Amsterdam a ‘cesspool’? Not even close, YouTube hit shows.

Amsterdam, July 30, 2009 [DutchAmsterdam.nl] — “Amsterdam is a cesspool of corruption, crime, eveything is out of control. It’s anarchy.”

So says Monica Crowley, a talking head on the O’Reilly Factor, an opinion program broadcast by Fox TV.

On the program Bill O’Reilly misinterpreted information about the pending closure of some of Amsterdam’s coffeeshops and used it to attack both the City of Amsterdam and — by extension — Barack Obama, whom O’Reilly believes wants to turn the U.S. into one big Amsterdam.

Fox News is itself seen by many as a prime distributor of fertilizer packaged as news and opinion.

However, when 25-year-old Robbert Nieuwenhuijs, a graduate of Amsterdam’s Film Acadamy, saw the program he created a video response destined to become a YouTube hit:

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