Did Comedy Group Yank ‘Obama = Keynesian’ Video After Beck Radio/TV Exposure?
- Posted on December 1, 2010 at 11:24am by
Meredith Jessup
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We all shared a good laugh at the expense of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert fans shortly after the comedians’ “Restoring Sanity and/or Fear” rally when a video of rally-goers berating an “Obama = Keynesian” sign surfaced online. We first noticed the video when Politico’s Ben Smith posted it on his blog, as produced by The Partisans of Second City Network — a comedic enterprise headquartered in Chicago.
The video has been wildly popular on The Blaze (over 130,000 views). Glenn Beck talked about it extensively on radio and TV.
But now Second City seems to have removed the video from their YouTube channel. The version embedded on Ben Smith’s blog is now marked “private.”
The video was also pulled from Second City’s own website, though they do have a post featuring video from Beck‘s radio program which played the audio of Second City’s video. The video was coupled with a panicked message: “Our video was featured on the Glenn Beck show! WHAT HAVE WE DONE?!!!”
We had updated our Blaze post by swapping in a different YouTube version. But the other day that video was yanked with a notice that Second City had asked YouTube to remove it. There are still many other versions on YouTube.
So here’s the obvious question: Why did Second City pull The Partisans’ “Restoring Sanity” video?
Commenters on the Second City website have their own theories.
Another commenter suggested the individuals in the video should “sue because they did not have permission from the people on this video to be aired on national tv,” they wrote. “I know one of the people and they were not told it was on tv and I think they should sue the crap out of the person who posted this for damages.”
Is that the reason?
Did people who attended the Stewart/Colbert rally threaten to sue? When they talked to a video crew did they not understand the concept of video? Or was it only okay when they thought they were lecturing ignorant conservatives?
That could be the simple truth. Stewart/Colbert fans love videos skewering conservatives. But they can’t stand when they are the ones being skewered.
Requests for comment from Second City have thus far gone unanswered.
We’ll keep you posted.
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Comments (148)
tjdavid21444
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 12:22pmAnd if not a Glenn Beck audience, what audience were they seeking for their video?
Report Post »Okieflyover
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 2:17pmI saw this video on several sites before I saw it on Beck. It went viral quick. Beck has a big following and I love him, but the movement of what is happening goes beyond Beck and I think Beck wants it that way.
For example, there are many people who agree with what the Tea Party says but would not consider themselves part of the Tea Party. I know from looking on the web that there are many “independent” leaning groups and even historically liberal sites that may be just as upset with Obama as the audience on this site are.
The liberals are going to blow a gasket as they get closer to realizing that Obama will not get a second term and the following topics have not been addressed to their liking: Guantanamo, Tax the Rich (they don’t want to just non-renew the Bush tax cuts, they want a deep tax increase), Don‘t Ask Don’t Tell, implementation of the Health Care Law, etc.
The real issue is that what is going to change in the next 2 years is not going to come from Obama or the Congress, it will come from “regulations”.
Report Post »tjdavid21444
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 12:21pmOh my god, what have we done??!! We’ve gotten huge exposure by being featured on the Glenn Beck show. This is terrible!!! ********.
Report Post »KnowingTheFuture
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 12:20pmThis video proves that a vast majority of the Obama-zombies are ecomomically ignorrant and intellectually lazy.
Report Post »americanpie
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 12:19pmDamn Keynesians are everywhere, I tell ya. They’re – e v e r y w h e r e !
Report Post »powhatan
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 12:18pmthey can dish it out, but they sure can’t take it
Report Post »Ksera Sugarmail
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 12:10pmI am an Obama-zombie…….I get my news from John Stewart……He makes me laugh so I know what he says is factual…..He’s so cool…..I am also a trained seal who sits in Bill Maher’s audience and applauds loudly when the sign prompting me to do so is flashing. If someone mentions Sarah Palin I automatically click into insult-mode. Hatred, hatred, hatred…..Snarky, snarky, snarky. I will mock you but don’t you dare hurt my feelings.
