In Compliance: TNGOP YouTube Not On Their Site — Never Was

By Kleinheider Posted on May 21, 2008 at 8:51 am

Sharon Cobb wants to know why the TNGOP’s “Proud” video is still “up” after Senator Corker asked that it be removed. Post Politics contacted Senator Corker’s office this morning and was told that they would be saying “nothing new” on the subject. TNGOP’s spokesman Bill Hobbs also had no comment on the situation.

One reason the video might still be up, however, is due to semantics. The Corker statement reads as follows:

“After the Republican National Committee damaged our campaign with their infamous ‘Call Me’ ad - which we immediately denounced - we have strongly encouraged the national party and state parties to absolutely refrain from getting involved in negative personal campaigning, and we have asked the state party to remove their You Tube ad from their Web site. Republicans will be in much better shape if we spend our time focused on issues like reducing federal spending, lowering the cost of health care and creating a coherent energy policy.”

Key words here are “their website” meaning, one would assume, the TNGOP website. And sure enough, the video is not there, never was.

Linked from there? Sure. Embedded there? No. The video is on YouTube’s website, the TNGOP’s channel, yes, but YouTube’s website.

So, if you wanted to parse words, which certain folks on both sides might be inclined to do, one could say that the TNGOP is technically in compliance with Senator Corker’s directive.

UPDATE: To be clear, neither the Office of Senator Bob Corker nor the TNGOP offered up the semantic argument. That argument is merely a hypothetical conjured up by your humble blogger.

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Tags: Barack Obama, Bill Hobbs, Bob Corker, Michelle Obama, Pride, TNGOP, YouTube  

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