I was going to include a video of Bush getting booed yesterday, which I plucked from Truthdig here. It was basically a clip from the tv coverage of the game. When I tried to preview the video, I got a message that it was no longer available. I went back to Truthdig. The video played there, though I could tell it was a different video, but I assumed Truthdig had just found a new version of the same video. I copied the embed code, which, to my surprise, appeared to be precisely the same code as that which didn’t work before.
I was busily re-pasting the code in my post, only half listening to the video, when I realized it was an entirely different video. It started with video of yesterday’s game, then cut to out-takes from first pitches past, and interviews with people making laudatory comments about Bush.
Obviously, not the kind of thing Truthdig would post. Is there some way that someone can hack into youtube and replace one video with another?
In any event, I spent quite some time trying to build a post around the video, but that’s a no go now. Suffice it to say that George still doesn’t measure up to Dad, who managed to get booed at the Super Bowl. Not to say that George, Jr. couldn’t do it. He’s just had the good sense not to try.
UPDATE 2: A reader sent a substitute video link, which I posted, but I have now taken it down, because it seems to be playing havoc with the blog on Firefox. Everything looked fine in Safari, so I wasn’t aware of the problem until recently. I think the problem may also have stemmed from the fact that I was experimenting with Ecto blogging software, which I have pretty much decided to abandon.
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