John McCain tops YouTube charts

A new video from Brave New Films called "McCain's YouTube Problem Just Became a Nightmare" has been No. 1 on YouTube's most-viewed list all day today. The video is an assemblage of clips that appear to show McCain contradicting himself and making exaggerated statements about his own experiences (think Hillary in Bosnia) or about matters of policy --taxes, Katrina and the war in Iraq. 

With the big, sweaty Democratic wrestling match commanding most of the popular attention so far, McCain has been able to hang out in the Internet's political rafters (with a couple of exceptions).  But now the next stage of the election is starting, and McCain will have to contend with the same self-amplifying feedback cycle that has hounded Obama and Clinton -- the one that goes CNN-YouTube-Fox-YouTube-CNN. 

The senator from Arizona seems adept at supplying the kind of gotcha sound bite the News/Tube loop is built to digest and pass along.   It's just that, until now, no one's had much of an appetite.

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McCain really deserves this kind of attention. Bring it on! If the man could maintain a consistent viewpoint for 15 minutes, there would be so much less material. But hey, he's a trainwreck in slow-motion. I just wish there was a candidate that I could really whole-heartedly vote for in November. McInsane definitely is NOT it.