UPDATE (March 24, 2010 - 4:35 p.m.) - This afternoon, the Crist campaign released their first TV ad of the campaign - an all negative spot bashing Crist's GOP primary rival, Marco Rubio. Because of the information outlined below, originally published in January of this year, I was shocked to see that the Crist campaign left the YouTube version of this negative ad open for comments and ratings. Less than two hours after tweeting about my shock though, the Crist campaign disabled all comments and ratings on the video, keeping with their previous standard of blocking comments and ratings on all attack ads. In fairness, it looks like the Crist camp has disabled comments and ratings on all videos - negative and positive. Here's the ad, ratings disabled and all:
ORIGINAL POST
Yesterday, it was brought to my attention that the comments and rating functionality on Charlie Crist's new web-ad posted to YouTube have been blocked. At first, I thought this was an honest mistake on the behalf of the campaign, rather than a strategic decision made to keep Rubio supporters from responding to the video. At the time of this post though, the Crist campaign has yet to respond to questions I have posed both on Twitter and Facebook regarding why the comments and ratings have been blocked on this particular video.
ORIGINAL POST
Yesterday, it was brought to my attention that the comments and rating functionality on Charlie Crist's new web-ad posted to YouTube have been blocked. At first, I thought this was an honest mistake on the behalf of the campaign, rather than a strategic decision made to keep Rubio supporters from responding to the video. At the time of this post though, the Crist campaign has yet to respond to questions I have posed both on Twitter and Facebook regarding why the comments and ratings have been blocked on this particular video.
Thus, I dug a little bit more and found that there are actually 3 YouTube videos uploaded by the Crist campaign in which the comments and ratings are blocked - the 3 web-videos the campaign has released attacking Marco Rubio. The 14 other videos the Crist campaign has uploaded to YouTube are open for comments and ratings - all of these videos are positive videos focused on Crist himself. See for yourself:
Blocked comments and ratings:
Open comments and ratings:
