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Title: YouTube has Republicans on the run: GOP claims that YouTube is biased show how out of touch with the people Republicans are.
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The Guardian
URL Source: http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk ... lican_fraidycats_run_from.html
Published: Jul 31, 2007
Author: Jeff Jarvis
Post Date: 2007-07-31 15:12:13 by aristeides
Keywords: None
Views: 209
Comments: 9
YouTube has Republicans on the run GOP claims that YouTube is biased show how out of touch with the people Republicans are. July 31, 2007 6:20 PM The Republicans are, I believe, making a gigantic mistake in running away, scared, from the internet. They're running away from voters - and their money. The latest indication of their fear of the internet is their attempt to fink out on the YouTube/CNN Republican debate. The party line - as we see from Rush Limbaugh and others - is that YouTube is biased. That's patently absurd. That would be like the Democrats saying that mail is biased because the Republicans made the first and best use of it. If internet video is biased, it is a damned bad sign for the right and mighty strange considering the leading work done in the medium by the conservatives in the UK, France, and Germany. Oh, and TechPresident went to audience research and found that there are more Republicans than Democrats on YouTube anyway. Conservative talkshow blogger, Hugh Hewitt, frets that listening to YouTube will open up Republicans to cheap shots. That's merely convenient paranoia. They're looking for excuses to stay away from this dance. The Republicans are scared of the internet. They are scared of us. Rudy Giuliani has exhibited chronic digiphobia, running away from the internet and from interacting with voters there at every opportunity. Hell, his MySpace page is still private. The impact of this neglect and disdain is clear in Giuliani's pathetic internet fundraising. Patrick Ruffini, former Giuliani internet guy (we can see why that's former), frets that the Republicans will be outraised by $100m because of this attitude. (Ruffini just started a blog petition to save the debate.) Meanwhile, Mitt Romney is sniffing snottily at the quality of the questions on YouTube - from citizens. John McCain has been stiff and scared in his videos. Sam Brownback has hardly made any videos and the ones he has made are as stiff as a Kansas silo. The entire party has left the internet to Ron Paul. And he has taken it and run. In the end, this is not only short-sighted tactically but also essentially insulting to the American people. We are on the internet. Come talk with us. What, you're too scared to? Big, tough terrorists don't scare you but we do? Come on, boys, we don't bite. But we do vote. Anyway, the Republicans can't escape talking with us. ABC News is going to use video questions from the people.
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#1. To: wbales, lodwick, Brian S, palo verde, Eoghan, Dakmar, Critter (#0)
Hell, his MySpace page is still private. The impact of this neglect and disdain is clear in Giuliani's pathetic internet fundraising. It's that internet thingy getting in the way again.
Ron Paul for President
I hope the Pubbies let Ron Paul have the entire Internet segment of voters.
the pubes show us more and more each day how irrelevant and passe' they've become.
See my post: http://freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=58322&Disp=0
Bunch of internet bums ... grand jury --- opium den ! ~ byeltsin
When I saw Julie-on-ee (yea thats right) a you tube banner for three days I got tired of it. So I clicked it weent to his channel and blocked him...unfortunitly it did not remove the banner...Oh well. I can only hope his internet lacky told him and made him even more scared of the net.
hey, welcome to 4, titorite.
welcome to 4.. glad you joined us.
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That's good, bump to video
Ron Paul for President
The latest indication of their fear of the internet is their attempt to fink out on the YouTube/CNN Republican debate.
#2. To: aristeides, palo verde (#0)
Big, tough terrorists don't scare you but we do? Come on, boys, we don't bite. But we do vote.
#3. To: Fred Mertz, aristeides, Minerva, robin (#2)
#4. To: christine (#3)
#5. To: aristeides (#0)
#6. To: titorite (#5)
Julie-on-ee
#7. To: titorite (#5)
#8. To: christine (#6)
#9. To: christine, titorite (#6)
Julie-on-ee
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