by Nicole Powers

Arnold Schwarzenegger may have moved over to the dark side when he came out as a Republican and decided to take California, but MoveOn.org is fighting back with a little help from The Terminator. In the organization’s latest interweb broadcast, Olivia Wilde (House) travels back in time Sarah Connor-style to rally resistance against the G.O.P machine and the omnipresent Faux News Network that supports it.





The Terminator parody, which offers a chilling vision of a future where Sarah Palin is President, is written by Michael Pielocick of The Onion and MoveOn’s Creative Director, Laura Dawn. The team wrote the screenplay with Wilde in mind for the lead. “I just thought she had the exact right mix of intelligence and beauty, a la Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2,” says Dawn. “She looks like she could drop-kick some Blackwater Clonebots and she’s smart as hell. I sent her the script and she said yes immediately, so we were super thrilled to have her!”

The viewer serves as Wilde’s co-star in the state-of-the-art interactive short thanks to MoveOn’s smart use of Facebook’s Connect utility. Normally I’d be wary of allowing third parties to access my Facebook info, but MoveOn promise not to share it with the likes of Skynet. And since the resistance is fighting against RupubliCorp’s seemingly unstoppable cyborgs, it’s really worth it in this case since – come November 2nd – the future of the free world is in your hands…