Posted by
Katie Favazza on Thursday, February 22, 2007 3:44:42 PM
Newt's YouTube challenge has disappeared from YouTube.
Today, when I clicked the link--in search of a few entries--I was disappointed.
YouTube said: "This video has been removed by the user." Why would Newt remove his own challenge? Hmm. Made me think.
A few minutes later, I was at HotAir.com and watched
yesterday's episode of Vent. In it, Michelle Malkin states that when her videos have been removed (presumably for being "inappropriate"), the same error message appears.
"Our anti-jihad and YouTube censorship videos have been pulled and falsely labeled as being 'removed by the user.' Well, we would like to inform YouTube users that this information is false, wrong, and untrue. We didn't remove our own videos. You did. We'd also like to request that YouTube correct the record."
So now I'm curious.
Was
Newt's challenge deleted by YouTube?
By the way, in case you missed it, the challenge was
"to create a two-minute YouTube video that easily explains why Free Enterprise is best for America." What a scandal, eh?
UPDATE 3:46pm: Not a scandal at all, apparently. Here's
the correct link and you can watch the video below. WHEW. If someone censored
my buddy Newt, I was going to get angry...