Obama Claims No Connection To 1984 Mashup

With presidential campaigns now poised to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in advertising that will blanket television before November 2008, this seemingly home-produced video -- created with software and a laptop, and likely without the benefit of a team of expensive political consultants -- opens a new window, Rosenberg said. It has dramatized a brave new world in which passionate activists outside the structure of traditional campaigns have the power to shape the message -- even for a presidential candidate....Obama Campaigns in Oakland: Political Video Smackdown, Carla Marinucci, San Francisco Chronicle, 3/17/2007

The denials of the Obama campaign of being involved in this sensational remix of the classic Apple advertisement are probably true, but the lack of a suitably outraged response, with a loud call for regulating such abuses is even more telling. If you haven't seen this sensational bit of trickery, here's a link: 1984 Remixed.

If this sets the tone for 2008, fasten your seatbelts....

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