On video, I mean…
In the first 24 hours that my clip of Jeri Thompson visiting our office was up, it was viewed more than 1,700 times on YouTube. The most recent count (several hours old now; YouTube is slow about updating numbers) had it at 1,851 and rising, putting it just outside my Top Ten all-time most-viewed videos (behind that venerable favorite starring Grady Patterson, which was my first big hit, and a controversial one at the time).
But Hillary Clinton hasn’t been resting on her video laurels. Apparently boosted by her win in New Hamphire, her "Hillary’s Heckler" has retaken the No. 1 spot, with 15,514 views. Until this week, it had dropped behind the critically acclaimed "Who Resurrected the Electric Car?," which I had found gratifying, as I count "Electric Car" as perhaps my finest directorial achievement.
But it took Mrs. Clinton five months to get to where she is now in my video standings; Mrs. Thompson has been in this box-office competition less than two days. Watch for her to outstrip my top Stephen Colbert clip within days. After that, she’ll have a steep climb to overcome the iconic "Alpha and Beta of Thomas Ravenel" and break into the coveted Top Five All-Time Videos.
I hope she, or someone, will zoom up there soon. It continues to disturb me that three of my Top Five continue to be my clips from the neo-Nazi rally at the State House. I’d rather be remembered for my arty productions than for sensationalism.
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Perhaps Sen. Thompson can best answer the question “himself.”
Phillip, if this is a true communication from Fred Thompson, then it needs to be posted on every website that pretends to stand for “family values.”
This is not a fabrication, is it?
Agh, I just saw the source. Never mind. Why post a link to The Onion?
Herb, that’s why “himself” was in quotations in my comment.
Maybe Brittany Spears or Paris Hilton will run for office and really make it easy for today’s “journalists”.