May 23, 2008
How YouTube Ruined John McCain’s Week
Anti-McCain coverage has been viral on the Net this week, with suppossed lobbyist ties and contradictory statements fueling the fire.
MoveOn.org has begun airing an ad campaign on YouTube aptly titled, “McCain: Fire Charlie Black". The video calls on Sen. McCain to fire his chief adviser, lobbyist Charlie Black, who has recently been linked to dictators. The video, posted last Thursday, has been viewed more than 69,000 times.
Campaign Money Watch, a project of the nonpartisan nonprofit reform group Public Campaign Action Fund, has created “Fire the Lobbyists.com” where they have posted a YouTube video condemning McCain’s lobbyist ties</a>. Viewers can download the ‘lobbyist’ song accompanying the video as a ringtone and sign an online petition calling for McCain’s campaign to sever ties with lobbyists.
Continuing to haunt Sen. McCain is Brave New Film’s Robert Greenwald, who is the mastermind behind the YouTube series, “The Real McCain”. The video, which highlights perceived contradictory statements made by McCain, has been viewed more than 1.1 million times, an impressive number for McCain’s usual YouTube stats.
Posted by Buzz Webster at May 23, 2008 06:30 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
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