Hannan Makes the MSM ... In America
Iain Dale 12:55 AM
Fox News's Neil Kavuto interviews Dan Hannan about his Youtube video and his views on the current crisis. I wonder when a British TV broadcaster might get around to doing the same. 33O,OOO
Daniel Hannan with Martin Jay.
Interview on the EU and its various implications for the UK -
Daniel Hannan noted Journalist and MEP FOR S.E. ENGLAND.
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This is great!!!!!!
British MEP Daniel Hannan Talks with Glenn Beck
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British MEP Daniel Hannan Talks with Cavuto
Part 1:
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Part 2:
http://www.liveleak
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This video is a phenomenom to be welcomed!
TELEGRAPH Blogs 25.3.09
My speech to Gordon Brown goes viral
Posted By: Daniel Hannan
The internet has changed politics - changed it utterly and forever.
Twenty-four hours ago, I made a three-minute speech in the European
Parliament, aimed at Gordon Brown. I tipped off the BBC and some of
the newspaper correspondents but, unsurprisingly, they ignored me: I
am, after all, simply a backbench MEP.
When I woke up this morning, my phone was clogged with texts, my
email inbox with messages. Overnight, the YouTube clip of my remarks
had attracted over 36,000 hits. By today, it was the most watched
video in Britain.
How did it happen, in the absence of any media coverage? The answer
is that political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The
days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents,
and thereby dictated the next day's headlines, are over. Now, a
thousand bloggers decide for themselves what is interesting. If
enough of them are tickled then, bingo, you're news. (Huge thanks to
all those who linked: Guido, Iain Dale, Tim Montgomerie, James
Delingpole, Donal Blaney, Dizzy, Devil, James Forsyth,
PoliticalBetting, Gerald Warner and the rest. And jumbo thanks to all
the American bloggers: you chaps are way ahead of us in this regard.)
What caught their attention? To be honest, I'm slightly perplexed. I
have been making similar speeches every week and posting them on
YouTube for the past seven months. I made one just now: 60 seconds on
how Brussels is spraying money at the European Investment Bank .
Perhaps people felt frustrated about the way Gordon Brown had carried
on without once asking for their votes. Perhaps they would have loved
to tell him what they thought of him, but lacked the opportunity.
Breaking the press monopoly is one thing. But the internet has also
broken the political monopoly. Ten or even five years ago, when the
Minister for Widgets put out a press release, the mere fact of his
position guaranteed a measure of coverage. Nowadays, a politician
must compel attention by virtue of what he is saying, not his position.
It's all a bit unsettling for professional journalists and
politicians. But it's good news for libertarians of every stripe.
Lefties have always relied on control, as much of information as of
physical resources. Such control is no longer technically feasible.
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CONSERVATIVE HOME Blog 25.3.09
Daniel Hannan MEP becomes a worldwide internet phenomenon

About 25 hours ago, Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan posted onto
YouTube the video of speech he delivered yesterday afternoon in the
chamber of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, during which, for
want of a better phrase, he well and truly monstered Gordon Brown.
As soon as I saw it, I also posted the clip onto our PlayPolitical
site and just a day later - with a little help from a Drudge Report
link - nearly 80,000 over 260,000 (as at 10pm Wednesday) people have
watched it, making it the most viewed YouTube clip in the world today.
I have known Daniel for a decade and apart from being a robust
eurosceptic who is fluent in a number of languages, he is an
extremely articulate Conservative. His exposure on the web over the
last 24 hours will have won him some new fans, and I imagine that
they, like those of us who have known of his abilities for rather
longer, would join me in hoping the party makes the best use of those
talents in the months and years ahead.
Jonathan Isaby
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