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Big Brother, Where Art Though

A bogus Obama campaign video has been generating a lot of hype recently.  It portrays Hillary as Big Brother from 1984.  It was quickly denounced by the Obama camp.  I think it is worth a look.

In spite of its inherit creepiness, it doesn't do any better a job of promoting Obama than it does of bashing Hillary. It would/will be interesting to find out the source of the video. If it is truly user generated content then it is interesting that some overzealous geek with leet computer skills can create perhaps the most emblematic image in the campaign to date. But I wouldn't be surprised to find out that it is propaganda funded by a politically motivated PR firm as was the case with the Al Gore penguin video. Perhaps to stir up the pot a little in what could be an ugly primary campaign.

Print | posted on Monday, March 19, 2007 7:47 PM | Filed Under [ Politics ]

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# re: Big Brother, Where Art Though

I thought the video was damaging to Obama. It was a very powerful video and was probably damaging to Hillary as well. I find it hard to believe that Obama was unaware. I hope I'm wrong because he has a lot of promise. Your spin that it came from a third source is intriguing. Big brother, where art thou indeed!
3/25/2007 5:32 PM | moniker
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# re: Big Brother, Where Art Though

Well, I guess it came out that it was an individual who worked for Obama's web development firm. He did state that he did it outside of work and quickly resigned so that he wouldn't implicate the company.
3/26/2007 9:27 PM | Jim

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