Report Post »Reagan/Demint.deciple
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 1:45pmI’m going to track you down and knock your lights out, moron….
Report Post »LMFAO, I know you’re being facetious .. I was too…hehehe..
Speed Racer
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 12:08pmI remember seeing this and having a great laugh. Had I been there, I wouldn’t have known what Keynesian was. The one thing I would have known was that they weren’t trying to say that Obama was Kenyan.
Report Post »Star Spangled
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 12:06pmAnyone want to download this from youtube ? Since they want it off the net it would be funny to download a copy and re upload it to youtube so there‘s 100’s of copies .
here’s a program to use to download from youtube : http://youtubedownload.altervista.org/
Report Post »Bill Pilgrim
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 12:03pmBy darn, they should ban this video! Think of all the poor, offended inhabitants of Keynesia who are getting their good names dragged through the mud! I’ve been to Keynesia, and they’re nice people. Good food, too.
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 3:16pmThanks, Bill, I needed a chuckle.
Report Post »Sardu
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 12:01pmI just downloaded the video via Keepvid…. they’ll never make it go away! Download it and save it on your local drive!
Report Post »Skwerl E. Muckenfutch
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 12:01pmDownloaded for my future amusement. This video is too lulzy and must be saved for posterity.
Report Post »Redwood Elf
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 12:01pmOnce something is out on the web, it’s there forever. SOMEONE has this on a hard drive in AVI format or something, and it will be reposted until whoever’s trying to get rid of it gives up. Anyone with this video on their drive care to give us a direct “download and save” link?
Report Post »tomx1138
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 11:59amThat reminds me of THE MAN SHOW on Venice Beach wanting to end Women Suffrage.
Report Post »Ignorance is the root of all Liberalism.
Look at the crap the runs our schools and our failing government. all built by the machinery on the left.
cinme
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 1:57pmNot only sad but dangerous as well.
Report Post »capitalismrocks
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 11:56amSo, essentially what this is, it shows that the left as ignorant, uneducated and can no longer try to use their empty pathetic rhetoric of the Conservatives being knuckle dragging uneducated voters…
The Left got exposed and now they are try to bury it, as they always do, hide the truth to maintain their facade, sorry…. this is the Internet, once its up, it NEVER goes away…
Report Post »cinme
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 1:53pmPlease be sparring of using the word never. I’m seeing things happening around us today that my catholic school teachers assured us could not happen. The reason they gave was so simple, we know our history. How far away those days seem now. God bless America and keep her safe.
Report Post »petey
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 11:55amIf you make them look stupid,it shows their fragility.Can’t laugh at themselves,instead strike back,by what? Lawsuits.I think the left goes on to show what a bunch of whimpering nincomPOOPS they really are.
Report Post »davecoolworld
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 2:16pmStupid people do not need help being stupid, just ask a logical, clear question…they do the rest.
Report Post »It is just a whole lot more fun to see it on video…kinda like our members of Congress….they excel at that “ability”.
J.C. McGlynn
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 11:54amIt is amazing that a “certificate of live birth”, which, I think, can be written by any state for anyone born alive can be accepted like a birth certificate. After all have been sealed, from birth to schooling to his state senator records, no one can check a resume on him to give him a real job.
Report Post »Cotswolds
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 12:12pmA “Certificate of Live Birth” IS a birth certificate, my friend.
Report Post »oteb767
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 3:13pmI have chldren with “certificate of live birth”. Those certificates – issued by the hospital are not the same as a birth certificate. A birth certificate is issued by the state government. Certificate of live birth can be issued by anyone.
Report Post »Spiny Norman
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 3:40amRequest a copy of your birth certificate from the state where you were born and guess what they’ll send you – a Certificate of Live Birth.
Report Post »not funny
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 11:48amObama supporters can dish it out freely and with gusto but then cannot handle being exposed when they are wrong. They are unusually defensive right now–probably because they know how bad he is as president and don’t want to admit it.
