(2007-03-22) — The revelation that the previously-anonymous “Vote Different” YouTube video attacking presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was actually created by a media expert whose firm works for Barack Obama “opens a new chapter in the story of grassroots political movements,” according to the video’s creator.
“I did this on a Sunday afternoon, with my Apple computer at home,” said Phillip de Vellis, an Obama supporter who, until his resignation yesterday, worked for the Democrat firm Blue State Digital. “What I did represents a new grassroots movement in which the people — specifically the political consulting people — are taking the power of the internet into their own hands and subverting the mainstream media, which as we all know is controlled by the fat cat political machine.”
Mr. de Vellis said that until now those who worked in the political consulting arena didn’t have a voice unless they billed by the hour for their services.
“But thanks to YouTube.com,” he said, “We can now do for free what we used to get paid for, without the constraints that govern professional political operatives. Power to the people!”
Mr. de Vellis said he plans to lead this grassroots movement by starting a “subversive ad hoc coalition of ordinary volunteers from the political consulting industry who have the passion to speak truth to power.”
He has already registered the website name MoveOnAgain.org.
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1 Scott Ott // Mar 22, 2007 at 6:46 am
Anti-Hillary Video Sparks Grassroots Consultant Wave…
by Scott Ott(2007-03-22) — The revelation that the previously-anonymous “Vote Different” YouTube video attacking presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was actually created by a media expert whose firm works for Barack Obama “opens a new chapte…
2 camojack // Mar 22, 2007 at 6:46 am
Anything anti-Hillary is perfectly OK with me…
3 RedPepper // Mar 22, 2007 at 6:56 am
The YouTube campaign is old news.
Obama’s peeps are already revving up their new anti-Hillary campaign in the ‘hood :
“Bubba, yo’ wife so fat, she has to iron her pant-suit on the airport landing strip !”
“Bubba, yo’ wife so ugly, you used to tie a T-bone steak around her neck just to get the dog to play with her !”
“Bubba, yo’ wife so nasty, you used to bring her to the Oval Office just to get out of kissing her goodbye !”
4 JamesonLewis3rd // Mar 22, 2007 at 7:02 am
God Bless America
5 Shelly // Mar 22, 2007 at 7:09 am
I guess Bill’s going to be lying about more than his supposed ambivalence about the war now.
6 RedPepper // Mar 22, 2007 at 7:17 am
“Bubba, yo’ wife so fat, when she go to the beach, Greenpeace tries to tow her back out to sea !”
“Bubba, yo’ wife so old, she used to baby-sit Yoda !”
“Bubba, yo’ wife so dumb, she took a spoon to the Super Bowl !”
7 Shelly // Mar 22, 2007 at 7:28 am
I must say, after traipsing around my favorite blogs, it’s fabulous to see how many libs are freaking out about campaigns losing control, and an individual being able to effect politics. The electorate isn’t supposed to have a voice in any of this!
8 RedPepper // Mar 22, 2007 at 7:38 am
“Bubba, yo’ wife so fat, when she cut herself, she bleed gravy !”
“Bubba, yo’ wife so ugly, when she fell asleep in the garden, the cat tried to bury her !”
“Bubba, yo’ wife so dumb, at the bottom of the application where it says ‘Sign Here’, she put in ‘Scorpio’ !”
9 Hillary Clinton » Hillary Clinton March 22, 2007 8:49 am // Mar 22, 2007 at 7:51 am
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10 Walter E. Wallis // Mar 22, 2007 at 7:58 am
So he was fired for a personal political act on his own time? They may want to re-think that action because it is against the law.
11 Shelly // Mar 22, 2007 at 8:09 am
Mr. Wallis, and yet the Bush administration is guilty of a phony scandal that involved not breaking the law. Libs have trouble defining anything, so they can only react after the fact.
12 Darthmeister // Mar 22, 2007 at 8:11 am
What’s so hilarious about the YouTube™ 1984 video ripoff is if one substituted Osama Obama’s face for sHrillary’s it would have been just as relevant to what both of them really stand for.
Though still a relative empty suit, recent analysis has shown Barack Osama Obama to have just as liberal of a voting record as Ted Kennedy yet he passes himself off as some kind of populist centrist. Liar.
Why is it liberals loathe being perceived as liberals … hmmmm? Even their own conscience seems to testify against their wretched social agenda since they are obviously ashamed or embarassed by their amoral, collectivist-humanist wickedness.
13 Shelly // Mar 22, 2007 at 8:15 am
At Drudge:
CLINTON CAMPAIGN QUESTIONS OBAMA’S CONSISTENCY ON IRAQ…
This from the woman who cannot go twenty-four hours without changing her position on the war.
14 Darthmeister // Mar 22, 2007 at 8:17 am
Phillip de Villis was “fired”. He resigned. This is just like the Democrats saying all eight of those U.S. Attorneys were “fired” when the facts are two had their terms lapsed and weren’t re-upped (nothing special about that) since they obviously weren’t serving according to the President’s good pleasure, and one other had decided he didn’t want to serve another term as U.S. Attorney and in essence quit.
