Los Angeles Times staff writer James Rainey has an article today taking a look at the lack of love for John McCain on YouTube compared to the multiple hosannas found when searching for videos of the Obamessiah:
Search "John McCain" on YouTube and you'll find the latest broadside, by Brave New Films of Culver City, and a lot more that's not good for a candidate who's built his reputation on constancy and authenticity.
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Six of the top 10 videos returned by a "John McCain" YouTube search Thursday pegged the 71-year-old as inconsistent, extreme, wooden or a combination of the three. (The one clearly favorable piece came from the McCain campaign and focused on his Navy service.)
Contrast that with a YouTube search of "Barack Obama." It's a swoon fest, with virtually all of the top entries featuring the Illinois senator at his eloquent, uplifting best. The videos range from the pop-icon worship of Scarlett Johansson and John Legend & Co. in "Yes We Can" (closing in on 13 million views) to a clip of the candidate's speech on race after the explosion over the controversial sermons of his onetime pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.
For a video-sharing site with more scrutiny of the Illinois senator, check out NewsBusters sister site EyeBlast.tv.
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So what.
May 30, 2008 - 10:19 ET by FoolicanWhat's new. Young people are more attracted to coattail "what's in" rather than have to think for themselves. Old white men are out, articulate and handsome black men are in.
Well, there was a candidate in the Republican primaries...
May 30, 2008 - 14:29 ET by sarcasmoWho, by the way, happened to be old & white & male, and for some strange reason (like maybe, his shrink-government ideas?) young people made all sorts of YouTube videos about him. But the Republican party, which is now confused about "why's there no love on YouTube?" ignored the phenomenon at the time (when they weren't busy insulting the young people who'd been attracted by the ideas) with predictable results. Why, it's almost like ideas matter or something...
JMR
The tax & spend drug war looks racist in the real world.
Couple choices
May 30, 2008 - 19:19 ET by FoolicanFred Thompson, you mean?
Or Ron Paul, even?
Well, think about it...
May 31, 2008 - 07:03 ET by sarcasmoWas Fred the one that young people treated like a rock star, or was Dr. Paul the one who, in their own words, "cured my apathy!"?? Which one excited the young people an ancient & dying Republican Party, at least around here, desperately-needs, rather than just exciting older NB denizens who seem to have all attended 0 meetings, 0 speeches, and written pretty-much 0 checks to their favored sleepwalking candidate?
Or nevermind just YouTube. Ask yourself which old white Republican male, who isn't a great speaker, literally DOMINATED Meetup, MySpace, and Facebook while he was dominating YouTube stats; kicking the asses of not just all his Republican competition but of Democrats like Barak Obama & Hillary Clinton? :) I just find this sudden: "Duh, where's all the love on YouTube for McCain?" stuff from partisan Republicans a bit amusing, because it was never there. Again, because it's worth repeating: It's almost as if government-shrinking ideas* matter.
JMR
* And I have an example of a dumb idea vs a good idea for shrinking government. Tell the next cute young waitress you see that she has a choice: She can have either a temporary federal gasoline tax holiday for the duration of this election season, or a PERMANENT ban on the IRS ever getting their grubby meathooks into her tips again, and see for yourself which idea gets the cute young waitress more excited?
The tax & spend drug war looks racist in the real world.
I suspect, Ken, that the LA Times was drawing a contrast ..
May 30, 2008 - 13:59 ET by Gary HallI suspect, Ken, that Rainey at LA Times was drawing a contrast .. between what he found at YouTube, "Mostly Harsh on McCain, Gauzy on Obama," and what is found on the pages on the LA Times, "Mostly Harsh on McCain, Cheerleaders for Obama."
This guy thinks it's a
May 30, 2008 - 14:52 ET by upcountrywaterThis guy thinks it's a democratic take over
This godlette dude will be our CIC
I'm still voting for arrgg mccain just maybe susan suranrap will leave.
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IranianUranium
Such a shock from the site that brings us Jihad videos
May 31, 2008 - 06:52 ET by True_SoldierThis is no surprise at all. Youtube will not pull Jihad propaganda videos (even after Joe Lieberman asked them to), but put anything on there that says anything bad about Islam and it will be removed as "Islamaphbic Content".
You tube is a joke.