Until today I was only vaguely aware of the Hillary 1984 “Vote Different” ad, but my friend Tom got me to watch it. In case you haven’t seen it, and in case it gets pulled from YouTube, I’ll post it here. See the iPod the woman is wearing?
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Tom did a little research and determined the iPod was added by Apple itself, and that version was the basis for the anti-Hillary edit. For comparison, here’s the original Apple Macintosh TV ad, directed by Ridley Scott, shown during the 1984 Super Bowl.
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A Democratic operative named Phil de Vellis claims credit, or blame, for the video. De Vellis has been fired from a company called Blue State Digital, which is on the Obama payroll. Blue State Digital has released a statement.
The ad is an incredibly stupid stunt, because just like the original commercial it goes after the wrong target. The 1984 ad labeled IBM as The Enemy, when it should have been Bill Gates’ face up on the screen. Hillary isn’t the evil enemy. Bush is.
Although Bush and Cheney must leave office in January 2009, it is absolutely critical to the future of the United States that they be replaced with Democrats. For all anybody knows this early in the game, Hillary and Barack may become running mates.
The fake 1984 ad does nothing to further the Democratic cause. It’s counterproductive, and it smacks of a Republican dirty trick. If de Vellis is, in fact, a Democrat, he should get a clue.
Sometimes the story behind something is more interesting than the something itself. And there is no better example of that than the independently produced documentary An Audience of One, premiering this weekend at the