posted on Sep, 5 2008 @ 01:58 PM
Now that this thread has had some time to cool off, and has been relegated to 'joke status' in BTS, I feel I can fully explain my intent without
offending to many fellow members.
I posted this 'Rickroll' Obama cut-up per the ATS guidelines (Besides my short, purposeful one liner of course!) However, my news source, if one
actually click through to the link was 'Comedy Central' itself. I did this to see if anyone even cared to comment out the Comedy Central coverage
of this election is as on point as any of the news casts out there. Nothing about the information in the video was presented to skew Obama's
position, besides perhaps any affiliation with Rick Astley.
Rickrolling
So essentially, it was the act of Rick Rolling the membership that caused this discussion of this video, the internet itself, and the rabid nature
some members of ATS have dived into the mud in this election. So many of my fellow members had been relentlessly trying to find the 'secret' that
Obama has been hiding, whatever that may be (in their minds or possibly in reality). Either way, I feel that many of the responses to the video have
more to do with the nature of my fellow ATS members, and their haste in recent history, this thread included. Also, I feel many of the responses show
the 'cultural awareness' of many of our users, for some, this was their first time being 'rickrolled' and I can forgive your insults as a
transgression of your naivete about these things.
Thanks to 'Night Vision' for the RR Approval of this message!
But a special thanks to 'anachryon' for the insight about what I was trying to do with this thread. So many came to this thread when I first posted
looking for some 'Watergate' scandal, and came away hopefully a bit more sceptical about what they are presented. I honestly was so tired of the
polar opposites of diety/antichrist Dominion type of threads, that I had hoped a few of us getting RickRolled would be a light hearted affair.
Instead, I feel like I created a thread of tantrums similar to a toddler crying because they got vanilla instead of chocolate ice cream.
I doubt a single poster to this thread can say that they think Obama 'wants' anyone to watch that video....
Never Gonna Give You Up,
DocMoreau