In this week's videos, Mike Huckabee stays consistent on taxes, the (Not the) Daily Show stays funny despite the writer's strike, Tom Tancredo strikes with an over-the-top ad, Rudy Giuliani makes controversial use of old imagery of New York, and more. Read on after the jump. You know you want to.

It’s our favorite political videos of the week! Watch as Fred Thompson dismisses a simple question from a simple citizen, complicated cookies are explained nice and easy, Barack Obama struts his stuff on Ellen, Hillary Clinton stumbles on the driver’s license issue, and the Daily Show asks the most important question facing America today.

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It's Friday, which means it's time for our weekly list of our favorite online political videos. Some of these videos have begun to go viral and spread around the web; others are here because we think they're well-produced pieces of online media.

After the jump, look out for some bizarre Icelandic rapping about Iraq; Fred Thompson asking a crowd to applause for him; and a scary deconstruction of Hillary Clinton's laughing fits.

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More Debate Post-Mortem

It's two days after the CNN/YouTube debate and the analysis is still coming in. Adam Cohen at the New York Times has generally high praise for the event, noting that the questions had "had an authentic feel that is too often lacking in the scripted words of paid professionals," and that -- shock! -- "bringing the people into democracy is a healthy thing." He also agrees with us that the "questions could become even more real in future debates, if the organizers drop the filtering and let YouTube users pick the questions." Amen.

Cohen's colleague at the Times, Katharine Seelye, notes that although Monday's debate drew a smaller audience than June's Democratic in New Hampshire, it drew "what CNN said was the biggest audience since measurements began in 1992 for a cable news debate of those between 18 and 34, the demographic most coveted by advertisers." Call me crazy, but it's a pretty good guess that the YouTube part was what drew young folks in.

The Daily Show, as expected, delivered the definitive analysis of the CNN/YouTube debate. You have got to see it. Check it out here.