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Year-old viral video resurfaces amid budget debate: taxing and spending causes U.S. fall to China

By | 03.23.11 | 10:13 am

Congress is still fighting over how to fix the federal budget, and as a form of inspiration, perhaps, conservative “taxpayer watchdog” group Citizens Against Government Waste is resurfacing a video ad it created a year ago that went viral.

Anti-abortion groups offering students money prizes to make anti-Planned Parenthood videos

By | 03.04.11 | 4:04 pm

One of the biggest accusations promulgated to support why Planned Parenthood is “evil” and should be stripped of all federal funding is that the health care provider supposedly helps pimps get away with trafficking underage girls.

This oft-repeated statement received a revival recently thanks to the work of anti-abortion rights More…

Protesters: Send Illegal Immigrants Home ‘With a Bullet in the Head’

By | 08.11.09 | 6:11 pm

It sure is getting to be a hot summer. And the town hall protesters are turning up the heat: they’ve gone from objecting to a national health care plan to wanting to shoot illegal immigrants in the head — and then deport them.

ConsiderThisNews has the video of protesters in More…

ACLU Report Documents Serious Problems With U.S. Restrictions on Muslim Charities

By | 06.16.09 | 10:07 am

The American Civil Liberties Union just issued this report (with this neat YouTube video accompanying it) on the range of problems created by the U.S. government’s crackdown on Muslim charities suspected of supporting terrorism since 9/11.

The report, “Blocking Faith, Freezing Charity” picks up on More…

Breaking: Obama Votes — on YouTube

By | 11.04.08 | 2:20 pm

Sen. Barack Obama’s vote was recorded, broadcast, reported and blogged in real time. His campaign still turned the footage into one of the fastest ads of this campaign, cutting a simple GOTV web ad that is already moving around YouTube:

Obama Speaks About his Grandmother’s Death

By | 11.04.08 | 9:10 am

Sen. Barack Obama took a few moments to discuss his grandmother’s death on the campaign trail on Monday, and then he swiftly returned to focusing his message on closing arguments and GOTV.

His campaign also released a statement to traveling reporters, but otherwise avoided the topic on Monday night. More…

Obama Breaks YouTube Records in Homestretch

By | 11.03.08 | 6:00 am

If you upload it, they will watch it.

That was the simple premise of the Obama campaign’s dramatic intensification of its YouTube outreach in the homestretch of this long race.

New data shows the campaign’s official YouTube channel is breaking records, topping 2 million viewers a day at its peak.  More…

Obama Rallies the YouTube Vote

By | 10.31.08 | 8:45 am

The Obama campaign is intensifying its YouTube outreach in the closing days of the election, stacking its official channel with as many as 10 new, high-quality videos a day.

Some spots are short, upbeat videos aiming for mass appeal. This week’s viral hit, “Make History,” for example, broke into More…

Obama Deploys Robot to Fight Ayers Attack (Video)

By | 10.31.08 | 6:01 am

Maybe there’s too much caffeine coursing through the Obama campaign’s new media department. Or maybe they’ve just had it with Sen. John McCain’s robocalls about Bill Ayers.

The latest item on Sen. Barack Obama’s official YouTube channel is a wacky, dorky, irreverent video titled, really, “Robots Attack!

Wonder why they More…

Big Dog for Obama

By | 10.30.08 | 10:25 am

“This man should be our president,” former President Bill Clinton told a boisterous, late-night rally for Sen. Barack Obama in Florida on Wednesday.

After the famous infomercial had aired — and while the pundits still traded their meta-analysis on cable news — Clinton made a strong case for why Obama More…