Obama Scores 3 Of Top 10 Political Videos

Rick Perry next with two of the YouTube most-watched videos.

December 20, 2011 RSS Feed Print

President Obama at his funniest and most somber moments dominated the year's Top 10 political videos on YouTube.

According to the website's trend list Obama's joke-filled address at the annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner took second place and his announcement of the killing of Osama bin Laden was fourth. He is also the subject of the 10th video on the list, the National Republican Senatorial Committee ad that raps his management of the economy.

Leading the list was the emotional statement by Zach Wahls defending gay marriage in Iowa that has been viewed more than 18 million times.

Republicans also made the list: Two ads from Rick Perry and one from former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain.

Here's the full list of the most-viewed political videos from the YouTube News and Politics category:

1. Zach Wahls speaks about family

2. President Obama at the 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner

3. Strong, a Rick Perry ad

4. President Obama on death of Osama bin Laden

5. Brother, can you spare a trillion? Government gone wild!

6. Seth Meyers remarks at the 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner.

7. Rick Perry ad - Proven Leadership.

8. Jon Stewart Goes Head-to-Head Bill O'Reilly

9. Now is the time for action! a Herman Cain ad

10. President Barack Obama's First Ad of 2012 from NRSC

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Speaking of political videos...
Obama has a new campaign video on Iraq. Before seeing it, please know this: Obama has doubled down on his abject disregard for bereaved military families by inserting a craven and controversial image of himself into the video.
The image in question appears at the 2:08 mark of his Ending the War in Iraq: A Promise Kept campaign video (if you can stand it that long), and the image was taken and is being shown AGAINST THE WISHES of the bereaved families who gathered together in August for the Dignified Transfer Ceremony at Dover Air Force Base honoring their fallen loved ones.
Even then, Obama disregarded their request that no photographs be released, brazenly making “The Saluting Obama” image his White House Photo of the Day.
More ignominiously, Obama used their CASKETS as PROPS...to be cropped out.
Now it’s unceremoniously been relegated to being Obama campaign fodder.
And that is morally repugnant.
I realize that for Obama, it’s reelection at any cost -- 2012 or Bust! But I can think of no other Obama action so loathsome or despicable. And I just wanted to call Obama out on that.

JoeKidd of CA 8:57PM December 20, 2011

Here’s our interview with Zach about how his life has changed after this speech thrust him into the public eye, what it was like growing up with two mothers, what led him to decide to go and speak before the House of Representatives, and what other young people can do to fight for equality and speak out against intolerance.
http://patv.tv/blog/2011/04/06/talking-with-yale-cohn-with-zach-wahls/

Yale Cohn of IA 5:56PM December 20, 2011

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