Did you watch Nightline tonight? They were discussing how the

[napi21]

internet is affecting the election. They showed one nasty ad against Hillary that looked like it was from Obama, but it was done by some guy on his laptop. Apparently it got well over 1 million hits on youtube.

Their point was that anyone with a little talent can post anything on the net and it's very difficult if not impossible to find out who did it. It could be a very interesting election!

[mth44sc]

1. So the major media is pissed...

that it no longer controls the message?

mercy me

[napi21]

2. That's part of it, but the other problem is that we could have a llion swift boaters!

Think about it. The SwiftBoater against Kerry managed to run a small inexpensive ad that got picked u by the media and destroyed the Kerry campaign. ANYONE with a litle bit of knowledge can do the same thing on youtube for NOTHING!

[Egnever]

3. power to the people !

I'll take my chances.

[BenDavid]

6. I would say the major mediawhores are happy tonight after

the swiftboating the mediawhores did on both clintons.....Hell, folks that know stuff knew obama played the race card and the mediawhores jumped right on in with them and pounded and pounded both clintons. No one was able to speak to south carolina's blacks for them to know the truth about what the clintons were supposed to have done.....The mediawhores blew up this state to the point obama had to win it big and of course he did, but what did obama really win?

Then on top of that for about 3 days they were quoting some polling that shown obama only getting 10% of the white vote. Obama has not ever polled that low with white voters and we knew this was some bogus ass poll, and knew exactly what the mediawhores were going to do with it and how they were going to use it.....

Yes if you think a moment it will come to you....Yes, obama would get a higher percent of the white vote and the mediawhores would use the bogus 10% to show a greater increase in whites for obama. This to be sent out across the air in hopes it reached people in all those 2/5 states.....

The mediawhores then would not have to report the headlines that would read...Obama get a huge black turnout in S.C. win! but they could use something like this.....Obama gains in white vote to win S.C.

But after tonight the media will not be able to corrupt another state as they did in south carolina.....

[dragonlady]

4. A campaign should make a section on its website to disavow ads that aren't theirs

Maybe that would help. We'd have to get in the habit of checking it before we start criticizing.

[napi21]

5. By thecandidate woul help, but Factcheck is much better!

We didn't have that in 04, and t hurt bad!