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[eirias]

From a schmaltzy fan video to a totally hilarious attack ad. I gotta say, I kinda love what YouTube is doing for politics.

On the use of "like".

ETA (11:34): Another good political link: Chris Dodd's stirring FISA rant. Thanks, trygve, for passing it on. Also, a related rant from Glenn Greenwald.

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[blimix.livejournal.com]

Like, JSTOR JustSTORes the article, but is a JeSTOR and, like, won't serve it to me, 'cuz I'm not, like, a member.

[eirias.livejournal.com]

Hey man, your use of the word is, like, totally bogus!

I was able to follow the JSTOR link from somewhere else, which usually doesn't work on our secure university resources for some reason, so I assumed it was freely available. Whoops! If you want, I can email you a copy -- I think I should be able to get a pdf. :)

[blimix.livejournal.com]

Sure, I'll take e-mail. I'm just more used to seeing, "The site requires a login, so I've pasted the relevant sections behind a cut..."

[eirias.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I just feel better about the copyright violation of sending it to one person than I do about the copyright violation of posting it broadly on the internet. (Not that I think either should be a violation if it was publicly funded research....! sigh.)

[ex-miang438.livejournal.com]

totally hilarious attack ad

That was AMAZING. And I wholeheartedly agree re: YouTube love.

[marphod.livejournal.com]

Don't have aJSTOR account. Can you summarize?

[corydoras.livejournal.com]

I love those youtube ads. Esp. the attack ad... "like hope, but different." HAHAHA.

Also the FISA rants are fascinating. Interesting that Hillary didn't place a vote on the immunity amendment.

[ksledgemoore.livejournal.com]

I laughed out loud -- for a while -- after seeing the McCain video. Thank you so much for posting it! I also agree that the Obama "yes we can" video was quite schmaltzy. People were all, "omg, this is the best video evar!" but I thought it was just ok...could have been shortened a bit.

[trygve.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I totally loved both of those videos, I thought they were brilliant.

A friend of mine linked to this scathing article on Clinton (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/opinion/10rich.html?_r=2&%20%3Cbr%20/%3E_r=1&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin). It made some interesting points about how Clinton blew a ton of money on a faux town hall full of softball questions, and lacking in viewers, while Obama got far more publicity for this "Yes We Can" song that his campaign didn't have to spend a dime on.