By Selwyn Duke

News aggregator
DrudgeReport.com is currently linking to a YouTube video of a government
schoolteacher instructing young students to praise Obama in song. While this is
shocking, there is an even bigger story here. Consider this: the video’s
“views” counter listed only 363 views as of 1:04 p.m. EST on Sept. 24.

But at the same time it had 2,279 comments.  

What’s wrong with this picture?

Obviously, those figures should
in the least be reversed. After all, since the number of comments on
high-traffic YouTube videos generally represents only one-half of one percent
to three percent of the total views, we can estimate that the Obama worship
video had in excess of 200,000 hits at the time. But what accounts for this? Is
it a technical glitch? I doubt it.

But why would YouTube cook the
statistical books? 

Because the exposure a video receives is based
on its number of views. And YouTube — owned by leftist leviathan Google —
wants to suppress negative information about Barack Obama and the left in
general.

In other words, if a video
receives tremendous traffic, it appears on YouTube’s “Popular” videos page or its “Most Viewed” page. This means it will get
infinitely more exposure — it will be seen not just by the people who have
driven it onto the front page but also those who wouldn’t normally know about
it. But YouTube likely doesn’t want you to know about the Obama worship video. So,
perhaps, like a sleazy car dealer dialing down an odometer, they dial down the
hit counter to a point where the video languishes in the recesses of the
site.   

To get a better grasp of this
problem’s magnitude, know that I have a friend who is a frequent YouTube
visitor. He logged on early this morning and watched the Obama worship video. He
says that at approximately 11 a.m. the views counter seemed to reflect the
actual number of hits, with a total of at
least 196,000 (and probably more). But what then no doubt happened is that
YouTube’s censors realized that Drudge had linked up to the video and got busy
with their usual voodoo. 

So I tracked the video a bit
myself. Now, remember that it had 363 hits at 1:04 p.m. Here’s what I found.  

·      
Approximately 1:25 p.m.: the video still
supposedly had only 363 hits but had 2,500 comments. 

·      
1:39 p.m.: still only 363 hits but 2,668 comments.

·      
2:16 p.m.: 363 hits but 3,018 comments.

You get the idea.

If you find it hard to believe
that YouTube would be so blatant and sloppy about its censorship, understand
that it’s practicing it by rote at this point. It’s nothing new.

In fact, my aforementioned
friend reports to me that YouTube had been doing this all throughout the 2008
campaign, suppressing pro-John McCain and anti-Obama videos while showcasing
pro-Obama and anti-McCain works. 

And for another specific
example, he mentioned a Britney Spears video titled “Circus.” When
it was issued late last year, it was immensely popular and was prominently
featured by YouTube (currently has 56,371,680 views). Yet it quickly was
“disappeared.” What was its trespass?

It featured circus animals.

The obvious conclusion is that
YouTube’s commissars received complaints from animal-rights wackos —and these
were reflected in the video’s comments section, actually — and decided it
wasn’t fit for young, impressionable eyes. Of course, this is the same company
that regularly features all manner and form of lewd, perverted behavior on its
main video pages.

And all this from a subsidiary
of the company whose informal motto is “Don’t be evil.”

As for the Obama worship video,
know that if this exposé gets traction, YouTube will do damage control and
allow the video’s stats to reflect the truth.

Oh,
I checked the Obama worship video one last time at 2:52 p.m. It still had 363
views.

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