Hey! Welcome to Barely Digital and Barely Political! BarelyPolitical.com was launched by Ben Relles in June, 2007 with the video "I Got a Crush on Obama". And did 200 political satire videos. Then in January 2009 we launched BarelyDigital.com and that's now home to the series "The Key of Awesome" ------------------------------------------- Here's what people have said about our video networks... "Many people - including this blogger - would argue the sitcom is a dying form and this kind of web video will replace it." - FastCompany.com "It's just one more example of the fertile imagination of the Internet. More stuff like this will be popping up all the time." - President Barack Obama, commenting on Obama Girl in July 2007 "Key of Awesome is an over-the-top music video series that pokes fun at other web videos and popular culture in general. You know those music video digital shorts by the Lonely Island that are now prominently featured on Saturday Night Live? Its similar to those, but it feels fresher because it can strike for a more niche, in-the-know audience." - Mashable, December 2009 "BarelyPolitical continues in its work as the best new-media satire operation around." - Professor Paul Levinson, Infinite Regress "BarelyPolitical - they built a team where all the players bring it to the table. " - The Huffington Post "You guys are the hottest thing on the internet." - Fox News "You're becoming the voice of a generation." ABC, Good Morning America "You gotta love their DIY 2.0 Spirit." Phil DeVellis, creator of Hillary 1984 "Who's Hot? Judging by nearly 3 million viewers the answer is Obama Girl." - People Magazine "The 2008 presidential campaign has become an online popularity contest led by civic journalists on sites like Barelypolitcal.com, with its politically-charged music video parodies" - The Boston Herald "(Obama) is definitely crushworthy. More power to the people who think he's cute." - Michelle Obama "The new face of US Politics" - The UK Times "We like what BarelyPolitical is doing." - AdRants "Leah Kauffman. One of 76 Philadelphians who will shape and change our lives over the next decade." - Philadelphia Magazine "Totally. Undeniably. Awesome." TechPresident "We thought the song of the summer was Rihanna's inspired and inescapable "Um-brel-la, ella, ella, eh, eh, eh ..." Boy were we wrong. It seems that "I Got a Crush ... on Obama," a music video by "barelypolitical," a.k.a. Obama Girl, should easily take the cake." - The Washington Post "That video probably had more to do with shaping Obama's complicated public image — young and exciting but maybe a bit shallow — than any Internet appeal devised by the candidate's own aides." - The New York Times "Dumbass crap" Tubinism, YouTube member. "I fucking LOVE it." chicagoguy19, YouTube member ----------------------------------------- THANKS TO ALL THE PEOPLE ABOVE!