I’m right, but not the way you think.

I made this modest prediction about YouTube and the debates back in April:

I just wanted to get this prediction on the table before events happened. We will revisit this after primary debates and the presidential debates.

I predict that YouTube will radically transform the way we view the debates.

I am extremely confident about this.

Note: I plan on utilizing YouTube to its fullest extent when any debates roll around. With any luck, I will be one of the persons helping along that transformational process.

This was way back before I heard about the CNN bullshit “YouTube Debate.” I chose to spend that evening with a better mindless entertainment: Transformers, the movie. (Awesome, you should definitely see it.)

Let me admit that I called the debates moronic before I even watched them. But I’ll trust John Stewart editorializing that the politicians gave the same canned answers as before. The YouTube debate is a gimmick, not a revolution.

That being said, YouTube has still revolutionized the debate experience. It has radically changed the way we consume the debates. Instead of listening to CNN’s full pre-packaged form, people can cut-and-paste different clips. If I want to hear all of Ron Paul’s outburts — bam, it’s done. Set it to music, add your own text, and we’ve got an entirely new product.

It is changing our politics in ways CNN will never understand. In fact, even I can’t grasp the changes under way.