MarketingVOX: YouTube said Friday it had erroneously deleted and would restore a video of presidential candidate John McCain singing an impromptu song about bombing Iran, reports CNET. During a campaign stop in South Carolina last week, the Arizona senator sang the tune of the Beach Boys song "Barbara Ann," but with novelty lyrics made briefly popular during the Iran hostage crisis in the Carter administration, including the chorus, "Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, anyway."

The clip was deleted by YouTube, which is owned by Google. A spokesman for YouTube said, "It was flagged by our users, we reviewed it and it was mistakenly removed. We have examined the situation and have since reinstated the video." The spokesman refused to answer any further questions.

This is not the first time a controversy has erupted over political videos removed by YouTube. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has documented other videos that it says should not have been deleted.

For instance, the EFF has filed suit against Viacom on behalf of MoveOn.org and Brave New Films, saying a satire of the The Colbert Report was removed from YouTube following a "baseless" copyright complaint.

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