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When a dictator tries to shut down the voice of the people, the people take the voice online:

CARACAS, Venezuela (CNN) -- Radio Caracas Television, the station silenced by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, has found a way to continue its daily broadcasts -- on YouTube, the popular video Web site.

Although the station is officially off the air, CNN's Harris Whitbeck said its news department continues to operate on reduced staffing, and the three daily hour-long installments of the newscast "El Observador" are uploaded onto YouTube by RCTV's Web department.

Ah, the Internet. Where Barack Obama, the first Xer candidate for the Oval Office, hangs out while one of the last of the old guard apparently doesn’t understand that his words will hang around online forever:

Bill O'Reilly: But do you understand what the New York Times wants, and the far-left want? They want to break down the white, Christian, male power structure, which you're a part, and so am I, and they want to bring in millions of foreign nationals to basically break down the structure that we have. In that regard, Pat Buchanan is right. So I say you've got to cap with a number.

John McCain: In America today we've got a very strong economy and low unemployment, so we need addition farm workers, including by the way agriculture, but there may come a time where we have an economic downturn, and we don't need so many.

[crosstalk]

O'Reilly: But in this bill, you guys have got to cap it. Because estimation is 12 million, there may be 20 [million]. You don't know, I don't know. We've got to cap it.

McCain: We do, we do. I agree with you.

Got that? McCain admits he wants to preserve the “white, Christian, male power structure.” That should strike a chord with the multiracial, mostly secular, multigendered geek intelligentsia who surf YouTube for fun.

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Wo. I went to the site and watched the excerpt. In the comments, a poster pointed out Bill's "change the complexion/pardon the pun" statement which McCain also agreed with. Apparently, McCain has even posted this video blurb on his own website. Wo. It's one thing to think that maybe some of these people may be bigoted down deep in their soul and perhaps try to hide it or not even believe it about themselves. But to blatantly verbalize to the world? How can this be over-looked? Granted, the statements are buried in the whole illegal immigrant issue discussion, and a lot of people may not have caught it even if they were listening to the original airing. But excerpted and revealed this way, even on McCain's website? You know, maybe the scariest thing about this is not that the words were said, but that McCain was not with it enough to realize how imprudent it was to agree with them. And he is a senator! Man, how intelligent is the rest of our "white male power structure", the "deciders" for our land?
Unless, of course, the big websites start TOSing the revolution. Yes, I'm still unnerved by what happened on livejournal Wednesday.
What happened on LiveJournal on Wednesday?
I believe some bloggers were involuntarily locked out of their sites.
Strikethrough2007. Note that this narrative is being disputed, but right now, there isn't another one.

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