View Full Version : Yep, This Is Going to Get Ugly....
The Reaper
03-18-2007, 17:22
You have to see this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h3G-lMZxjo
TR
HO....LY......COW !!!!! :eek: :eek:
Talk about a SURPRISE ending !!!!!
I Love It !!!!! :D :lifter
Warrior-Mentor
03-18-2007, 17:45
...and you are surprised why?
Let them eat each other...it's good for the rest of the field. :munchin
futureSoldier
03-18-2007, 17:52
WOW-but is it real. I mean I love it, and I think that if Obama did it then he has balls of steel-but did he really make this?
futureSoldier
03-18-2007, 17:57
Not authentic, but still great...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/18/MNGHNONEPS1.DTL&feed=rss.news
Roguish Lawyer
03-18-2007, 18:47
LOL
82ndtrooper
03-18-2007, 23:16
Nice !! If it were only actually supported by Barack Obama himself it would be even better.
I like the concept and the ending.
Leozinho
03-19-2007, 08:51
It didn't seem quite as clever to me after I found out it's a remake/mash up of Apple's "1984" commercial.
Here's Apple's original commercial, which apparently was controversial at the time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R706isyDrqI
The Reaper
03-19-2007, 09:08
It didn't seem quite as clever to me after I found out it's a remake/mash up of Apple's "1984" commercial.
Here's Apple's original commercial, which apparently was controversial at the time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R706isyDrqI
That was the whole point, if you read the article.
If you were old, like the rest of us, you would have known that. Irony. Sarcasm. Get it?
Can't wait for the lawsuits to start.:D
TR
...and you are surprised why?
Let them eat each other...it's good for the rest of the field. :munchin
Surprised....yes I was.
I had first thought I'd see Sean Hannity's face pop up at the end, with his show's times and dates. :D
Then I thought maybe it'd be, some right wing group's add...(insert your favorite group here).
I didn't think the Dems would start going "Hamster"* so early in the race. I was under the impression that the party of "Unity", wouldn't start in on the mud slinging and going "Hamster"* on each other so soon. No.....that comes farther down the line, if their track record holds up.
So it's good to see that this is happening so early. As TR said......This is gonna get ugly. :D
Going Hamster*.....we all know Hamster's, are the only mammals, aside from traffic/parking/meter maids, that EAT their young. The Dems tend to do that too, then turn around and blame it on FOX news. :boohoo
Peregrino
03-19-2007, 19:11
Walked out of the room after the news was over and when I came back, this ad was being discussed on ET. Waited to change the channel because of the discussion here; wanted to find out what the MSM had to say. Seems the BO campaign is disavowing all knowledge. Apparently the identity of the source is "unknown" (they've ID'd the poster's screen name but haven't tagged the responsible person or group). IMHO it's a great "black propaganda" smear on both Dim frontrunners - one with the truth, the other with an insinuation. My question for the cogniscenti - what part of the McCain-Feingold Incumbent Protection Act will this exercise of genuine 1st Ammendment free speech violate? Unlike the inevitable lawsuits, that one has teeth intended to stop exactly this type of activity. :munchin Peregrino
Wonder no more...guess the creator of the ad has been unmasked.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070321/ap_on_el_pr/clinton_ad
Mystery creator of anti-Clinton ad ID'd
By JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press Writer
2 hours, 33 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - 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 (news, bio, voting record).
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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