So, the foul-mouthed rapper “Soulja Boy” told American soldiers to go “f**k” off in a new rap video and insulted them for not being real men. Now, he says he didn’t really mean it — and, in fact, the reason he said “f**k” our “Army troops” is that he cares about them so much and […]

Don’t be evil.

Stalwart GOP conservative Sen. Jim Inhofe was opposed to the Crap Sandwich from the beginning — and has pushed vigorously for a rollback of the massive bailout. Today, he launched his YouTube channel with a salvo aimed at President Bush for moving to free up the rest of the $350 billion in TARP funds. Inhofe’s […]

DhimmiTube.

Double standards.

Takedown.

AllahTube. (Photoshop credit – Jawas)

Update 12noon Eastern: Wired ponders the YouTube effect on the caucuses tonight…”Iowa farmer Jerry Depew is fed up with criticism from outsiders aimed at his state’s caucuses, and so Thursday evening, he’s arming his 16-year-old son Justin with a video camera to record his precinct’s deliberations for the YouTube set. “There’s so much criticism of […]

CAIR brags: They taught her well: (Hat tip – American Infidels)

Horticulture journalism.

Retired gay activist/Hillary supporter/Kerry supporter Keith Kerr = CNN potted plant.

Update: A drinkblogging challenge!

Update 8:00pm Eastern: Who’s in? Rick Moran surveys the GOP field. Bryan Preston has a new Hot Air vid urging Republicans not to run from the scheduled Sept. 17 YouTube/CNN debate. Click to watch: I know. The CNN/YouTube Democrat debate was a circus. I said so. But Republicans shouldn’t sit out their turn. And conservatives […]

Melting.

Wizbang. Update: How would Democrat candidates respond to Michael Yon? Update: Bumped…Let the circus begin…7:14pm First spark…Mike Gravel takes on Hillary and Obama…Hillary refuses to embrace the “liberal” label…8:31pm Eastern A snowman asks about global warming…Hillary is “agnostic” about nuke power…

The roll (red underline indicates the ship-jumpers): Final vote: Shamnesty prevails, 64-35. Recess ’til 2:15pm. Will the “clay pigeon fly?” Stay tuned. The 17 ship-jumpers who went from anti-shamnesty to pro-shamnesty: Dems Bingaman, Boxer, Webb Repubs Bennett, Bond, Burr, Coleman, Collins, Domenici, Ensign, Gregg, Lott, McConnell, Murkowski, Snowe, Stevens, Warner One switcher from pro-amnesty to […]

The Hot Air video report on Akon that Universal Music Group didn’t want you to see is now back up on YouTube. That’s right. The music giant and the video-sharing site (who happen to be “strategic partners“) have backed down: We originally posted the Hot Air report to YouTube on May 2. On May 3, […]

Gone. This morning, I linked to the YouTube version of our Hot Air show exposing hip-hop misogynist Akon. The YouTube version is no longer available. This is the message you will now see: “This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Universal Music Group.” We believe our commentary and criticism of […]

You’ve already seen the stories about the Obama-linked video consultant who was unmasked as the creator the anti-Hillary Big Sister ad. Here’s his confessional at HuffPo, “I made the ‘Vote Different’ Ad:” Let me be clear: I am a proud Democrat, and I always have been. I support Senator Obama. I hope he wins the […]

Well, this is an interesting twist. YouTube, known in these parts for banning those who insult Islam, is now being banned for carrying videos that insult Turkey: A court in Turkey on Wednesday ordered blockage of all access to YouTube, the popular video-sharing Web site, over a video deemed insulting to Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the […]

The Jerusalem Post follows up: Over the past few weeks, those who track the use of media by terror groups have noted a strong trend among Iraqi insurgents to distribute their propaganda movies and violence footage not through fringe, hard-to-find websites, but by uploading them directly to popular video sharing sites such as YouTube. Many […]

Please correct the record on our yanked anti-jihad videos. They were not “removed by the user.” They were removed by you. Discussion at Hot Air. *** Previous: Dhimmitude at YouTube, again YouTube: Time’s invention of the year YouTube and the cyberjihad Google plus YouTube equals… YouTube’s slippery slope Fighting jihad at YouTube Banned on YouTube […]

There’s a new member of the Banned By YouTube club. He’s Nick Gisburne, an atheist who posts videos criticizing religion. He had no trouble uploading anti-Christian monologues to YouTube. But when he criticized Islam by quoting the Koran? YouTube account deleted. (You can seen the banned video at his site.) Here’s Gisburne’s latest video (not […]

Like I said earlier today, information wants to be free. And freedom is something Iran is just not going to tolerate. Via The Guardian (hat tip: Greg Tinti): Iran yesterday shut down access to some of the world’s most popular websites. Users were unable to open popular sites including Amazon.com and YouTube following instructions to […]

YouTube (which never seems to respond to e-mail from customers) sent out a cease-and-desist letter to top tech blogger Michael Arrington of TechCrunch: Buried in my email this evening I found a cease and desist letter from an attorney at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, representing their client YouTube. We’ve been accused of a number […]