1.0 link 119588 <![CDATA[Happy Macaca Day!!! The 2nd Anniversary of the Birth of YouTube Politics]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-manatt/happy-macaca-day-the-2nd_b_119588.html Just two years ago, the modern age of YouTube/Web Video Politics began:

On 8.11.06, Sen. George Allen, a shoo in for reelection and early favorite for the GOP 08 pres nomination, called Web Campaign video tracker S.R. Sidarth "Macaca".

On 8.14.08, the Webb campaign, unable to get TV stations to take the video and run with the story, posted it on the new video service, YouTube, which as of then was not on anyone's political radar.

The rest is history.

True, there were pioneers...

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