Will the country be punked?

The Washington Post announced yesterday that President-elect Barack Obama, in his endless zeal to drag government into the 21st century, will begin videotaping his weekly presidential radio address and posting the results on YouTube. He will continue to make the audio portion available for radio broadcast.

This brings up several interesting scenarios. First, how long before the outtakes and bloopers become cult classics? That's assuming, of course, that President Obama eventually makes a mistake.

Secondly, it's only a matter of time before someone takes the clips and either does a mash-up version that puts forth a completely different message than intended, or some creative editing is performed on a genuine clip and the result is re-posted. I can see Seth Green feeling obligated to donate his nickles and dimes to supply the homeless with honey as part of Obama's "Change We Can Beehive In" campaign while Ashton Kutcher giggles from inside a nearby surveillance van.

Lastly, I can already see the Keystone Kops routine spinning up where Mitch McConnell and John Boehner try to figure out how to make that newfangled webcam thingy transmit their 1950s ideas through a series of tubes so stoners can watch them from parent's basements across the nation.