Celebs Make Videos for Onion Pulitzer Campaign

Some of our top Trending videos this week have come from an effort launched by the "Americans For Fairness in Awarding Journalism Prizes." You can see their PSA here, which explains the campaign against the Pulitzer Prize for its long time lock-out of The Onion from the recipients.

A host of celebrities from Mario Batali to Arianna Huffington have filmed short clips in support of The Onion and against the Pulitzer board. Below, we've collected 10 more popular videos from some surprising actors and other big names who've contributed to the cause so far:

Inside YouTube Search: Looking Back at a Major News Week

Last week was a major week for news involving the President, with Obama delivering two starkly contrasting, yet incredibly popular speeches.

We already analyzed how popular his correspondents' dinner remarks have been -- and since then, they've been viewed roughly 8 million times total. The official White House version of his address on the death of Osama bin Laden, which he delivered the following night, has been viewed over 5 million times.

Today, we've gone back and looked at last week's search data for some perspective. Searches around the world for "Obama" on YouTube so far this month were at their relative highest since January 2009, when the President was inaugurated. The term "bin laden" is the top rising U.S. search on YouTube of the past thirty days, and if you look back at searches for "osama" globally over the past few years, weekly interest essentially charts like a hockeystick:



In the United States, searches for "osama" spiked higher than searches for "tsunami" did in March, making this one of biggest news stories in terms of U.S. interest so far this year.

Obama's 2011 Correspondents' Dinner Speech Draws Millions of Views

President Obama's remarks Saturday evening will go down as the most popular ever for the White House Correspondents' Dinner on YouTube. The speech, which was posted by CSPAN, has been the Most Shared and the top Trending Video for the past two days.

Looking back at the viewing data since 2008, there are few other speeches overall that have more views. In general, views for CSPAN YouTube videos hit an all-time high on Sunday, 4.4 million views, which were mostly for that speech. That's roughly double the previous high from January 20th, 2009, Barack Obama's inauguration day.

The chart below shows the disparity in views so far for the 2011 remarks and CSPAN videos of other remarks made by President Obama and President Bush the past few years:

Obama's 2012 Announcement: How It Was Shared

Yesterday, President Obama announced his 2012 Presidential Campaign via YouTube video (posted below). The clip was viewed over 100,000 times yesterday. Considering the amount of attention the video drew in the press -- it remains one of our Trending Videos -- and across social media, we decided to look at how the announcement video was shared online.*

The first wave of buzz around the video came very early in the morning, as influential tweets -- in sharing terms -- were posted by Politico's Mike Allen, then by ABC's Jake Tapper and Mark Scott. The first official news account to tweet out the video was BBCWorld. Later in the afternoon, the President's official account tweeted it as well, creating a second wave of attention on that platform.

(Interestingly, this was the second "launch of the 2012 campaign" video to go viral, with a faux announcement video posted by the National Republican Senatorial Committee on April Fools Day that drew 562,000 views over the weekend.)

A look back at YouTube search data from the 2008 campaign shows that the biggest surge in search interest is likely a ways off, but it will be interesting to follow the weekly peaks and valleys as the campaigns truly get underway.



Mouse over the points to see the corresponding campaign events. For more recent search info on "Obama" searches, check out our post 12 Months of Searching for Obama.

*Note: We only looked at shares of the actual YouTube video and not shares of articles containing the video, such as this one from the Huffington Post, which was also popularly shared.

Your Words to President Obama

Today, YouTube sat down with President Obama for an interview featuring questions submitted by users from around the world. In the six days that voting was open, YouTube received 139,632 questions from 193,066 people who cast 1.38 million votes.

The questions were distributed among seven different categories: Education, Health Care, Foreign Policy, Jobs/Economy, Immigration, Energy/Environment, and Other. We took the top voted five thousand questions and divided them up into their respective categories to see what the most commonly used words were in the questions we received. We then created images from those words using Wordle.

We wanted to get an idea of how our users chose to express their concerns and questions to the President of the United States on each of these important issues. Here's what we found:

(Click images to open full-size.)

Education

Jobs & the Economy

Energy & the Environment

Foreign Policy & National Defense

Immigration

Health Care

Other

Below, you can watch the interview and see which questions made it:

12 Months of Searching for Obama

President Obama's State of the Union address will be livestreamed on YouTube tonight, and, if history is any indication, there is a good chance we will see searches for the President spike again this week, particularly considering YouTube is conducting an interview with the President on Thursday.

The largest spike in search interest for the President occurred right around the 2010 State of the Union, so we decided to look back at how searches for the word "Obama" have risen and declined in the 12 months since that peak.

While there is steady interest throughout the year, most of the sharp rises -- as you can see marked in the chart below -- all seem to coincide with major political and national events during the time frame, beginning with the signing of health care reform into law and spiking again this month around the time of the President's speech in Tucson, Arizona.



(Mouse over the points for more detail)

• If you, yourself, would like to ask the President a question this week, you don't have to search for it. You can just go here.

Crazy

In Washington D.C. a homeless man was attacked & left dying on a busy side walk & no one called for help until after about 20minutes. He died. This video here shows it all. Shows people walk right pass his unconscious body. Some people didn't assume he was hurt, but homeless dudes don't lie like that & someone had to have seen the attack.
Watch & call it for yourself.

