"Trust but verify" - a slogan from another American president who didn't get many sympathetic music videos - is the order of the day, on the internet, and, for that matter, everywhere else.
We're no strangers to the concept of the sympathetic villain in video games.
Havoc and ruin from the two most unlikeable sympathetic protagonists in video game history: Watch these two idiots again lose everything that makes their lives worth living.
But even for the white people who may be sympathetic, what these videos seem to do is reaffirm the distant from their lived experience.
Flat-screen TVs arrayed about the room show Buffett concert videos interrupted by videos from sympathetic artists like Zac Brown, who may be the icon's heir apparent (see their 2011 collaboration, "Knee Deep").
Shaam, an online video site sympathetic to protesters, posted a video dated Aug. 3 that it said showed at least one tank attacking a neighborhood, which the narrator identified as Hayy al-Hader in Hama.
But this, and the video, a sympathetic portrait of the Ariana district in the north of Tunis, has tapped into the frustration of Tunisians in both poorer and better-off neighbourhoods as they revise downwards their expectations of the country's politicians.
It's anyone's guess if Turner and Kane are indeed playing a role here — whether they're merely exploring an unsavory viewpoint as they did a more sympathetic one in the "Aviation" video.
Yes, enough shotguns were fired in the course of its three episodes to keep the NRA grinning, but its politics were liberal, and its lead a sympathetic counterpoint to every blank video-game or movie zombie you've seen turned into a bloody wall streak by a hurrahing hero.
Those shown a compassion-inducing video behaved in a more sympathetic way than those shown emotionally neutral footage.
Enlarged on video Ms. Canuso projects a sympathetic innocence, but most of her choreography for herself is awfully similar to a girl goofing off in her bedroom.
