President Bush has been uploaded onto YouTube singing an off-key spoof of “The Green Green Grass of Home,” which he performed Saturday at the supposedly off-the-record Gridiron Club dinner. Story here.
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And what have we learned?
1.) Cellphone cameras are not a record.
2.) YouTube is not a record.
3.) If you go on-the-record with a YouTube video, which we’ve established is not a record of an off-the-record event (naturally you would add the video or a summary of what occurs in the video) this doesn’t violate off-the-record agreements because the subject of the story is NOT that our Commander in Chief behaved like a cowpoke, who’d hit the hooch a lil’ too hard and mistakenly believed he was a Texas cabaret singer – the subject is should he have appeared on YouTube singing this insensitive song. See the difference there.
4.) Paul Shankin is far better at this.
5.) Nothing public can remain private: it is rare if private remains private.
6.)If you nurture Big Brother by spreading paranoia and propaganda, this creates bad karma.
7.) Bad Karma will always return to bite you in the ass.
