I went on the Democratic Underground*this evening to see what they had to say about Bubba's Fox News performance. Boy, is that a weird site -- folks there definitely in liberal mootbat land. Anyway, here's the most recent post re the Clinton interview. (*far left (as in lunatic fringe) liberal blog)
DeepModem Mom (1000+ posts)
Mon Sep-25-06 08:01 PM
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CLINTON MAY HAVE FREAKED ON FOX, BUT HE KILLED ON YOUTUBE! Refresh | 9 Recommendations
September 25, 2006, 1:06 pm
Clinton Cleans FOX’s Clock . . . on YouTube!
While Howie Kurtz and Drudge get all OMG and eye-rolling, and tell us that Bill Clinton was some kind of American Idol flop on FOX yesterday, they totally miss the point.
Clinton may have freaked out on FOX, but on YouTube, he killed. He cleaned the FOX clock. (UPDATE: YouTube removed the video. Here’s another link: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=902612071699997... )
It was a perfect three-minute aria of fury: Gore-like (heh) in its understanding of the third screen, the insta-fury, the clip fit, the sheen of spontaneity and socking it to the cable prigs live. Drudge called Clinton “purple-faced,” because he wasn’t cool in a cool medium — television.
But YouTube isn’t a cool medium. In fact, YouTube uploaders, who started and ended the clip their own way, had their own names for the performance: “Bill Clinton Smacks Down Fox News,” “President Clinton Fights Back” and “Bill Clinton Kicks the Crap Out of Fox News.”
Hey, politicians: on YouTube, where an interview isn’t buffered by 24 hours of FOX spin and right-wing talking points, ideological saturation is no longer the goal. An explosion of emotion is what online video is all about....Clinton has somehow mastered the bright, short words and menacing, iconic lurches that work as bursts of flavor on YouTube. He also knows how to curse without cursing. Check it out: “a bunch of bull . . . move your bones . . . wag the dog . . . battle plans . . . a Muslim warlord . . . not a living soul . . . nice little conservative hit job.”...And he said he tried to get bin Laden, tried to kill-kill kill bin Laden, and read Dick Clarke’s book and you’ll see what he did, and FOX and all the double-standard right-wing smirkers can just kiss his grits....
http://screens.blogs.nytimes.com/?p=81#more-81
I'm still trying to figure out how Bubba was a "flop" on Fox, but somehow "killed" Fox and "cleaned their clock" on YouTube. Um, excuse me 'DeepModem Mom', how could that be? -- it was the same interview. You see, people Tivo'd the interview from Fox and uploaded it to YouTube. So, apart from editing the video, whether you saw the interview on Fox or YouTube, you were seeing the same thing. So, unless you're taking some powerful anti-psychotic meds (or maybe failing to take those meds!) it's not really possible to "lose" in one forum and "win" when a tape of the loss is played in another forum. (Just an fyi).
Oh, and what's with the upside down American flag icon? I guess that's your way of "speaking truth to power". I bet you've got a cool T-shirt like that too -- do you wear it when your Che Guevara T-shirt's in the wash?
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