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You’ve got a little over 24 hours to choose which parody ad Free Press will use to draw attention to the unfunny truth behind AT&T’s propaganda efforts.  The ads, created by Free Press friend and media reform advocate Eddie Geller, use humor to tear down the myths AT&T is spreading to justify its proposed merger with T-Mobile.

Check them out here, and vote for your favorite.

Geller’s videos are the best sort of satire—telling the truth to skewer the powerful.  After all, as Mark Twain said, “No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.” And when your claims are as ridiculous as AT&T’s… well, let’s just say Mark Twain would probably enjoy these videos.

Someone else who knows a lot about satire also thinks the AT&T/T-Mobile deal is a bad idea.  Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) sent a letter this week to the FCC and Justice Department to urge them to reject this merger as “a major step towards the creation of an entrenched duopoly in the wireless industry. It would concentrate enormous power over the entire telecommunications sector in the hands of only two companies, and it would incentivize AT&T and Verizon to coordinate prices to the detriment of consumers.”

Sen. Franken joins a growing chorus of legislators, Including Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wisc.) and Reps. Anna Eschoo (D-Calif.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and John Conyers (D-Mich.), who’ve also written letters to pan the deal as harmful to consumers’ choices and the telecommunications industry at large.

These legislators are on the committees that oversee communications and antitrust issues, so they’re well-versed in the facts that AT&T has tried to cloud and confuse, and in many cases contradict, with their public campaign.  Free Press has already shot down much of this misinformation with fact sheets and thoroughly researched analyses of AT&T’s claims. Facing an unlimited war chest and a propaganda machine with no “off” switch, though, sometimes the truth has a hard time getting attention.

That’s why these videos are an important contribution to the nationwide effort to defeat AT&T’s power-grab. Because in the serious world of multi-billion dollar business deals, laughing at the moneygrubbers is a good way to get your point across.

So take a look, watch all four, and let us know which one you like the best.  The winner will be featured in our advertising campaign that will get everyone laughing at AT&T’s ridiculous plan.  (And if you can spare a few bucks, we’d appreciate it if you’d help us place them.)

But the clock is ticking.  Voting ends at 11:59 p.m. Friday. Cast your vote now.