Report Post »Fox
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 11:43amLibs can’t handle it when anyone points out their idiocy. They backtrack, delete videos, hide in the shadows…. they refuse to live in the truth. These vampires hate being in the sunlight — and I don’t mean to compare monstrous blood-suckers to liberals, because I know that’s offensive to the vampires… but it’s the truth.
Come on people, it‘s obvious they’re embarrassed by this — which is a very good thing. They can’t hide their hypocrisy forever. Keep sharing this video with everyone you know. Keep the truth alive and in the spotlight.
Report Post »VRW Conspirator
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 2:10pmthe main problem isn‘t that they can’t take it….they could just say that those fools on the video don’t represent the TRUE liberal …you know…the college educated elites that spend all their life in academic pursuit…not those of us that have to work for a living…us little people in fly-over country…
the main problem is that if you go to any video of the 8/28 Rally…you can’t find 1 NOT 1!! person that acted like them, was illiterate about them, was foaming at the mouth like that lady….NOT 1!! they billed us all as racist hate mongers that want to overthrow the government with a new revolution and install a Theocracy because Glenn called for a return to God in America…..but look…no moronic videos out there of 8/28 people doing anything other than wearing a flag hat or shirt or a Restoring Honor shirt or hat….or a Faith/Hope/Charity sign or shirt….that is all they got….no foaming at the mouth…no stupid wolf head or Hitler outfit….no stoned off their feet college doofus….zippo…that is why they pulled the video….it shows they are what they say we are….
Report Post »TulsaYeeHaw
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 2:19pmWhat do you think the legends of vampires are? They are allegories to people in real life. In medieval times it was the nobility, the clergy, or royalty. In modern times, the MARXISTS!!
They suck the life blood out of society, kill, maim, destroy, enslave, (literally) and in the end, they must have power or “it will all fall apart” (sound familiar?) , and must continue to find new blood to survive. Their victims become them if they don’t die. They must be destroyed.
Report Post »Star Spangled
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 11:41amMore liberal cry babies ! “They can’t show that , it makes us look so stupid !” Exactly ! That’s why we like it .
Report Post »Reagan/Demint.deciple
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 1:37pmThat lady yelling = loser…. NO, I didn’t mean louisiana…
Report Post »alcarfl
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 11:40amWe refer to this as a Yogi Berra-ism. Nothing more. Yes, people sometimes over-react to demonstrate their stupidity.
Report Post »alcarfl
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 11:37amSecond City. Chicago. Hmmmm. Perhaps the video was confiscated at the request of a former community organizer or one of his windy city thugs. Memo: Rahm is back in town, gang. The video was great and on point. Only those confusing economics with origin of birth were offended.
Report Post »wildjoker5
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 11:50amI will admit that I did not hear the difference in the word and thought it was about “Kenyean”. But I still thought it was sad that people wouldn‘t have cared if he wasn’t born in the US.
Report Post »Rogue
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 12:03pmI have to say, two or three years ago, I had no idea what the term “Keynesian” meant. I‘m sure many conservatives still don’t know, and would have had similar unrelated responses to the person asking them questions about it. It’s just amazing to see the double standard in action daily – Liberals can’t stand being made fun of, but are often mean and ruthless when mocking the other side.
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 12:42pmRogue, years ago we didn’t really need to know what it means since we were not in the midst of a marxist overthrow. Now we better know what it means and pay very close attention to what is being done to us by our ‘servants’ in Washington.
Report Post »ColoradoDad
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 11:35amThe truth of their ignorance hurts them. Funny how that works!
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 11:55amBack pedal, back pedal, back pedal. These are the people who elected Obama, know nothing pot heads who haven’t any idea what is going on around them. Everyone should NOT be allowed to vote.
Report Post »Lantern
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 12:34pmIMO, the only people that should be allowed to vote are people that pay taxes. Income or property.