Changing the rules

It's 2009 & our new Present, Barack Obama is a man of today. Past Presidents have implemented strict rules that everyone in the White house wear professional clothing, all men, including the President must wear a suit jacket. Well Obama is runnin' this bitch now and our man can do whatever the fuck he wants. It's a more casual society we live in, so Barack has taken out that rule. Hey, he wants to be more comfortable while he saves our country. Some think it's inappropriate but I think we can safely assume those people voted for McCain. Mr. President you look good, wear whatever you want!





(pic from aol)

Change Gonna Come

B.O.B., Charles Hammilton, & Asher Roth

I like this track

Shepard Fairey's Hope

Shepard Fairey's famous Obama Hope image has been inducted into Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. I read on the art collectors blog that "only a few months ago Fairey was arrested in Denver for postering around the Democratic National Convention. Now his name will appear in the permanent collection of the government-sponsored Smithsonian Institute."
That's fucking great.

Fairey also appeared on the Colbert Report show where Colbert said "So you’re a criminal…that’s the sort of people who support Barack Obama.” Lol. Everyone supports Barack Obama. That's why he's pure greatness.

Jump to watch the video on Stephen Fairey's arrest. I fucking hate the police.


Shepard Fairey: Busted! -

Bill O'Reilly and Dennis Miller on Jeezy and Jay-Z Song

CORNY!!! Typical republicans yapping about rappers, what else is new. They are just mad because the President is Black. Must have been a boring day a work for them. Nice try but sorry no thanks.




Can you believe this?

Barack & Michelle's dance

I def thought Beyoncé singing at Inauguration was overrated, but it watching it was so intense. Had to shed a few tears!

Michelle Obama in Jason Wu

Michelle Obama is beautiful. She chose a white, chiffon, one shoulder gown by 26yr old designer Jason Wu for her & her husband's first dance as President & First Lady.
They're going to 10 parties tonight. Talk about no sleep!
Jump for more info & pics of the dress.


I read he sewed the dress himself in December and that he didn't know she was wearing until she wore it. Both Jacqueline Kennedy & Nancy Reagan wore white to inaugural balls. She's now one of the greats of course.
The dressed will be donated to a museum for first wives.
Their 1st ball was at the Neighborhood Ball. Their first dance was to "At Last", Beyonce sang.

President Barack Hussein Obama

This man is unbelievable. I can't not cry when I hear him. Or smile when I see him. It's such a blessing to be here for this history. Our President is bi-racial, just like America. Finally. He's such a visionary. To hear an American President speaking the words of hope and change and to feel that he is sincerely speaking to every single one of us Americans, it's breath taking. People all over the globe are celebrating this. What a powerful man. The most wonderful power. Barack Obama is God-sent.
If you missed his inauguration speech, here it is below. He encourages us all to do our part as citizens to make our country better. He's going to lead us, so we need to follow.

Inaguration Day of Obama: Today History Will Be Made

*courtesy of cnn

If you never payed attention to inagurations before today you must change that. Barack Obama will become the 44th President of The United States.YES!!! Today is the day we can officially scream "Our President Is Black"! Obama will be sworn in at 12pm. So turn on your television sets and fire up your computers!!! You can catch the breaking live coverage throughout the day if you tune in at cnn, usatoday and newyorktimes just to name a few. This is HISTORY BABY SO PAY ATTENTION!

"My President is Black/in fact he's half white/so even in a racist mind, he's half right/even if you've got a racist mind, it's all right/my President is Black, but his house is all white " - Jay-Z

Beyonce singing at Inauguration

MSNBC reports that Beyonce will be singing at the inauguration on Tuesday for Barack and Michelle Obama’s first dance.
That's pretty flippin' sweet. Wish I could be there. No word on what song yet.
It's going to be a real special night.

Mishka Bootleg Black Bart Tee

January 20th is an important day because it marks a pretty epic change in the course of American politics. Not to get all politically-heavy with you guys, but “change” is a comin’. This very change - which is rolling in waves - has affected us here at Mishka too. To the point where we’ve succumbed to peer pressure and finally caved into the Obama train. But being the jaded, peanut gallery we are, regardless of change, politics is politics. A famous presidential candidate once said “You can put lipstick on a pig, but its still a pig.”

So to celebrate this monumental/business-as-usual day, Mishka has decided to release an Obama tee in the only way it makes sense to us – Bootleg Black Bart style. Influenced by Young Jeezy’s “Black President” and fueled by our resentment for the run-of-the-mill Obama shirts sold everywhere, Mishka’s Bootleg Black Bart tee embodies exactly what Mishka fans expect of the brand and expect of a Mishka/Obama shirt.

Shirts will be available for purchase tomorrow, the 16th exclusively on the Mishka website.

*thanks to hypebeast

National Day of Service

First Lady Michelle Obama asks us all to join the National Day of Service, this Monday, January 19th. A beautiful day. Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
You can go to USAservice.org to find local events in your area that you can help.

My Mannnnnn

Check out Mr.president eating soul food with some folks and even managing to keep his slang intact!
"Nah We Straight"

How You Feel?

Wat's going on everyone, I'm bringing to you today a close friend of mine video blog. This is my friend MOOD who runs his own blog site and here is one of his video blogs with him speaking about all this recession/ bailout commotion
I want you all to write back and tell me
HOW YOU FEEL?

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