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  

You’re Welcome

By Kleinheider Posted on April 23, 2008 at 11:55 am

WSMV reporter Cara Kumari discusses how convenient it is for her as a reporter to find legislative happenings she may have missed on YouTube:

Recently, Wilder announced his retirement while I was on my honeymoon.  I was able to watch the whole thing with a click of the mouse.

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Tags: John Shelton Wilder, Media, Tennessee State Legislature, YouTube  

The Change In The Game

By Kleinheider Posted on April 18, 2008 at 3:05 pm

National Journal explores the new dynamic blogs and viral video have given political campaigns:

Campaigns understand that the quirky electronic new-media platforms can easily spark coverage or help candidates play defense against rivals. Online news aggregators collect establishment reporting but are willing to be guided by what’s popular. Many blogs mix opinion with reporting and analysis. And a handful of cliquish, minutia-obsessed political websites follow hour-by-hour developments in polling, horse race predictions, and he-said/she-said sparring among rival candidates.

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Tags: blogs, the Internet as a destructive force in civil discourse, YouTube