When the Obama transition team posted the President-elect’s first weekly video address on YouTube, several transparancy advocates complained that, without comments or response videos enabled, the addresses were merely a one-way conversation. The Obama camp soon relented on comments, resulting in a typical flood of juvenille nonsense following each of the President’s sober monologues. But the transition team, and now the administration, drew the line at video responses. I mean, who knows what kind of crazy shit people might post?
Well, via TechPresident, we learn that the YouTube afficionado most outraged by his inability to see his own grainy face alongside the President’s is…House Republican leader John Boener.
Boener’s people want his own video approved as an official response to the President’s January 24 address. They’ve got a point. If you’re going to allow “djfishbone” to advance our democratic dialogue by writing “YEA BUSH 2.0!! i’m not getting on the bus and going to the camp,” why not a proper video reply from the House Republican Leader? It’s possible that Obama’s new media folks have mistaken Boener, so…YouTubeish a screen name, for a less serious respondent.
Then again, Boener must have his hands full already, composing witty ripostes to his own video respondents, of which he has approved one. I can’t wait to see how he comes back at this guy:
Posted at 12:26 pm | Filed under Politics, Technology, Wired |
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