The First Great Speech of the YouTube Age

Saturday, June 4, 2011
The First Great Speech of the YouTube Age
Robert Wenzel

Lew Rockwell earlier this week linked to a speech Tom Woods delivered last Saturday in Los Angeles.

A friend later emailed me:

Bob, in case you haven't seen this, I highly recommend setting aside forty-eight minutes and taking a look. You won't be sorry. Over the past few years, Tom Woods has become one of the most eloquent, powerful, and prolific champions of liberty and freedom of our time.

I finally had a chance to view the speech this weekend. Woods delivers the speech in masterly form. He educates, he entertains, he makes you think, he makes you see things more clearly and he speaks of ways the growing power of the federal government can be reversed and why it should be.

My initial reaction to this speech is that what Thomas Paine did in writing Common Sense during the age of the pamphleteer, Woods may have done here in the age of YouTube. Listen to the speech, yourself, and pass it on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp5hMiTS2dg&feature=player_embedded

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2011/06/first-great-speech-of-youtube-age.html?spref=fb