In an interview with Fox News in which he compared the recent negotiations process to a car sale, with Republicans being the salesmen and Obama the hapless buyer unwilling to get tough at the bargaining table, Capuano explained the 2012 landscape.
The clip is the latest in a long line of marketing hits, which has included posters, theatrical trailers and a long string of very advanced Reynolds interviews, including one in which he compared his character to Han Solo and Indiana Jones.
Last year, Faisal Husseini, a decided moderate among Yasir Arafat's leadership ranks, gave an interview not long before he died in which he compared Oslo to a Trojan horse, an intermediate, tactical step leading to the elimination of Israel.
And he also popped up on BBC Radio 4's Today programme for a short interview in which he was asked what difference readers would find in today's i compared to those on the newsstands last week.
But Bachmann's fear of Judgment Day is hardly shocking when compared to Justice Scalia's recent interview in which he discussed his belief in the Devil.
"I compare songwriting to fishing: There's either a fish in the boat, or there's not," Petty said in that final interview, in which he expressed enthusiasm about various future projects.
The answer was a disappointing twist in an interview in which she highlighted the unique skills a female candidate could bring to the Oval Office when compared with the men in the race.
In 1996 he gave an interview to the Advocate, an LGBT magazine, in which he endorsed gay marriage, comparing it to his own second wedding, to the singer Patti Scialfa: "It's very different than just living together.
Kanye West was recently forced to deny taking part in a fake interview, during which he allegedly compared himself to Nelson Mandela.
Johnson made his own chaotic contribution last week, during a BBC Radio interview, when he compared future controls at the Irish border to collecting traffic-congestion charges in London, which is accomplished with an E-ZPass-like system.
