Filed under: Online Video
If you don’t board the train, you’re gonna be stuck in the station…
Filed under: Health Care
Not content that their health-care reform bill is dying quickly enough, Democrats now apparently want to rename it after Ted Kennedy. Isn’t the label “KennedyCare” one of the things that KILLED the bill last time around? And how many Southern conservative Blue Dogs are going to be able to support any bill that bears Kennedy’s name – even in the sympathetic days after his passing? In other words, bring on the “KennedyCare” moniker!
Still, not to be deterred, a source tells me that staffers in Speaker Pelosi’s office have wallpapered their cubicles with this new inspirational poster:
Bonus:
Filed under: Energy / Environment, Government Spending, Online Video | Tags: cash for clunkers, corvette
Killing a perfectly good Corvette — for Cash for Clunkers…
How exactly is this a productive use of our tax dollars again? Couldn’t this car have provided somebody with a relatively cool and low-cost means of transportation for several more years?
Once again, online video covers a part of the story that the mainstream media won’t.
Filed under: Online Video
Here’s a great online video from a nonprofit named charity: water that aims to help provide clean drinking water to people in the world’s poorest communities.
The video works so well because of the deeply emotional connection it makes with viewers through the coordinated use of stirring music, video of the kids and dirty water in Africa, and most importantly, the simple telling of its story and mission. The group’s founder and president, Scott Harrison, builds an intimacy with the viewer, sitting before a plain black backdrop, looking directly into the camera and sincerely telling a story in which he obviously believes and to which he has dedicated this part of his life.
This is the kind of thing every non-profit organization — whether political or not — should be doing to build supporters and donors. Those who don’t think they can afford it will discover they really can’t afford not to.
Famous DC recently checked the status of the two parties’ online efforts. The whole post is here, but check out how far ahead the GOP is re: online video:
YouTubing:
RNC | Video views, 3,029,701
DNC | Video views, 1,743,103
NRCC | Video views, 1,613,299
DCCC | Video views, 700,236
And that doesn’t even count individual Members of Congress like Republican Tom Price, who recently broke a million views with this relatively dry committee markup health-care rant. When even videos like Price’s – which contains absolutely no bells or whistles – goes viral, you know the energy is incredibly high on the Right these days.
Filed under: Online Video
As the Left attempts to paint a bunch of jean-shorts-wearing anti-ObamaCare protestors as a fake “Brooks Brothers Astroturf Brigade,” check out the crowd at last night’s Obama grassroots campaign rally in Northern Virginia:
Filed under: Energy / Environment
Mark your calendars for the Oct. 18 premiere of Not Evil Just Wrong, a documentary that exposes the real cost of global warming alarmism. Better yet, host your own premiere!
Word comes this morning that the Washington Post has killed its Mouthpiece Theater video series after last Friday’s clip sparked outrage when the two hosts essentially called Hillary Clinton a “mad bitch.” In case you missed it, here’s a summary of the controversy from Politico, as well as an absolutely brilliant and devastating online video that helped bring the Post to its knees.
In the “Ménage à Stella Artois” episode — panned by the Columbia Journalism Review’s blog — the Post reporters discuss the “beer summit,” offering comical suggestions on what beers leading political figures would drink.
While Milbank and Cillizza mock figures on both sides of the aisle, and themselves — they’d take Jackass Oatmeal Stout — their beer suggestion for the Secretary of State could prompt charges of sexism.
Both Talking Points Memo and Media Matters have seized upon the part where Hillary Clinton’s face is on the screen, while Milbank says, “we won’t tell you who’s getting a bottle of ‘Mad Bitch’ beer.”
Hopefully at some point soon, Washington Post reporters will, you know, start actually reporting the news — instead of acting like buffoons auditioning to be the next Jon Stewart or Bill Maher. Because we already have too many of those.
This piece in this morning’s Washington Post is nothing short of breathtaking. In other words, it fairly, accurately and honestly reports the regret that many people are now feeling about casting their votes for Obama last fall.
Read the whole thing, but just check out some of the language – this kind of stuff has never appeared in the mainstream media before this morning:
“The coffee was still brewing when Chris Ann Cleland got her first reminder of the day that voting for Barack Obama might have been a mistake.”
“For Cleland, it was another example – one of many this day – of the broken promises of a president who she thought would be different.”
“He’s just not as advertised… I feel like I’ve been punked.”
“I haven’t come across one person who’s been helped.”
“The most stark evidence of Obama’s failure…”
