Mayor on YouTube

What's up with this? SCC starts posting a few video submissions and suddenly Richie needs to have his own YouTube video channel to counter the blog?

• Mayor Richard Daley on Monday joined the queen of England and the pope as influential leaders who have their own YouTube channels.

  [...] “This site is an opportunity to talk to residents directly,” he said, noting YouTube’s wide reach.

• Asked whether the site would include videos that were critical of him, he responded, “We’ll see, I don’t know yet.”

We're going to go out on a limb here and say that the answer to that question is a big, fat "Hell, NO!" We'll also predict that there won't be any videos of him butchering the English language, his discovery of heretofore unknown versions of grammatical structure and him showing off his mad spelling skills (S-A-T-E, state)

A few readers have already pointed out that comments aren't allowed on the channel and video comments are posted only after screening. Which kind of makes sense seeing as what we have to go through on this end.