Tonight’s Colbert Report pointed to a website I hadn’t heard of before: Livingroomcandidate.org, sort of an Internet Archive for presidential campaign commercials from 1952 to 2004.
Politics
Mashup: Nobody’s Perfect in Politics
Had fun with my latest mashup: Nobody’s Perfect in Politics, done to the counterpoint of Hannah Montana’s bubbly "Nobody’s Perfect," with appearances by Sen. Larry Craig, Mark Foley, Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, Alberto Gonzales, Dick Cheney, George Tenet, George W. Bush and others. I entered it in the DIY Video Summit political mashup contest (whose […]
Meeting Sen. John McCain
I secured a front row center seat for Wednesday’s appearance by Sen. John McCain at the AlwaysOn Innovation Summit. (The conference continues today with a live webcast.) I recorded his talk but only had time to post this 3 1/2 minute response to a question from the audience about Saudi Arabia and Pakistan’s role in […]
Watching the CNN YouTube debate
I’m watching the CNN-YouTube debate between the Democratic candidates for president, live on CNN now. (It’s also being streamed live on CNN.com.) I really do like the format, where more than 3,000 people from around the world — I was one of them — posed questions to the candidates. YouTubers will have a go at […]
How and why the right wing dominates talk radio
From the San Jose Mercury News earlier this week: How the right wing dominates talk radio. Excerpt: A report by the progressive (read liberal) Center for American Progress released last week concludes that 91 percent of weekday radio shows heard this spring were conservative, and 9 percent were progressive. That added up to 2,570 hours […]