Archive for March 17th, 2007

Weekend Comedy Special

Septuagenarian comedian Jackie Mason is vlogging! (Who knew?) And he’s talkin’ politics. Politically incorrect politics.

Mason says that when it comes to the Iraq war, Hillary Clinton has “taken more positions . . . than any hooker in a whorehouse.” (Insert rimshot here.)

And Mason’s not much of a Barack Obama fan either. Jackie says that Obama is a “hot commodity” simply because he is black. “If he was short and Jewish, or if he was a small Puerto Rican, or if he was a fat Indian, nobody would care, nobody would notice.” Here’s more spritz:

Kucinich and the kid

It’s a first: A candidate responds directly to a voter’s comments via YouTube. Here’s Dennis Kucinich replying to my esteemed competitor, James Kotecki:

Here was James’ video that elicited the response:

And here is James responding to Kucinich responding to him. Is this giving anybody else a headache? I love it. But it’s too bad this is such a meta exchange: video on video on video. What I want to see is candidates responding to voters on issues. I’ll repeat: David Cameron in the UK answers five questions a week, three of them voted up by the voters. And he’s not even running for office (well, not officially).

(Maybe I’m just jealous that McCain hasn’t responded to my advice.)

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At Politics online, James and I finally got to meet up. I discovered him way back a month ago. He’s a student at Georgetown, soon to graduate, and is also working with Captitol Hill Broadcasting. Here’s our meetup in Washington, shot by James’ girlfriend, Emily Freifeld, a journalism student at American University:

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And here are James and me quoted in a Washington Post story on the YouTube campaign.




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