The above YouTube video that was introduced in early March 2007 is a hilarious pro-Obama/anti-Hillary "campaign ad" that's a take-off of Apple's classic 1984 Super Bowl commercial where the company introduced the Macintosh computer. The Apple commercial was based upon George Orwell's book Nineteen Eighty-Four. Big Brother.
So I guess Hillary is Big Sister. Obama's campaign denies producing the "ad." Someone with money must have created it because of the copyright issues.
This pro-Obama ad is identical to the Apple commercial except, of course, for Hillary's face and voice replacing that of Big Brother. Here's a screenshot from the 1984 Macintosh ad:
But a couple other subtle differences exist. In the pro-Obama ad, the girl running with the sledgehammer is wearing an iPod, and on her tanktop is the Obama slogan or logo. Pretty slick. I think the Hillary audio and video used in "Hillary 1984" is from Hillary's own online video(s).
From a March 18, 2007 San Francisco Chronicle story titled Political video smackdown :
And Obama's campaign says it had absolutely nothing to do with the video that attacks one of his principal Democratic rivals, New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Indeed, the ad's creator is a mystery, at least for now.
The compelling "Hillary 1984" video recently introduced on YouTube represents "a new era, a new wave of politics ... because it's not about Obama," said Peter Leyden, director of the New Politics Institute, a San Francisco-based think tank on politics and new media. "It's about the end of the broadcast era."
The ad is proof that "anybody can do powerful emotional ads ... and the campaigns are no longer in control," Rosenberg said. "It will no longer be a top-down candidate message; that's a 20th century broadcast model." It also dramatizes that today, political activists with the Internet as their ammunition have gone from being "just donors to the cause," he said, "to being partners in the fight. And they don't have to wait for permission."Here's Apple's 1984 Macintosh Super Bowl commercial for comparison :
Side note: "[ George Orwell ] is best known for two novels critical of fascism, stalinism and totalitarianism written and published towards the end of his life: Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four."
C.S. Lewis wrote an essay about Orwell, and Lewis believes Animal Farm is a better story than Nineteen Eighty-Four. Lewis wrote :
"For [1984] seems to me to be merely a flawed, interesting book; but the Farm is a work of genius which may well outlive the particular and (let us hope) temporary conditions that provoked it."
