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YouTube Hates Conservatives?

Apparently, Republican White House veterans Charlie Gerow and Jeff Lord believe that the incredibly popular Internet video site YouTube is biased against people of the conservative persuasion. In particular, they say YouTube took down a video made by controversial conservative writer Michelle Malkin.

So, as the Washington Times reports, they've started their own YouTube called QubeTV, a place where conservatives who catch Democrats in their versions of former GOP Sen. George Allen's "macaca" moment can post their videos.

Both Mr. Gerow and Mr. Lord, who served as aides during the Reagan administration, say QubeTV is necessary because of what they view as an anti-conservative bias by the administrators of YouTube.

"We saw a need for a social-networking site for the center-right," Mr. Gerow said of the site, at www.Qubetv.tv.

The conservative Jawa Report, however, says it's not just a bias against right-wingers at YouTube. More conservatives hate YouTube because of its "utter failure to stop the vilest anti-American, pro-terrorist cyber-jihadis from using YouTube to spread their message of hatred." All that and a bag of chips, as we used to say in Nova Scotia.

This posting from the left-of-center Daily Kos ("Because reality has a well-known liberal bias") doubts that conservatives can leave YouTube completely behind. "But of course, we all know that they'll also put their fantastic creation on YouTube, because that's where the audience is." Responding to the perceived bias, the post takes more of a "raised eyebrow at a questionable statement" stance.

A more interesting conservative project in my view is the Majority Accountability Project which, according to the Times piece above, will serve as an "online clearinghouse of information on the House majority." The site has a pretty obvious bias, of course, so read its postings with a grain of salt -- that doesn't mean, however, that you won't find good information there.

11:54 AM ET | 05- 8-2007 | permalink

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Wow... first Conservapedia, and now this. Maybe these conservatives will decide that the Democratic Congress has a well-known liberal bias, and go off to form their own country. (We should be so lucky.)

Sent by Nick | 3:33 PM ET | 05-08-2007

Every media outlet has a bias, and any media outlet failing to admit as much is basically lying. (either to themselves or others)

The KOSanostrum should talk. PC is, in and of itself, an attempt to restrict the discussion of certain "realities."

In my experience, "reality" is far too big a concept to bothere with ideologues on the 'left' and/or 'right' speaking for their narrow view of it.

YouTube is a treasure of sorts, but like Google, risks losing credibility if they take down content from one side but not the other.

I don't know the specific instance at hand, but if a Malkin Video is taken down while a Jihadist screed is not, then critics have a point, even if they are incapable of doing anything about it.

Sent by Bruno | 9:32 AM ET | 05-09-2007

I have seen a multitude of conservative video blogs, posts, and shorts. It always seems like the conservative right is always trying to "one-up" the supposed "liberal" websites, media, and other outlets.

what a lot of conservatives seem to get (and i don't mean all conservatives, but the majority) is that the information that predomenantly comes from these "liberal" media outlets is the actual truth, and doesn't hold any bias towards the left at all. It is merely a matter of certain individuals not being able to accept the truth for what it is, so they feel they have no ther choice but to put up the "anti-american, pro terrorist, cyber jihadist" flag.

and if you search "jihad" on YouTube you will find stupid skits, news clips, national geographic reports, photo slide-shows, and a freestyle rap artist who goes by the name "joey-jihad". There is not a trace of pro-jihadist video or propaganda on there.

Sent by joe k. | 2:07 PM ET | 05-18-2007

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