A Night to Remember: The Election of Barack Obama (11/06/2008)
Hillary in Tuzla (3/23/2008)
Fox caught with its pants down on ABC attacks (6/18/2009)
John McCain's Wandering Eyes (8/30/2008)
This just might be Sean Hannity's looniest attack ever (6/4/2009)
Obama is right: McCain was wrong (9/26/2008)
Obama knew it was coming all along (10/9/2008)
007 GoldenMansion, starring John McCain (8/22/2008)
Video #1: A Night to Remember: The Election of Barack Obama (11/06/2008)
This video features election night 2008 highlights from the major news broadcasts and President Obama's victory speech in Grant Park and sets them all to an upbeat soundtrack. It's one of my favorites, and I still watch it from time to time to relive the excitement of that historic night.
Video #2: Hillary in Tuzla (3/23/2008)
This video probably had more impact on the 2008 primary than any other video I posted during the nomination contest. Edited in the style of a movie trailer, it juxtaposes clips Hillary Clinton claiming to have braved sniper fire on an airport tarmac in Bosnia with footage of what actually took place: a peaceful outdoor greeting ceremony including a poem read by a little girl.
Although the basic facts had been known for quite some time, this was the first video contrasting Clinton's "sniper fire" claim with what really happened. According to ABC News, the Obama campaign circulated the video to media, and within a day, the issue exploded, dominating campaign coverage for more than a week and blunting the momentum Clinton had picked up in Ohio as the campaign headed towards Pennsylvania.
The video was an instant viral hit, getting more than 300,000 plays in its first two days.
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Video #3: Fox caught with its pants down on ABC attacks (6/18/2009)
This video provides one of the clearest examples of how Fox literally manufactures news to advance its agenda. It contrasts clips of Fox complaining about a scheduled ABC broadcast from the Obama White House with clips of Fox doing the exact same thing in the Bush White House. ABC's Chief White House correpondent Jake Tapper saw the video and asked Karl Rove to comment on it. Rove did not reply.
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Video #4: John McCain's Wandering Eyes (8/30/2008)
Although this video ostensibly focused on John McCain's awkward gaze towards Sarah Palin after he announced her selection as his running mate, its primary purpose was to highlight the fact that McCain hadn't properly vetted Palin before picking her -- a point hammered home by including a snippet of an NBC report that McCain had only met her once and using the song "Getting to Know You" as the clip's soundtrack. With over a million views, this was my most-watched video. A few days after posting it, CNN featured it, along with the URL to The Jed Report.
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Video #5: This just might be Sean Hannity's looniest attack ever (6/4/2009)
Here's another example of a "keeping them honest" video, showing Sean Hannity claiming that President Obama was trying to cast America as a Muslim nation. In fact, as the video shows, President Obama said America does not definite itself as a Muslim nation -- nor a Christian or Jewish one.
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Video #6: Obama is right: McCain was wrong (9/26/2008)
In this video, I provided video evidence substantiating a series of charges leveled by President Obama at John McCain in their first debate. It was viewed over 430,000 times. (As you might have noticed, I produced it for The Huffington Post. Around the time of the first debate, I did some contract work for HuffPost, and this was one such example.)
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Video #7: Obama knew it was coming all along (10/9/2008)
Towards the end of the campaign, it seemed like every attack launched at Barack Obama by John McCain blew up in McCain's face. In this video, I showed one of the reasons that Obama had managed this feat of political jujitsu: for months, he'd been predicting that McCain would make the very same attacks that McCain ultimately made. Partly because of that, when those attacks came, they reinforced Obama's critique of McCain: that he was too negative and too afraid of change.
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Video #8: 007 GoldenMansion, starring John McCain (8/22/2008)
The last video in this gallery is a fun one: a montage of clips highlighting John McCain's embarassing inability to remember how many homes he owns (real answer: at least 7), all set to the theme of 007, James Bond.
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