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- atdigg, on 10/12/2007, -12/+68I'm sure they are going to convince kids who watch Youtube to vote Republican...
- FlaG8r, on 10/12/2007, -16/+62The more moderates see of Coulter, Malkin, O'Reilly and Hannity the better Democrats look by comparison.
- Ruckgesicht, on 10/12/2007, -14/+50Funny, I dugg your comment down for the same reason.
- chocobomog, on 10/12/2007, -22/+49 Ha, yea I doubt this will change their minds, but it doesn't matter because the real problem is convincing kids who watch Youtube to VOTE.
Anyways, call it what you want, but posting clips from Fox News is no different than posting clips from CNN or BBC. Heck, ThinkProgress posts videos of Fox News all of the time, but it appears to only be a problem when neocons do it. And Michelle Malkin and Ann Coulter videos have plenty of opposing videos to counter them on YouTube. Considering many 16 year olds have "strong" policital opinions and post videos declaring them, the neocons are probably outnumbered. Do a search for Bush or Republicans and see how many positive videos show up. Not to mention the absurd "conspiracy" videos that are posted which do not improve the nation's teens' intelligence.
Either way, it is still freedom of speech. Everyone is allowed to post whatever they want and you are not required to watch it. If you have a problem with it, go post a ranting video on YouTube. :) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -35/+59I just think it's funny that there are 8million (exaggerating, of course) Daily Show, Colbert and other similar videos on YouTube, but when the other side start mass posting videos, people start crying FOUL!
It's like a bunch of little children going "NO! This is MY playground! YOU GET OUT!"
I'll be SO glad once we move past the two-party *****. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+26Exactly.
I don't see anything wrong with posting political clips on YouTube, as long as they don't contain hate speech. If any of these do, they should be removed (this has happened before, and rightfully so). However, if they're just Republican "propaganda" without actually being racist hate, why aren't they allowed to post them there? Who cares? - Aooogah, on 10/12/2007, -7/+23Clearly the First Amendment is dead if people believe that those who disagree with them have no right to voice their opinion.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+23"We also noticed a few masochistic Islamonazis,
commonly known as trolls, among the subscribers.
To them, we say, we hope our clips raise your blood pressure enough to make your heads explode.
And if that does not work, you can always detonate a dynamite stick strategically placed, in suppository form. "
I about pissed myself laughing after reading this.
Name calling is so 3rd grade. - danakin, on 10/12/2007, -7/+21As a conservative, I can't stand Malkin, Coulter and O'Reilly...
- bobbybobington, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15Begun this youtube war has.
- spartan777, on 10/12/2007, -5/+17yes, but if someone said that about muhammed, people would (i'm not kidding or exagerating) kill. it happened to van gogh's descendant, many people were assassinated who were related to the publishing of a book critical of a historical detail in the Qu'ran.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Satanic_Verses_%28novel%29
yet, at worst Christians would burn some books, today Muslims assassinate, murder, call fatwas... - thekaempfer, on 10/12/2007, -7/+18Is it just me, or did they call us "masochistic Islamonazis"?
wow... - davidod87, on 10/12/2007, -7/+17And Borat! http://youtube.com/watch?v=elu1AxDHupA
- dono169, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Why is this spam?
It is valid content (that a lot of people want access to). - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14"Why not discuss the issue at hand"
Kinda hard on Digg whenever something that doesn't bash Bush, or the Republican party gets dugg down - neszis, on 10/12/2007, -8/+16And liberals don't spam Digg with anti-Bush propaganda?
- jaderobbins, on 10/12/2007, -26/+33and of course any comment pertaining to the other side of the debate gets dugg down. Liberals need to chill out and understand there are differing sides to any argument. while i understand there are super conservatives as well, it just seems that the general liberal population is getting more and more "militant" and closed minded.
- grizwald, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13The GOP could spam thousands of videos per day for the next 10 years and not even come close to keeping up with the far left organizations that do the same thing.
Besides .. everyone knows you kiddies don't vote anyway, it is sad but very true. Prove me wrong next election .. I bet 90% of you couldn't even name the candidates for the upcoming election in less than a month. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -25/+32ROFL, i cant believe im actually seeing an article about republican spin on YouTube. Are we talking about the same YouTube whose lifeblood is John Stewart, and whose daily "Most Viewed" always includes at least one "BUSH IS FASCIST!!!!!1" video?
- bigcurefan, on 10/12/2007, -7/+14For those of you not in the know, this came about as a direct result of youtube banning filmclips that the jihadis didn't like and complained about. Innocuous and factually truthful videos that exposed lies being perpetrated through the media regarding a number of events during the Israel / Hiz'bulla skurmish were taken down, while jihadi videos showing executions and IED explosions and TRUE hate speech are left online.
