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Posted: **Tue Mar 20, 2007 3:20 am**

LYKE, EVERY1 IS TALKING ABOUT THIS BARACK GUY HE MUST BE KEWL!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h3G-lMZxjo[/youtube]

Posted: **Tue Mar 20, 2007 3:30 am**

So. . . are you implying that Big Brother isn't even the only Brutha running for office?

- Mere "I don't know why people hate Hillary" 1975

Posted: **Tue Mar 20, 2007 3:47 am**

Hey put an iPod on her.
Weird. I had to go look up the original to make sure it wasn't there the whole time, cuz that would have been uber-weird.

That commercial's a miss, though. I don't really know what it's point was, so I don't think it makes its point. Maybe the target market is just way smarter than me.

Posted: **Tue Mar 20, 2007 3:53 am**

i heard that its an 'unauthorized' commercial.

whatever that is worth.

Posted: **Tue Mar 20, 2007 4:29 am**

Interesting to see if this election cycle's ads become more about graphic/visual style than in the past.

Posted: **Tue Mar 20, 2007 5:16 am**

It's been all over the news here. Apparently it was made by a "fan" and isn't official. However, they've been saying that this may be the next big thing in political race. People just making their own youtube type endorsements.

Posted: **Tue Mar 20, 2007 10:25 am**

It was unofficial. RE: Larry King Interview last night.

Posted: **Tue Mar 20, 2007 1:34 pm**

- Mere "I don't know why people hate Hillary" 1975

For me it's her voice. Not so much the voice she uses in this commercial but the the hollering voice she uses when addressing a large crowd.

I especially hate the voice she uses on southern crowds.

Posted: **Tue Mar 20, 2007 1:42 pm**

- Mere "I don't know why people hate Hillary" 1975
For me it's her voice. Not so much the voice she uses in this commercial but the the hollering voice she uses when addressing a large crowd.

I especially hate the voice she uses on southern crowds.

Can't see the video at work but Camile Paglia was bitching about that being under-reported on Salon last week.

Posted: **Tue Mar 20, 2007 5:11 pm**

- Mere "I don't know why people hate Hillary" 1975
For me it's her voice. Not so much the voice she uses in this commercial but the the hollering voice she uses when addressing a large crowd.

I especially hate the voice she uses on southern crowds.
Can't see the video at work but Camile Paglia was bitching about that being under-reported on Salon last week.

I'm at home and I can't see the video. I'm not convinced without seeing it come out of her mouth. Taking into consideration that she's talking louder to a crowd, it still doesn't sound like the cadence of her speech to me.

Edit: Okay, I listened another time or two and I get that it's edited. It doesn't bother me if a little southern dialect slips in from time to time. She did, after all, live in Arkansas for quite a while.

Posted: **Tue Mar 20, 2007 5:38 pm**

Here it is in context

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqj_JGwGTXA[/youtube]

The FOX NEWS edit is funnier. Slanted but funnier.

Posted: **Tue Mar 20, 2007 5:40 pm**

It doesn't bother me if a little southern dialect slips in from time to time. She did, after all, live in Arkansas for quite a while.

What she said.
Get me around some of my more country relatives, and my accent slips in, too.

...and Jason immediately goes country when he talks to his mom, it's pretty funny to hear.

Posted: **Tue Mar 20, 2007 5:47 pm**

I do that too. And you should hear my wife on the phone with her family. Good lord you'd think she never left the Canadian praries.

But Hillary's "southern" accent is just terrible. It's like Minnie Driver's on The Riches. We tried to give that show a shot yesterday and it was like nails on a chalkboard after five minutes.

Posted: **Tue Mar 20, 2007 6:11 pm**

Here it is in context

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqj_JGwGTXA[/youtube]

The FOX NEWS edit is funnier. Slanted but funnier.

That's not her accent, she's quoting James Cleveland and trying to add an inflection to make it interesting - perhaps not successfully.

Posted: **Thu Mar 22, 2007 12:21 am**

the creator came clean.

Mystery Creator of Anti-Clinton Ad ID'd
By JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press Writer

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

(03-21) 16:26 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) --

The mystery creator of the Orwellian YouTube ad against Hillary Rodham Clinton is a Democratic operative who worked for a digital consulting firm with ties to rival Sen. Barack Obama.

Philip de Vellis, a strategist with Blue State Digital, acknowledged in an interview with The Associated Press that he was the creator of the video, which portrayed Clinton as a Big Brother figure and urged support for Obama's presidential campaign.

De Vellis said he resigned from the firm on Wednesday after he learned that he was about to be unmasked by the HuffingtonPost.com., a liberal news and opinion Internet site.

Blue State designed Obama's Web site and one of the firm's founding members, Joe Rospars, took a leave from the company to work as Obama's director of new media.

"It's true ... yeah, it's me," de Vellis said Wednesday evening.

He said he produced the ad outside of work and that neither Blue State nor the Obama campaign was aware of his role in the ad.

"But it raises some eyebrows, so I thought it best that I resign and not put them in that position."

In a statement released Wednesday evening, the Obama campaign said:

"The Obama campaign and its employees had no knowledge and had nothing to do with the creation of the ad. We were notified this evening by a vendor of ours, Blue State Digital, that an employee of the company had been involved in the making of this ad. Blue State Digital has separated ties with this individual and we have been assured he did no work on our campaign's account."

The Clinton campaign had no immediate comment.

The connection to the Obama camp, however, poses a public relations problem for the campaign. Obama has argued that he is a different type of presidential candidate who rejects negative politics.

The ad was guerrilla politics at its cleverest and had become the boffo hit of the YouTube Web site.

The 74-second clip, a copy of a 1984 Apple ad for its Macintosh computer, has recorded nearly 1.5 million views, with an enormous surge in the past two days. The video's final image reads "BarackObama.com."

De Vellis remained hidden for weeks, protected by the anonymity afforded by YouTube and the absence of federal regulations governing most Internet political speech.

The ad portrayed Clinton on a huge television screen addressing robotic humans in a stark, futuristic hall. A female athlete tosses a hammer at the screen, destroying Clinton's image with an explosive flash. Then this text: "On January 14th the Democratic primary will begin. And you will see why 2008 isn't going to be like '1984.'"

De Vellis said he used footage of an updated Apple ad that portrayed the female athlete wearing an iPod. He said he used standard Apple equipment to modify the video and edit Clinton's image into the clip.

Obama, appearing on CNN's "Larry King Live" Monday night, said his campaign knew nothing about the origins of the anti-Clinton ad.

"Frankly, given what it looks like, we don't have the technical capacity to create something like this," he said. "It's pretty extraordinary."

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