Despite InsiderAdvantage’s insistent belief that virtually nobody in America watched Obama’s “Victory” speech, let alone was the slightest bit impacted by the content of it, the hits just keep on coming!
3,230,756 views on YouTube in the one week that it’s lived (and lives on) at that one platform alone. Heck, give it another week and it’ll out-rate “Leave Britany Alone!”
Three days after Obama’s speech was broadcast on Big Old Static TV, Eleanor Clift make this rather astute (for a “traditional” media type) social media observation:
The cable commentators kept pounding away, but in another universe, the one inhabited by Obama’s base–the millennial generation–his Philadelphia speech became the most-viewed video on YouTube this week with almost 2.5 million hits so far. Maybe, just maybe, the cable critics and conservative pundits are talking to themselves.
Woe to the single planet dweller who neglects to make contact with a parallel universe. At some point, a parallel trajectory could very well shift. And run ”traditional” everything right off the road when it does.
The Obama “Victory” speech lives on here if you too might:
a.) Never have actually heard it yourself.
b.) Wish to put it on your MySpace page.
c.) Like to keep an eye on real numbers.
{ 16 comments }
Buzz Brockway 03.25.08 at 8:13 am
It’s all for naught Spacey. Mrs. Bill Clinton is going to steal the nomination.
SpaceyG 03.25.08 at 8:23 am
Fine by me, Buzz. Now if she’d just leave that clown Bill.
rugby fan 03.25.08 at 8:29 am
Are you willing to put a steak dinner behind that assertion Buzz?
malloryc 03.25.08 at 8:29 am
And if it’s the year of the youtube campaign, it’s also the year of the irreverent poll. Who’s the biggest pig in politics right now?: http://www.wowowow.com/poll/who-biggest-pig
Buzz Brockway 03.25.08 at 8:41 am
Maybe a Taco Bell dinner, but not a steak dinner.
juliobarrios 03.25.08 at 8:48 am
1 million of the 3 million views is probably from Spacey alone.
SpaceyG 03.25.08 at 9:17 am
BTW Julio, I belong to the “I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammer” Facebook Group.
Just thought you should no.
Rogue109 03.25.08 at 9:22 am
SpaceyG: You judge people on their gender and race, too. Isn’t your family the bigoted one through and through, per your own statements?
It’s amusing that you automatically think people are watching the speech and all are coming away thinking he is super. It just doesn’t enter your mind that his negatives are still climbing, does it?
CobbGOPer 03.25.08 at 9:32 am
Um, I guess I’ll have to say it for this thread:
What does this have to do with Georgia?
drjay 03.25.08 at 11:01 am
BTW Julio, I belong to the “I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammer” Facebook Group.
spacey,
i don’t think that the actor who portrayed frasier on cheers and later on his own show should be used either…or did you mean “grammar” which would be ironic since it is spelled incorrectly–do not confuse intelligence w/ poor typing skills–esp. on a blog which is rather different from a term paper…
Rogue109 03.25.08 at 11:29 am
CobbGOPer:
Darn, you beat me to it! Too bad nothing ever sinks in with SpaceyG.
Did you know she is a woman, by the way?
Doug Deal 03.25.08 at 2:12 pm
Well, I have downloaded it 4 times because the first one was so grainy that it was hard to see. The second time it cut out in the middle, the third time I finally got to skim through the parts I missed and the last time I showed my wife.
So, how many of the “millions” of views were just the same people accessing the image multiple times, or liberal blog readers trying to pad the stats by having it refresh repeatedly?
The speech was terrible because it proved that he was lying about not knowing about the statements, which means he knew it was something that would have been better to cover up. It means he loses credibility and the image of him being something new and different is shattered. It’s being replaced by the reality of him being a not quite yet 2/3 term Senator with a pleasant speaking voice, and ties to hate mongers.
Romegaguy 03.25.08 at 2:12 pm
It relates to Georgia because she threw in the useless reference to the useless Insider Advantage, duh!
Lt. Col. Sheppie 03.25.08 at 8:04 pm
SpaceyG is sneaky that way…quick reference to IA then on with the national stuff. With Obama’s fan base being the college kids, I bet 50,000 are responsible for all of those hits. Remember being that age when you could listen to the same song 8 times in a row and not be tired of it? Or you had watched Monty Python’s Holy Grail so many times you could recite along with it. Uh oh, I just outed myself as an uber nerd in high school, didn’t I?
Romegaguy 03.25.08 at 9:41 pm
Just High School?
Bill Simon 03.25.08 at 11:45 pm
DrJay,
Is Facebook like the Tether-Ball Club?
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