In the latest installment of the viral video series starring Senate President Brandon Shaffer, Godzilla makes an appearance to do battle with the Congressional candidate-turned-toaster. As we've said multiple times before, we have absolutely no idea who is creating these videos, but they crack us up every time.
And they're causing headaches for Shaffer's campaign in Youtube search results.
The latest video has Godzilla taking on Toaster Shaffer in an epic duel. It's almost as good as Beavis and Butthead Do America.
This is the kind of thing that also supports my belief about this blog. First of all, a video with a 20 views (as of this writing) is the antithesis of “viral.” (The most views of ANY “Brandon Shaffer” video I could find was 1,765 – belying both the “viral” description and the “causing headache for Shaffer” claim.)
If anything, this shows that the people behind Peak are also behind this video, just like those “spontaneous” signs that were “appearing” around the state a couple of months back – the ones they asked you guys to photograph and email in. How many of those did you see?
This is campaigning, not blogging.
If you think promoting a video that tweaks a favorite enemy of this site is campaigning, you just might be a complete fool.
I’m enjoying watching Shaffer get messed with. That guy is such a douchebag.
Who cares how many views the video has? If you search for his name in YouTube, it’s almost all videos Shaffer wouldn’t want you to see.
Or are you just ashamed the left doesn’t own the internet anymore in Colorado politics?
Aristotle, dear,
I agree. If the video has 20 viewers, it doesn't rise to the level of viral.
You can't conclude, however, that the people at the Peak — neither do I know who they are, nor do I care — are behind this video. My hunch is that the video's creator sent the Peak a copy. When you run a blog that is as well-read as the Peak, you get all sorts of stuff over the transom. But this is just my guess. I have no idea.
If my guess is right, that's blogging, Aristotle. Not campaigning. Why are you so eager to pin the campaigning angle on this blog? I don't get it. Frankly, I've never seen it this way. I see it as an insider's blog about the legislature, not the R party.
And, for what its worth, I don't see your blog as a D party organ either.
… loving the banter with you.
If it’s not Peak producing these videos, then they’re promoting them in collusion with the people who are. The only other possibility is that the guy who made it emailed a link to Peak as soon as it was up, and they were so impressed that they decided to write a diary and call it “viral” at a time that they were possibly the only ones who view it.
Yeah, I think the first option sounds much more likely.
I’m probably not going to locate the fire here, but I think it’s pretty smokey around here…
U mad, bro?
Pols has been accused of being all sorts of things, all of which they deny. The denial matters; if they’re lying at that comes out, they’re finished.
The thing is, you can tell where they’re coming from by what they cover – and what they don’t. They’ve covered enough Democratic foul-ups and scandals to show that they’re not an organ. As you doubtless know, organizations never willingly cover their own bad publicity.
That’s where Bradford’s story comes in. It’s true that the story was all over the media, but if providing further reporting was the only function of blogs like this, no one would bother. This is a place to come discuss the news – one where most people aren’t illiterate troglodytes, which is what you get in the comments section of every news site there is. The blog sets the tone with their commentary, and we get to go at it.
And that’s why I found Peak’s silence – broken only to give Bradford a stern warning when she was threatening to leave (and thus harm) the party – to be so damning. It wasn’t in their interest to give the scandal any more publicity, but it was to say she’d have no future if she switched parties. An independent conservative blog (like Rossputin – is he still blogging?) wouldn’t have been in that position.
Peak hasn’t denied my accusations. No, that’s not a silent admission of guilt, and I don’t take it as such. But it’s another possible clue – if they don’t deny it, it can’t bite them in the ass if it comes out as the truth later.
That said, I can’t claim to know with 100% certainty who they are. They may not be directly affiliated with the GOP, but if it’s not them, then it’s likely some 527. You know, the kind who aren’t supposed to collude, yet somehow do everything in the interests of their allied party anyway.
On a YouTube search of “Brandon Shaffer”…the 1st page showed me 22 results, 4 of which were these weird Asian videos. (That’s not to say that your results could differ, given the way Google/YouTube is doing biz these days)…
As for “campaigning”…Brandon Shaffer’s own “I’m running for Congress” backyard-burger video has an overwhelming 422 hits. Talk about viral!
Peak’s best point is YouTube search results, because 2 of the top 3 vids on my search were Kelly Maher videos, skewering Brandon Shaffer.
Ok, gotta go sock-puppet at ColoradoPols.com!
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The public demands a video about Piss Boy, preferably in Arabic.
… you have to put his name in quotes (“Brandon Shaffer” not Brandon Shaffer) when you do the search. And the “most viewed” one that actually was about our Brandon Shaffer was his announcement video. (Which had 1200 the other day – maybe you found a repost.)
My point isn’t that Shaffer is a strong candidate (he’s not). It’s that Peak is full of shit here. Deflect to Shaffer if you want, but it doesn’t refute me in the least.
In the interest of fairness, here is Shaffer’s announcement video. It gets pretty weird after about 20 seconds though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…
In case you missed it, that “space prison” thing was a reference to Smallville. No idea what the connection is, if any.