June 22, 2011
This video of President Obama taking a crying baby from First Lady Michele Obama while on a White House rope line, and then demonstrating some kind of presidential/parental magic touch, has earned more than half a million views in five days, no doubt in part due to thousands of upvotes on Reddit.com:
By comparison, it’s gotten just 17,000 views on the White House’s WestWingWeek, where this snippet of footage originated (and is buried at the end of the 5 minute video).
Lesson: Politicians, especially Presidents, being human = viral potential. Just ask this fly: