September 30, 2007

Rudy Giuliani afraid of citizen journalists (Brave New Films)

Brave New Films is a sleazy [1], left-wing organization, akin to the low-rent Hollywoodish version of ThinkProgress. A few days ago, John Ehrenfeld from that site tried to attend [2] a Rudy Giuliani appearance, only to be kicked out apparently after Guiliani staffers learned who he was with. Thinking ahead, they had two people attend, and the footage from the one who wasn't ejected was used to create this popular video: youtube.com/watch?v=VQ0GupTQVpA

This illustrates again that the presidential candidates are afraid of questions from non-MSM journalists; they know that they have little to fear from MSM stalwarts like Dan Balz or Mark Halperin.

Unfortunately, so far almost all of the "citizen journalism" that I've seen has come from either people like BNF or Mike Stark on the one hand, and from Truthers on the other.

Hopefully sometime before January 2008 someone who opposes illegal immigration will go to a campaign appearance, ask a tough question designed to discredit the politician, and then upload the response to video sites.

[1] Regarding the "sleazy", see the race-baiting from the post and imagine the questions he was going to ask. See also their promotion of sleazy videos (bravenewfilms.org/profiles/kwah, youtube.com/watch?v=C6ZmZizWTy4)
[2] therealrudy.org/blog/14205-rudy-s-biggest-headache-brave-new-films

Posted to Politics at September 30, 2007 03:20 PM