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Political vlogging

Blogs that traffic in words are Model Ts of the web, compared with the rising video weblogs. The LA Times today looks into video "trackers," who trail political candidates with video cameras hoping to catch embarrassing moments. The clips are then posted almost instantly on YouTube and other video-sharing sites.

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I grew up idolizing Thomas Edison, Philo T. Farnsworth, and Alexander Southwestern Bell. But my new hero is Leyland F. Videostein, the inventor of the video camera!

For a century the people have looked for ways to keep their politicians more honest. To hold the slippery suckers more accountable. To catch them with their pants down or their grubby hands in the cookie jar and now the video camera and YouTube are making it more possible. Blogs are great political rectal thermometers too!

The old style blowhards are getting hoisted on their own petards every week with their macaca moments. And America is better for it every time one of them shows their true colors. But we must remember the future political bad guys will train themselves to never goof up in public.

Maybe by then Leyland F. Videostein will have invented a machine that can detect under the table pay-offs, Page boinking and whore dialing and then we'll really have something!

Opponent Outs Florida GOP Governor Candidate
by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff

October 12, 2006 - 7:00 pm ET


(Fort Lauderdale, Florida) Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist has been the subject of speculation for several years but on Wednesday a political opponent used National Coming Out Day to say he's known for years that Crist is gay.

Appearing on WFTL, a South Florida news-talk station, independent gubernatorial candidate Max Linn said it is common knowledge in Tallahassee that Crist is gay.

And, Linn said it is time Crist acknowledged it.

"Charlie come out, come out from wherever you are," Linn said during an interview on the station.

Linn said he has known Crist for 25 years and even worked to help get him elected to other offices and that he's "a good guy."

The Crist campaign said Thursday it would not comment. A spokesperson for U.S. Rep. Jim Davis, the Democrat running for governor, also declined to comment.

In an August radio interview in Miami Crist denied rumors he is gay when the question was directly put to him.

"The point is, I'm not. There's the answer. How do you like it?" Crist said. "Not that there's anything wrong with that, as they say on Seinfeld. But I just happen not to be."

During the gubernatorial primary Crist's opponent for the GOP nomination, Tom Gallagher, continually assailed Crist as "soft on homosexuals".

Although both candidates oppose same-sex marriage and gay adoption Crist would "allow" civil unions in Florida. Gallagher maintained there was no difference between the two.

In public opinion polls Crist leads Davis 53 - 43. Davis also opposes same-sex marriage.

more GOP CLOSET republicans OUTTED for their lies about their sexualith
this time its on the state level in FL yehallllllllllll the GOP is full of these closet cases and everyone of them need to be exposed......................

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