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Those who live near the Empire Polo Fields, where the Coachella Music and Arts Festival was held, woke up this morning to something that looked like snow, according to some residents. Thousands of small pro-Obama fliers littered the ground after they were dropped from a plane flying overhead last night during Roger Waters' set around 11:25 p.m., residents said. "They're all over the place. ... [link]

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Coachella fallout: Roger Waters pollutes for Obama
Published 4/28/2008 by Whitney Pastorek at Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
... , was in fact dropping thousands of tiny Obama fliers. Can't decide which part of this news tidbit I find more enjoyable-- the extravagance of that gesture, or this quote in the above-linked article from an irate citizen: "All of our gardeners will now have to spend the whole day trying to clean this up." Indeed. ...

Roger Waters: Littering For Obama [Misguided Gestures]
Published 4/28/2008 by Maura Johnston at Idolator
... small pro-Obama fliers littered the ground after they were dropped from a plane flying overhead last night during Roger Waters' set around 11:25 p.m., residents said." (Here is where I note that I'm posting this because when these fliers were being dropped—which was, I believe, about two hours earlier than this report says—I seriously thought that the plane doing the littering was either a) raining confetti on the crowd or b) engaging in anti-Floyd-fan chemical warfare.) [The Desert Sun via ...

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