'I'd Be Better Off in Baghdad'

The psychotic YouTube hosebeast from hell has lost her lawsuit against her husband.

Now, please go away.

Tricia Walsh-Smith finally got what she was asking for - she got screwed.

The actress who ranted on YouTube that her elderly Broadway mogul husband wasn't giving her what she needed in the bedroom, went too far, a judge ruled yesterday - now she's got just 30 days to vacate their palatial Park Avenue apartment.

And she'll get just the $750,000 she agreed to in a prenup with the millionaire.

Walsh-Smith inflicted "cruel and inhuman" treatment on Shubert Organization head Philip Smith when she took their nasty divorce battle to the Internet, state Supreme Court Justice Harold Beeler said in granting Smith a divorce from his wife of eight years.

"The posting of the defendant's first YouTube video was a watershed event in this marriage, elevating what was still primarily a private dispute into a public spectacle," the judge wrote.

Smith, 76, "has been publicly humiliated and embarrassed to an unprecedented extent," Beeler said.

While Walsh-Smith "has thrived on being in the public spotlight," the respected and very private Smith "has suffered tremendously from this attention," including "suffering heart problems."

Walsh-Smith, 52, disagreed with the ruling, as well as Beeler's upholding the prenuptial agreement that calls for her to clear out of the apartment within 30 days.

"I thought it sucked," she said. "I'd be better off in Baghdad. President Bush is bringing democracy to Iraq. He should try bringing it to New York."

She also vowed to appeal - and to keep making videos.

"I'm a warrior. I'm not giving up," she said. "I'm going to go down swinging."

Wonderful.

Have a nice life, you crazy bitch.

A YouTube Call to Jihad

The jihadis know they have a friendly host at YouTube.

Some background here.

Anti-torture Blogger Back on YouTube

Last week YouTube closed the account of Egyptian anti-torture activist Wael Abbas.

Now it appears he may be able to post again at the video site.

The video-sharing Web site YouTube has restored the account of a prominent Egyptian anti-torture activist, and said on Monday he may repost graphic images of purported rights abuses if he puts them in proper context.

Wael Abbas said last week that YouTube had suspended his account and that around 100 images he had posted, including clips of police brutality, purported voting irregularities and anti-government demonstrations were no longer accessible.

YouTube, owned by search engine giant Google Inc, said in a statement that it was committed to preserving its site as an "important platform for expression of all kinds" while ensuring that it remains a safe environment for users.

"Our general policy against graphic violence led to the removal of videos documenting alleged human rights abuses because the context was not apparent," the statement said.

"Having reviewed the case, we have restored the account of Egyptian blogger Wael Abbas. And if he chooses to upload the video again with sufficient context so that users can understand his important message, we will of course leave it on the site."

Considering YouTube is filthy with pro-jihadi propaganda, this represents a small step toward sanity. Now if they only cleaned up some of the garbage on their site.

The YouTube Sham

CNN deserves no mercy for the fraudulent "debate" they staged Wednesday night and should forever be shunned by Republicans. Not that they had much credibility to begin with, but now they have zero.

Michelle Malkin demolishes them here, while the New York Post notes how within hours bloggers demolished the alleged news network, which is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Democrat Party and the Clintons in particular.

If they had a shred of decency, they would apologize and fire all those responsible for this fraud.

Wednesday night's CNN/YouTube debate was barely over before the network was forced to make an embarrassing admission: One of its supposedly disinterested questioners, retired gay Army officer Keith Kerr, has an official position with the Hillary Clinton campaign.

Wait.

There's more.

Within hours, resourceful bloggers had uncovered the even more embarrassing fact that at least three others who'd been selected to grill the Republican presidential hopefuls had all declared, in various online forums, that they're backing Democratic candidates.

This isn't the end of the world, of course - though, as Malkin notes, it's not hard to imagine the national uproar that would ensue if GOP operatives flying false colors had infiltrated a Democratic debate sponsored by Fox News.

For its part, CNN said it had only checked to see whether any of its so-called citizen questioners had donated to a candidate. Obviously, a little more scrutiny was called for - as those bloggers swiftly proved.

Sad to say, though, the host network's sloppiness was hardly the only thing wrong with the debate. Or even the worst thing.

The basic format - often-bizarre home videos by mostly young questioners who seemed more full of themselves than genuinely curious - essentially turned the event into a circus.

Read the rest.

Mega-Mosque Opponent Receives YouTube Death Threat

The festering cesspool of Islamic radicalism know as YouTube must be so proud of this one.

Opponent of 'mega-mosque' receives chilling death threat on YouTube

A leading opponent of plans to build Europe's largest mosque in east London has seen a chilling "obituary" for him posted on the internet.

The film on video-sharing website YouTube is entitled In memory of Councillor Alan Craig and contains pictures of him with his wife and two young daughters.

It was apparently posted in retaliation for his opposition to the mosque.

Mr Craig has now contacted police in fear of his family's safety and demanded that the video be taken down.

Islamic group Tablighi Jamaat wants to open the 12,000-capacity "mega-mosque" in Newham near the main 2012 Olympic site.

Naturally, these monsters proclaim innocence. They wouldn't dare incite violence, would they?

The video was posted by abdullah1425 whose page on YouTube claims he is 23-year-old Muhammad from Stevenage. It has links to material relating to Tablighi Jamaat.

In one comment to another user posted on the site he said: "Jihad starts from the moment your mother gave birth to you."

There is a link directly to the page from the mosque's official website but a spokesman promised to take it down if anything "inappropriate" was found.

He added: "We are not responsible for the content of external websites. But we condemn totally anyone who incites violence."

None of this seems to bother those who own YouTube, since the video is still there and apparently has been for some time.

UPDATE: Also at LGF.

Veg Out on YouTube Videos, Earn College Credit

Consider this the basket-weaving class for the 21st century.

SoCal college offers YouTube class

CLAREMONT, Calif. - Here's a dream-come-true for Web addicts: college credit for watching YouTube.

Pitzer College this fall began offering what may be the first course about the video-sharing site. About 35 students meet in a classroom but work mostly online, where they view YouTube content and post their comments.

Class lessons also are posted and students are encouraged to post videos. One class member, for instance, posted a 1:36-minute video of himself juggling.

Alexandra Juhasz, a media studies professor at the liberal arts college, said she was "underwhelmed" by the content on YouTube but set up the course, "Learning from YouTube," to explore the role of the popular site.

QubeTV

This sounds like a good idea.

Railing against YouTube, two Republican White House veterans have launched QubeTV as a the conservative alternative.

"The 2008 campaign will be dominated by video and in particular by user-generated video," said QubeTV founder Charlie Gerow, a former aide in the Ronald Reagan White House.

"There are a vast array of young conservative activists and operatives out there armed with cell phones or hand-held that are going to capture the next 'macaca' moment or John Kerry bad joke and put them on Qube TV," said Gerow, whose Pennsylvania strategic media firm, Quantum Communications, created the website.

Gerow insists YouTube banned a video by conservative blogger Michelle Malkin about radical Islamists.

Far too many Internet sites such as YouTube and Digg have been overrun by adolescents. They can have their playground and enjoy the echo chamber.