Mash-Up Mischief In Campaign Videos
February 25, 2007, 5:39pm
Direct video messages to voters are all the rage at the outset of the 2008 presidential campaign, but the latest video by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York demonstrates that the strategy has its risks. Slapping video up on the Internet for everyone to share may mean that critics of the candidates may use the video in ways never intended.
A case in point: Clinton’s new “Roadmap Out Of Iraq,” the first episode of a promised series of issue-oriented HillCasts.
Clinton’s video was out only a couple of days before conservative blogger Michelle Malkin took a critical look at the message and redrew Clinton’s roadmap with her own video commentary. After Clinton spoke of her recent trip to Iraq talk with troops “who are fighting so heroically,” for instance, Malkin added that the trip came before Clinton leads “the abandoning of their mission.”
It’s not the first time that a Clinton critic has remixed one of her online videos, and it won’t be the last. And odds are good that all of the other leading presidential candidates can expect the same kind of treatment. Welcome to presidential politics in the YouTube era — a trend that AirCongress is tracking, along with sites like PrezVid and techPresident.
Categories: New York, Iraq, Sen. Hillary Clinton, Presidency 2008, Hillary Clinton
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February 25th, 2007 at 6:48 pm
Liberals hate it when their words follow them around.
February 25th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
There has been no one in America the last 80 years more deserving of a Pulitzer than Michelle Malkin. She and her folk are on top of what is going on and understand its significance better than anyone in the Media has since WW1,
February 26th, 2007 at 2:24 pm
Looks like EVERY candidate’s going to be running a create-your-own-ad contest, whether they want to or not.
February 26th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
Hill, honey, I’m thinking…. I’m thinking NEWT RUDY!!!!!!!!!!!!
February 26th, 2007 at 6:01 pm
MICHELLE MALKIN FOR PRESIDENT!