The Importance Of YouTube

As I wrote in the previous post elements of the New Media especially YouTube will be extremely important come the 2008 Election.

We saw how Edwards used YouTube successfully in announcing that he was running for the presidency. Now I will show the negative side of YouTube. The clip below is from the Tom Delay Blog (yes, that "Tom Delay"... YouTube can be easily used by your political enemies).

Let's just say that this video won't help Mr. Edwards earn much support from voters that want a strong and powerful president.





The following quote from this post really puts the video in prespective:

"What's interesting about the Edwards clip isn't really that Edwards is obsessed with his hair, it's that politics today is so consumed with image, with calculated image, that if Edwards appeard on a news show with messy hair, the media would have been all over him."



But then again... who doesn't like good hair?

UPDATE:

A great article from TownHall.com on the importance of YouTube. Mr. Edwards are you listening??