{"id":204,"date":"2010-05-03T10:39:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T09:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=204"},"modified":"2025-03-08T22:56:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T21:56:39","slug":"from-the-war-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=204","title":{"rendered":"From the War Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In Afghanistan, there&#8217;s no beer, and Burger King has gone by the wayside.&nbsp; So bored Soldiers need an outlet &#8211; it helps them (us) stay out of trouble.&nbsp; After all, that&#8217;s how I got started in this video editing gig!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So a group of guys from the 82nd Airborne got together and parodied &#8220;Telephone&#8221; by Lady Gaga &#8211; and quickly racked up an amazing 2 million views!&nbsp; My first thought:&nbsp; they&#8217;ve violated YouTube&#8217;s Terms of Service (using copyrighted material) &#8211; but then it&#8217;s up to Lady Gaga whether the video gets pulled or not.&nbsp; And it appears she&#8217;s cool with the whole thing, given that Google (which owns YouTube) is serving ads to buy the song, among other things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, before I share the video, one question:&nbsp; Is this the greatest War Zone Music Parody to hit YouTube?&nbsp; Or do you know of one that&#8217;s better?&nbsp; Below this one, I share one I came across a few years ago, produced during the Kosovo conflict.&nbsp; What do you think?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Telephone Remake\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/haHXgFU7qNI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesmokinggun.com\/archive\/years\/2010\/0430101afghan1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">About the video<\/a> (from the &#8220;Smoking Gun&#8221; blog)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The &#8220;Kosovo&#8221; video &#8211; the original has since been deleted but someone else was kind enough to upload it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Norwegian Soldiers Lip Sync to &quot;Kosovo&quot; - MUST SEE! 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