Did you know that if you mix equal parts home video camera and personal computer hardware, you can make virtual napalm?

Oh, yes. One can produce all sorts of explosive propaganda using simple household items--if one is so inclined.

For those interested in the Yearly Kos show, you're probably aware that Hot Air has been ALL OVER it from the get-go. Blogging on the Kossacks' Saturday night red-meat-o-rama, Hot Air's AllahPundit had this to say about the Kossacks' amateur video work:

[W]arming up for Harry [Reid] was a video produced and edited by a 15-year-old girl. It was just basic propaganda—images and text over some remix of “We Will Rock You”—but it was a great piece for firing up the base.

I think the Right is trailing in this particular arms race. Hot Air is a great start in countering the Left’s command of the creative culture—the quick response on the Zarqawi video was great—but I hope that this becomes a technology that’s widely adopted.

I have to admit, the Yearly Kos convention highlighted a number of well-done left-wing amateur videos, including the one mentioned above, which, in case you missed it, was put together by a fifteen-year-old. While it was simple, it was effective. There were a number of other videos featured at the conference. One of them, a comedy short titled "Mission Accomplished Man," involved a lot of original live action footage and stunts, including one in which the hero gets run over by a car. (All these videos are available on YouTube, though I don't have the links in front of me at the moment.)

Whether there's a right-left video technology gap, I'll leave to others to decide, but to the extent that you believe it matters, the Kossacks definitely have some video skills to be reckoned with.

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