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President Obama Will Kibbitz With YouTube Stars
theodp (442580) writes "For better or worse, YouTube stars are a big deal these days. Last December, Microsoft and Code.org turned to YouTube Stars iJustine and The Fine Brothers to help recruit the nation's K-12 schookids for the Hour of Code. And next week, in what the White House is touting as the State of the YOUnion , President Obama will turn to a trio of YouTube Stars for advice on the issues of day following his State of the Union Address. "We're inviting a handful of YouTube creators to the White House to talk with the President in person," explains the White House Blog, "and you can watch it all live on Thursday, January 22. YouTube creators Bethany Mota, GloZell, and Hank Green will interview President Obama about the issues care they most about and what they're hearing from their audiences." Commenting on the choice of the YouTube interviewers, CNN's David Acosta asked (confused) WH Press Secretary Josh Earnest, "I'm just curious, was 'Charlie Bit My Finger' or 'David After Dentist' not available?" So, how long until the U.S. is redistricted into YouTube Channels?"
CNN's David Acosta asked (confused) WH Press Secretary Josh Earnest, "I'm just curious, was 'Charlie Bit My Finger' or 'David After Dentist' not available?"
Sounds like the press secretary got "Acosted".
About as effectual as that.
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
Thank you for having dealt with all the other more pressing problems, domestic and foreign, so that now you have extra time for these folks! I'm sure they'll have lots of informed, trenchant, challenging questions for you, the answers to which will be informative and enlightening. It'll be the adversarial press speaking truth to power!
Q: What does the "B." in Benoit B. Mandelbrot stand for? A: Benoit B. Mandelbrot
I need to get out more.
Just glad to see Hank Green doing stuff. Glad he's got this great opportunity!
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
Since it's not like an evil worldwide ideology is on the rampage or anything, plenty of time and resources for important things like this :)
Wow, I really want to slap the person who came up with that State of the YOUnion buzzword.
Frankly that "After Dentist" kid is exactly how I feel about five minutes into any president's State Of the Union speech...
It would be great to see the wigged out kid and the biting baby / sibling behind the president as he gave the speech though. I can hear the young britsih accent now, faintly from the back... "Charlie, that man is really boring".
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Is the pres gonna plink with Hickok45 at his "backyard range"?
If you don't know who those people are (and I'll admit I don't) then this isn't for you. It's about getting younger people involved and voting. Older people already vote more regularly, with people in their teens and 20s not voting with much regularity (see 2014). If Obama can reach those voters and get them interested in the process, then he's laying a base for Democrats going forward.
As for the 'all other problems being solved' nonsense, take a look at the schedule for Congress over the past few years and see what tough issues they spent their time working on.
If you don't know how to spell an unusual word with yiddish origin that'll make you look like a pretentious schnook, perhaps you can find a better word?
He does know he's not campaigning for re-election, right?
How pathetic.
Last December, Microsoft and Code.org turned to YouTube Stars iJustine and The Fine Brothers to help recruit the nation's K-12 schookids for the Hour of Code.
I'm sorry, who?
It's only significant if you make it so. Winners of masturbation contests don't really "win" anything. Obama ought to know that.
Will the Annoying Orange get invited? Huh? huh? huh? huh?
"about the issues care they most about and what they're hearing"
care they most??
really??
It's not just the summary, that's on whitehouse.gov...
I am so ashamed to be a citizen of the U.S. right now.
It takes a lot less to inspire your generation than ours.
I've never seen the other two, but Hank Green, and his brother John, are two people who've earned much respect in my view, for their charity work, for their educational series "Crash Course", and for the work they've done supporting other youtube science channels, like Emily Graslie and Animal Wonders.
The Prez wants to hang with Aurini, because bitches, man.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Nor will he issue Executive Memorandums. He'll just tweet new laws and upload speeches to Youtube. And, of course, for the devoted that want real "face time", there's Facebook.
On a day when 12 French citizens were massacred by Islamist zealots yelling “Allah akbar,” the Democrats controlling the White House announce that “Islam is a religion of Peace.”
Read more: http://therightscoop.com/islam-is-a-peaceful-religion-white-house-press-secretary-on-terrorist-attack-in-paris/#ixzz3PEyyTPqV
The result is a cover up of orders by Mohammed to kill non-Muslims / Jews, such as
"Oh Muslim, there is a jew hiding behind me, come and kill him" (Sahih Muslim Book 41, Number 6981)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_antisemitism
Genocide is the wiping out of a race of people. If the Jews in Israel are attempting genocide against the Palestinians (who often brag about their rising population and claim they will eventually eliminate the Jews by out-breeding them) then the Jews have to be the most-incompetent people on Earth when it comes to being evil - they're apparently just not able to be very bad.
