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Apparently if you write a pro-Obama short you can have your choice of brilliant SNL-alums. They probably just kept tweeting @RonHoward (not real) to get in on this monumental work of protest.

The video, directed by Howard, was posted 11 hours ago (about 3 am EST?) so that makes us about 55 blog days behind, but I’m sure the clip’s still got some legs. So sure, people will hail it as “viral,” but can we really credit the success of a video so stacked with politically-conscience celebs to digital word of mouth?

Obviously Funny or Die doesn’t advertise nearly as much as any television network, thus the 100,000+ views the clip already has is due mostly to blogs, Twitter and, for the old folks, email. But was there ever a question of whether this thing would blow up? Is that a requirement for a video to “go viral”? Can it have a political “message”?

(Hat tip theduty)