The YouTube Effect

I have little interest in the current Hillary-Obama feud but the dueling videos led the BBCto report this:

"The internet is going to be the main event ... anything that gets the attention of millions of eyeballs - and particularly millions of eyeballs of people who at this early stage are watching - matters," she said.

The stir caused by the ad is evidence of the rapidly expanding political influence of sites like YouTube.

You Tube, it seems, has become something more than a stage for teenagers to show their joy over discovering flatulence is flammable. That may not be enough to break the power of the king makers and lobby groups that really run the show....and lobby groups and king makers are the only way to explain the senate's amnesty bill -which is opposed by 85% of Americans, fake wall street polls notwithstanding - but it could be enough to shed a little sunlight, which is a remarkably good disinfectant.