Report Post »Libs can dish it out, but can’t take it.
untameable-kate
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 1:37pmThat would kill the demoncrats.
Report Post »randy
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 11:32amwhat a bunch of dolts!
Report Post »->Click For Brain Enema<-
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 11:29amOnly one person got it. Damn
Report Post »ron the veteran
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 1:11pmand it took her forever to actually read the sign. maybe she was the only one who can read. this is government education at work. i got two words for you america, HOME SCHOOL!
Report Post »VRW Conspirator
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 2:02pmeven the guy that got it was dressed like an idiot….what was up with those dolts….those stoned college kids looked like they were going to a Pink Floyd “the Wall” concert….one with a wolf mask, the other dressed like Hitler, one too stoned to talk coherently…are we seriously letting our country be run by these uninformed, uneducate dillholes??
Report Post »wtd
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 4:24pmThe more amusing punch line is it took them this long to realize the joke was on them!
Report Post »DNDLWLS
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 6:45pmVRW
Report Post »are we seriously letting our country be run by these uninformed, uneducate dillholes??
Unfortunately – yes! 3/4 of my neighbors fit this mold and they are educated – ouch!
Dustyluv
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 11:27amWhat a bunch of LIRARD dolts….
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 11:32am*******
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 11:49amlibturd
Report Post »Decade of Greed
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 11:54amLIZARD bolts!?
Report Post »staythecourse
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 11:55amLOL…..I would imagine there are lots of copies “out there”.
Report Post »dwh320
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 11:56amLOL
And these are the “Academic intellectuals” of the Progressive movement.
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 12:06pmI just think Second City is using their fearful lizard brains, dah-link.
Report Post »Man Up America
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 12:35pmLike, I‘m sure they’re all college educated though! Like, Amazing thought processes. Like, I think we are all dumber for having listened to these fools. Like!
Report Post »blacksmith
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 1:01pmThey are truly cowards for pulling the video.
Report Post »ron the veteran
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 1:05pmboy you democommies are not as smart as you think you are. ya gotta love it when ******** get caught showing their stupidity to the world. what a bunch if idiots!
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 1:20pmand then there is the thought process of liberals that being “second” is somehow a victory?
Report Post »CYCLONE
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 1:35pmHhhaaaaa hhhhaaa hhaaaa …
This is bliss !!!… Oh my dear lord… This is rich… !!!… So rich… !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lmao !!!
… well he actually may be a Kenyan … bur a Kensyian ???? LMFAO..!!!! HIGHLARIOUS !!!
Report Post »Max jones
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 1:39pmThese people have the right to vote! The Lord said,”my children are lost for lack of knowledge.”
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 1:41pm@manupamerica….are you speaking as a 26 year old female? LOL Great one!
Report Post »Max jones
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 1:45pmThe best part of this is that stewart/colbert can’t use the funniest, most hilarious clip that came out of the ralley….now that is funny.
Report Post »Reagan/Demint.deciple
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 1:58pmLIBARD , *******.. correct… call them what you want, it doesn’t even matter if you make a typo, it’s all a mental disorder anyway…lol
Report Post »ascoolone
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 2:08pmits called a book. have they heard of it!!
Report Post »intothelight
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 2:43pmWhere on earth are these nincompoops being educated?
Report Post »G.W. Dobbs
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 8:07pmOne must be cognizant that “Kenyan” is a person from Kenya and “Kynesian” is a person in agreement with the Economic Theory of the man from whence the term arose. What can one expect
Report Post »from a Public Educated man/woman in America? We are fortunate that they can even READ.
Ignorance abounds in the Liberal “brain”.
rebel
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 8:44pmNOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I love second city! So many great comics have come from there. please don’t get political!
Report Post »mizflame98
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 9:32amFreedom of (progressive) speech.
Report Post »bmwrider
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 7:33pmI bet most of the ignorant glenn beck fans on here pronounce it key-knee-jian.
its CANES-ian.
For future reference
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