The arabs, and the people who pretend to be from the mythical nation of "Palestine" (a nation that has never actually existed, as Yassar Arafat admitted in the 1970's) on the other hand have frequently announced their intent to wipe out all the Jews (they just lack the power to do it... which further enrages them). Given that the so-called Palestinians wave flags and maps that have NO Israel on them while screeching about killing all the Jews, THEY certainly deserve to be victims of genocode more than anybody else on Earth ... but NOBODY has ever attemtped a mass-slaughter of Palestinians. The Muslim Brotherhood, on the other hand, allied itself with Hitler in WWII and was part of the war machine that DID attempt genocide against the Jews.
It's time for the "Palestinians" to stop occupying Israel (ALL of it) and get off the Temple mount (THE holy site of the Jewish faith) to which Islam CANNOT logically hold ANY claim given that Islam is about 700 years younger than Christianity, which is thousands of years younger than Judaism). The "Palestinians" can live in MANY lands where their ancestors actually came from, like what is now called Jordan (formerly "Trans-Jordan" a majority-Palestinian nation) Syria, Lebanon, Arabia, Egypt (Yasser Arafat was actually an Egyptian). Jews CANNOT safely live ANYWHERE else as history has proven (in WWII every nation turned its back on them, even the US sent many to Germany to die). In the aftermath of WWII, the entire civilized world swore "Never Again", and yet clearly nothing was learned - Jew-hatered is on the rise across Europe and even in the US where leftists have taken over the universities and are again pushing evil ideologies like national socialism.
Half of your population voted for this radical clown. I used to think that something would be lost in a nuclear war between the US and Russia or China - now, not so much.
I mean...it must be hard work killing jobs, energy, and inviting millions of illegal aliens to hook into our every growing welfare system that doesn't even help real Americans. I guess he must have some hobbies between golfing and vacationing like the 1% of the 1% of the 1%ers. How he manages to find time to do the little things with his 1 day a week work week. Maybe he should triple the deficit and give more power to our broken federal government. Oh well...lets get back to attacking Fox News and the Tea Party. HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Attempting to turn yourself into an internet meme won't cozy you up to us, not when your administration's policy is that all private communications online should be subject to government snooping.
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Always works well.
That means they're confident. So confident about these youtubers' ambition and personalities that Obama will never hear any word that might potentially upset him, such as "Kiriakou", "torture", "drone", "kill list", "accountability" or "war criminal".
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At least explain your nonsense if you're going to say it in public.
Please use proper English. Throwing strange slang and borrowed stuff into articles makes it very hard to read some of the submissions.
YouTube has more viewers and gets basic facts wrong less often than CNN. Yet despite CNN's numerous ongoing deficiencies, the President has been quite generous and gracious to the network, appearing for interviews several times -- including a one-on-one interview with Candy Crowley late last month.
FoxNews would have a field day
Table-ized A.I.
Well, it's not as bad as it seems. They could have invited Cartmanbrah.
Absence of proof != proof of absence.
'Bethany Mota' a very clever way of selling product to kids, under the guise of some Valley girl just hanging in her bedroom with her Youtube 'friends'. Marketing exec: 'We got a contract to shift some .. 'batiste dry shampoo', 'Bumble and Bumble City Swept Finish', 'white eyeliner', 'red lipstick', 'mascara', 'vests from Target', 'skirt from For-ever-21', 'boots from For-ever-21', 'tanktop', 'Blue dress from LX-Fashion', 'White shoes from American Apparel', 'Purse from Clothing Line', 'Overalls from Love Culture', 'American Flag T-shirt from Brandy Melville', 'Backpack from Target', 'White dress from For-ever-21', 'Black-&-White Wedges', 'Headband from Michaels Craftstore'. If you're a teenage girl out there, if you buy all this product, then you can also have Bethanys lifestyle.
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ref: Valley Speak
Never heard of him!
Obama this, Bush that bla bla bla bla....
Americans waste their time fighting over what is essentially 2 sides of the same coin.
Republicans and Democrats are both the same thing; Corporatists that serve their corporate overloads. What little differences the 2 parties have on some issues is used to keep the American people fighting over somewhat meaningless issues instead of paying attention to the fact that they are being robbed blind by the 1%.
But I guess I should not be too hard on Americans, most nations of the West have adopted similar systems.
I digress....But realistically speaking you guys know that Obama is a HUMAN, and as such requires a little bit of down time and light hearted activities...I mean do you really want the President to burn out while in office? Also a lot of decisions and political maneuvering tend to happen during these so called "waste of time" activities...
Niggers aren't human, they're subhuman.
...in Bread and Circuses.
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"Kibbitz" (or "kibitz") is a Yiddish term meaning, "to offer unsolicited advice". Until very recently, this is the only meaning i'd heard for this term, but lately people appear to be using it to simply mean, "converse" (or perhaps more precisely, "engage in small talk"). I understand that language evolves and word meanings change, but if this is indeed the case with "kibbitz" it would be a real shame, because the word in its original sense is useful for conveying a concept concisely that otherwise cannot be conveyed in English using a single word...
I am not a number - I am a free man!
... that I'm not idiotic hipster enough as I find the "Fine" Bros to be as irritating as fuckall, and iJustine as just a WTF moment...
I note that they're both super hip on suckling on the M$ teat as well... One has to wonder what that raked in...