Last Friday I translated and posted Hugo Chavez’s video (in Spanish) where he says Obama smells of sulfur, during his speech at the Copenhagen Climate Summit,
Vlad Tepes subtitled the video with my translation and posted it on YouTube.
The media, which made a huge fuss over the times that Chavez said that GW Bush smelled of sulfur, has ignored Chavez’s insult to Obama.
About the only one who hasn’t is Jake Tapper, who posted my subtitled video,
At Copenhagen, Chávez Suggests Obama is the Devil and posted my translation.
I wish Jake would have linked to my post particularly since I specifically request it because this is a professional translation, but looking at the bright side, the subtitled YouTube has had over 11,000 viewings – so I appreciate that he picked up the YouTube.
I’ll be talking about this and other news in today’s podcast at 11AM. The Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean will be up later this afternoon.
11,510 views as of 9:30 AM Dec 21 and the video was uploaded 3 days 3 hours ago. So yes at least some few people are seeing it. However i would recommend double clicking the video and reading the comments under it. The pro-Chavez people are quite hysterical about it all, and sadly some of the worst ones appear to be Canadian.
Let them be hysterical. It’s Chavez’s own words.
Ah yes, Fiery Latin American revolutionaries look quite appealing from the comfy confines of freedom and prosperity.
Any time I catch someone singing Castro or Chavez’s praises I ask if they’ve ever lived there. If the answer is no, I ignore them.
Anyway, what is it with Chavez and the smell of sulfur? Is the guy snorting matches?
How have the actions of Hugo Chavez effected the investment environment within Latin America? Commodities expert Robert Petrucci explains…
http://www.alternativelatininvestor.com/commodities2.php
Fausta, remember to cross-reference everything you do; that way, there are more chances that people who see a YouTube video will know where it came from, should an outside linker forget (or omit) to mention that.
In other words, when you post a video on YouTube, ADD THE APPROPRIATE WEBLOG POST’S HYPERLINK TO/IN THE DESCRIPTION of the YouTube video. (URLs are not accepted in YouTube’s outsider comments, but they ARE accepted in YouTube’s posters’ descriptions…) In fact, you could even add the url AND the post’s entire text in the description, if you wanted to…
An example containing an Amazon link as well as the entire text of the related corresponding No Pasarân post:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAYbLdpghRA
Now: If somebody else does the posting, all that is (obviously) harder to accomplish, of course, but it should not be too hard to contact the person and (gently) suggest whether they wouldn’t be able to add a couple of lines to their video description in addition to a couple of tags (say, “Fausta” and “Fausta’s blog”)…