- concept, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9both sides do this..... look at digg.... the majority of stories posted by thinkprogress.org gets tons of diggs, while redstate.com, littlegreenfootballs.com etc. get very little diggs or get marked as spam/innacurate/burried.
thats just what I have noticed. - zensmile, on 10/12/2007, -12/+18Yeah... OK. Have you folks seen all of the Leftie garbage that is on Digg?! Pot meet Kettle. Jeez.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -13/+18That was also about 40 years ago. It's become almost fashionable to disparage Christianity nowdays whereas disparaging Islam is taboo.
- returnofmalv, on 10/12/2007, -9/+14"I don't see anything wrong with posting political clips on YouTube, as long as they don't contain hate speech."
So basically we need to remove the Coulter, Malkin, O'Reilly and Hannity clips. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Typical moonbat response.
- andrewrama, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7If only it were that simple.
- franksmith, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9This thread is the pot calling the kettle black
- RubeusEsclair, on 10/12/2007, -15/+20No conservative posts 800 Digg stories.
- pile0nades, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7If you don't like the videos, don't watch them.
- griz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7I am marking this as innacurate. Posting a bunch of videos that focus on your own opinion is exactly what YouTube is for.
You can't say it is spam just because you don't agree with it.
Go post your own videos and pipe down. - Fafnir43, on 10/12/2007, -6/+10Actually, I can't really see any difference between this and all the clips we upload from The Daily Show. I mean, granted, Malkin and Coulter are frothing and delusional where Jon Stewart is light and witty, and they're neocons while Jon is centrist, but that's it! They may be whackjobs, but they should be able to upload videos showcasing their "side" of the story just as much as we should.
- JohnM5, on 10/12/2007, -17/+21babakshirazi, I dugg you down because you ignorantly claim the "Digg website is crawling with liberal nutjobs who believe 9/11 was some kind of Bush conspiracy"
Which is just not true...Although Digg is very liberal, and is generally full intelligent people. What a surprise. - dmh11686, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8This is not propaganda, maybe this person just likes FoxNews like many do. Their videos seem to be from different networks, but mostly from FoxNews.
I don't get how this is even news, or even interesting. - rekrapt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5There is plenty of propaganda of all sorts on YouTube... all is fair is love, war and politics. (And Windows upgrades...)
- spartan777, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6ilyag;
i don't think hatespeech is a good thing, obviously, but if they were to start pulling "hate speech" videos, how could they define it? how could it not be abused, either by liberals, or conservatives, or anyone with an agenda? - ZWash300, on 10/12/2007, -8/+12Criticism of Bush isn't spam if it's true and backed up by facts.
Fox has a history of making claims without any supporting evidence. - snockhockster, on 10/12/2007, -6/+10"leftie garbage" = rhetoric
Why not discuss the issue at hand instead of espousing rhetoric?
Rhetoric is garbage, no matter what side you are on. - neszis, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6How clever.
- geekee, on 10/12/2007, -6/+9Fox is actually way more balanced than Digg. I can't stand Fox News, but given a choice between Fox News and Digg as a sole news source, I'd have to pick Fox News. Digg is a pathetic source of world news.
- Daiken, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8Although I don't like it, I don't care very much. Since no one is forced to watch them, and probably only those who already share their mindset will watch them, it doesn't affect me much. Sadly, I get pissed off more at all the pro bush supporters we have on Digg who mark every truthful unbiased criticism against Bush as being "inaccurate", and digg down anyone's comments which don't support their cause.
- pile0nades, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5@zoom1928
Your congressman said that? Then he's a dumbass. - Denver80203, on 10/12/2007, -10/+13They can voice it all they like.. just not here. I seem to recall the "free speech zones" or whatever they called them during the GOP convention which was a policed area with 12 foot fences under a bypass. "protest all you want as long as it's here" the told us.
Back at ya. - cclasby, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"The difference here, I think, is that a lot of the "leftie" videos are posted by individuals expressing an opinon, and many feel that the ones concerning the opposing side are fed en masse by a sparse few attempting to feed people opinion."
Foreword: I am not a Neocon.
But...saying that if something is from the Left it is from an "individual expressing an opinion," whereas anything from the Rght is en masse "feed[ing]" opinion is just a sad case of rhetorical confusion. Personally, I have the same view on ***** no matter which side it comes from. Re-examine your preconceptions... - zenothestoic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Yeah, Democrats make Emily Post look like a drunken sailor on shore leave.
- Barbrady, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Maybe somebody should start a topic called "Liberals spam Digg with LouRockwell, ThinkProgress, Olberman, Stewart, Hugo Chavez, etc. articles"
- Aooogah, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4@denver: I'm not saying the GOP are saints. The fact of the matter is that both parties are guilty of reducing the freedom of speech clause in First Amendment to "you have the right to say something as long as I agree." That is not what freedom of speech is about.
- MacsBaine, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Buried for wrong topic. This should be political opinion at best.
- cclasby, on 10/12/2007, -7/+9No one listens to Ann Coulter. But I think she is hot.
- spyres, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7I'm pretty embarrassed for anyone who think using the term "moonbat" is cool or funny.
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