In early June 2009, Blumenthal posted a 3-minute video on YouTube, titled "Feeling the Hate in Jerusalem on the Eve of Obama's Cairo Address". The video was a photo montage of possibly drunk Jewish-American young people in Jerusalem recorded the day before President Barack Obama's Cairo address on June 4. Some youths used obscenities and racist rhetoric about President Obama and Arabs, referring to Obama as a "nigger" and "like a terrorist". According to "The Jerusalem Post", the video "garnered massive exposure and caused a firestorm in the media and the Jewish world". A Bradley Burston op-ed in "Haaretz" described the video as "an overnight Internet sensation".