Romney’s Faith Speech on UStream.tv
by Patrick Ruffini :: December 5th, 2007 7:46 pmTomorrow at 10:30 a.m. EST, Mitt Romney’s “Faith in America” speech will be webcast live using UStream.TV , a YouTube-like site for live video. The speech will play live on MittRomney.com, Romney’s profile page on UStream, and just like a YouTube video, it’s a Flash widget that’s embeddable directly on your blog. Bloggers wanting to create a sticky experience for their users can embed the player in a post starting at 10:30 a.m. and invite readers to give their play-by-play reactions in a comment thread.
Obligatory full disclosure: I am advisor to UStream, and am really pumped by the possibilities of live, free online video for politics. Just like online video pre-YouTube, live web streaming was “broken” pre-2007. Doing live video on the Internet was out of reach for all but the most the elite clientele. It cost thousands of dollars to stream a single event, rent the sat truck, hire the crew, etc. Now, it can be as a simple as a Webcam + EVDO card — or any combination of a streaming-enabled camera and Internet connection.
In another innovative use of the medium by a conservative, Michelle Malkin has already used the service to hold live, interactive conversations with HotAir readers. (Each UStream video features a chat room where users can pose questions and talk with each other.) Your speech, conference, seminar or other live event can now be sent out live over the Internet — and you don’t have to be a Presidential candidate either.
Kudos to Mitt Romney’s team for being the first Republican campaign to jump in.
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I hope he points out that Giuliani’s had more wives.
What the mainstream media fail to understand is that Christians are antagonistic toward Mormons because Mormonism is fundamentally antagonistic toward Christianity.
Mormon doctrine teaches that the LDS church is the ” true Church of Jesus Christ today”. By saying this, they are marginalizing traditional Christianity. If they are the true Church then you cannot be, unless of course you join them and are baptized into the LDS church.
Moreover, there will be posters who will say, but the Christian Churches say the same thing. You Christians are just as bigoted as the Mormons. Traditional Christianity does not say this, it says “Jesus is the only way”.
There is a world of difference between these two perspectives.
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