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I can make a guarantee

LonewackoDotCom — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:25:39 -0400

A video that confronts a candidate with a lie and that leaves them stammering for an answer would - without a doubt in the world - catch on big as long as it was promoted a bit using Digg, Reddit, blogs, etc. etc.

The simplest embarassing question anyone can ask Obama right now is, "why did you lie about LouDobbs? You said he supports MassDeportations, but he doesn't. Will you retract your earlier statement?" I guarantee that if someone goes to his appearances and just concentrates on asking that one simple question, gets a response, and uploads and promotes it it will have a great impact and get tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of views. It might even be linked by Drudge or be played on cable TV.

Wimpy questions that simply result in stock speeches will never do good, but tough questions that result in making a candidate look bad will be tremendously popular and will have a great impact.

old media politics!

paulcanning — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:06:55 -0400

This made me laugh! because Tony Benn, the British left-wing MP of long standing, has been doing this for fifty years using the oldest technology imaginable! I've experienced it - he records everything so he has a record and he's far less likely to be misquoted plus he records a diary every night. What comes around ...

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For every video that makes it, there are hundreds that don't

Michael Tate — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:11:15 -0400

LonewackoDotCom,

What catches and what doesn't? For every video that causes a "Bittergate" there are probably hundreds that do not catch but could.

Should I laugh or cry?

LonewackoDotCom — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:58:42 -0400

The first video has 119 views after being online since July of last year. In contrast, out of about 50 videos in 3 accounts, I only have two that have fewer views, and that's because they're recent and I didn't promote one and barely promoted the other. One of my anti-Huck videos (youtube.com/watch?v=1KxDhesWutc) has over 50,000 views, and that's just a question for him, it doesn't involve one of his appearances. The other video is a little better at almost 7000, but even Mike Gravel has done better than that.

And, the questions were meaningless and simply resulted in their stock speeches. If Tancredo wanted to sink his opponents, he should have sent people to their appearances to point out how they were lying or to ask them "prosecutorial-style" questions pointing out the flaws in their proposals and the like.

See my other videos and the questions at NoMoreBlather.com for how this should have been done.