Last Friday, I suggested that the prologue to Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia be featured ahead of Olympics coverage. But I’ve changed my mind after seeing this montage created by L.A.’s Cinefamily (the gang behind the recently revitalized Silent Movie Theater) & Pimpedelic Wonderland for a 4th of July event last month. It clearly says everything there is to say about America, and it would certainly pump us up adequately for patriotically rooting for the U.S. teams. Plus, unlike like Olympia, it’s not made by Nazis; like Olympia, though, it has nudity!

The only thing possibly more appropriately American than this video is Entertainment Weekly’s new interviews with Barack Obama and John McCain about their pop culture preferences, a feature that finally allows us to make up our minds based on things more fun than “important issues”. I don’t know about you, but I’d never vote for anybody who honestly thinks We Were Soldiers is the best Vietnam movie of all time. Thanks, EW, for keeping me from making a terrible mistake on Election Day.