Comments on: Obama wins YouTube vote, hands down

By: oakling

oakling — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 02:17:25 +0000

Yeah - are they SURE the person who produced it was a SUPPORTER?

I love the description of it because that is exactly how I think of her and I didn’t even realize it. 50 year old schmoozing guy cluelessly hitting on the 20 year olds. Holy crap, she’s my dad!

By: Safran

Safran — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:24:56 +0000

I believe this is part of an elaborate right wing conspiracy to extort money from the Hillary campaign. “Give us $5 million, or will make something even worse!”

By: El Dangeroso

El Dangeroso — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:37:16 +0000

Yeah. I take all my political advice from a guy named “Every Internet Game - Online Games” who doesn’t use his shift key.

By: Every Internet Game - Online Games

Every Internet Game - Online Games — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:42:27 +0000

in general. hillary is better for the democrats
she has more experience, and that is what america needs now.

By: discreet_chaos

discreet_chaos — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:13:06 +0000

Thanks Curtis. I’ve seen this clip linked around and it almost always comes back to something similar to the linked blogpost; “she came off as the 50 year old guy who inexplicably spends most evenings trying to schmooze with twentysomethings at the club”.

Which now, thanks to your link, perhaps we know why.

By: Curtis

Curtis — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:18:46 +0000

The backstory to this video can be found in the article attached to this comment.

The creator is a dedicated fan named Gene Wang, no official capacity with the campaign beyond volunteering around the election.

[excerpt from the article] ” In his jacket pocket was further evidence of his dedication: a DVD of the YouTube video he created last year, “Hillary4U&Me.”

By: Olsen

Olsen — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:42:55 +0000

Any thought that some Obama staffers put this one together? Just asking.

By: cory

cory — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:21:27 +0000

Good point, discreet. The Clinton campaign may have had no control over this clip. I’m sure we’ll hear more about this in the next day or two.

By: discreet_chaos

discreet_chaos — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:12:55 +0000

I don’t know the history of this clip, but bloggers and commenters everywhere have been trying to lay it on the doorstep of the campaign, but it bears no officila markings. It doesn’t have the “paid for” message at the end; It’s from what appears to be an unaffiliated YouTube account which has only uploaded this video (four months ago)

LR is always going-on about user-generated content and how mainstream media should open themselves up. Perhaps with this video, we can see one of the pitfalls of unpoliced content. After all, a video was uploaded to YouTube and mainstream blogs have generally seemed careful to say “Hillary supporters”, but apparently many of those commenting don’t know the difference.

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:32:58 +0000

I do note that comments on the Hillary video have been disabled. That is the Clinton way, it seems.

By: discreet_chaos

discreet_chaos — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:27:05 +0000

Yeah, but the blonde’s kind of cute.