15 Darthmeister // Mar 22, 2007 at 8:18 am
Should read: Phillip de Villis was “fired”? big question mark!
16 conserve-a-tips // Mar 22, 2007 at 8:19 am
Walter, that was my thought, exactly, when I read the article on Drudge last night. I hope he sues the crap out of them.
17 JamesonLewis3rd // Mar 22, 2007 at 8:24 am
Is there any actual business going on there on Capitol Hill? Is anybody on Capitol Hill (besides the administration, that is-we know they are trying their best to do theirs) actually doing their job?
Just curious.
18 conserve-a-tips // Mar 22, 2007 at 8:36 am
And speaking of Global Warming — Oh we aren’t? Scott threw them out there too fast!
Anyway, read this. You mean that we don’t know everything about the universe?? You mean we might not have all the answers about the sun???
19 Darthmeister // Mar 22, 2007 at 8:36 am
What happened to Pelosi’s first 100 hours where she was going to put a watermelon in every cooler and a Cadillac in every garage and get the people’s work done? (crickets chirping)
20 Darthmeister // Mar 22, 2007 at 8:42 am
Great link c.a.t. But apparently Goracle has Global Warming all figured out.
I still remember how astronomers were freaking out because many of their cherished theories about, say, the rings around Saturn, were overturned by the Voyager photos. The universe is far, far more complex than scientists pretend to know. Despite all the technology at hand they’ve yet to demonstrate how something comes from nothing (Big Bang) or how inanimate matter became self-replicating and animate, but they know for a fact that Evolution is true despite never producing an example of where one kind of flora or fauna “evolves” into a more complex novel lifeform. Not even an unbroken chain of transition fossils exist in the fossil record to prove their case.
21 conserve-a-tips // Mar 22, 2007 at 9:20 am
Darthmeister, you gave me pause for thought. Do you realize that these Global Warming Chicken Littles can’t be evolutionists at the same time? They show, by their fear, that they don’t believe that evolution really occurs, because if they did, they would know that everything will evolve to a higher form that can survive under hotter conditions. You know, perhaps we humans would have a layer of insulating hair evolve onto our bodies to keep us cool or warm, like a dog has. Or we might evolve into beings who, like cockroaches, can stand temperatures of 130°. Oh wait - cockroaches - those humans already exist, called liberals. See? What’d I tell you?
22 Ms RightWing, Ink // Mar 22, 2007 at 9:41 am
Is this where I come and sign in. geesh Scott, to much coffee. Going away this a.m. so lots of catching up later
23 conserve-a-tips // Mar 22, 2007 at 9:44 am
Ah yes - Don’t you just loooovvve the holier than thou ethics of the Democrat leadership?
24 Darthmeister // Mar 22, 2007 at 9:47 am
Hadn’t thought of it in that light, HOWEVER, they would probably say the environment is changing too fast for advantageous adaptive evolution to happen. Of course punctuated equilibriists like Stephen J. Gould would say it is conditions like this which lead to evolutionary leaps after long period of biological stasis - pure bunk, of course, but that’s what some evolutionists believe:
Much macroevolutionary research was triggered by the realization that many species appeared to be almost static morphologically after their first appearance in the fossil record rather than evolving continuously. This led to the hypothesis of punctuated equilibrium, which holds that most evolutionary change accrues at the branchpoints of species’ histories rather than over the duration of established species. The fossil record does indeed exhibit many examples of stasis, but contains not only instances of punctuated equilbria, but also punctuated anagenesis (evolutionary histories consisting of stasis and rapid change without branching), gradual anagenesis (constant, directional evolution without branching) and even the gradualistic splitting of lineages that characterized evolution in classical textbooks. Still unclear is whether these different evolutionary tempos and modes are distributed unevenly among taxa, habitats, regions, or ecological categories.
25 Darthmeister // Mar 22, 2007 at 10:08 am
Keep in mind, here’s Phillip de Villa’s confession at Huffington Post:
I’ve resigned from my employer, Blue State Digital, an internet company that provides technology to several presidential campaigns, including Richardson’s, Vilsack’s, and — full disclosure — Obama’s.
This is a case of I-quit-before-you-can-fire-me. I can’t see where he can sue his former employer unless he argues a pre-emptive firing. Leave it to a liberal Democrat. Clearly if this “freebie” videoclip had been done for a Republican frontrunner, the liberal media would be screaming about the need for an investigation to find out what the Republican knew and when about this “dirty trick”.
26 Ms RightWing, Ink // Mar 22, 2007 at 10:09 am
upnorth
Everything arrived and the gift will be used with loving thoughts. Thank ya kindly!
27 Ms RightWing, Ink // Mar 22, 2007 at 10:34 am
Ms. Fienstien said the White House is in a BUNKER MENTALITY. Cool, that makes the original bunker lady feel pretty good.
President Bush, if you need advice about bunker life, give me a call.
28 Darthmeister // Mar 22, 2007 at 10:47 am
It appears John Edwards may quit the campaign to be with his wife since there appears to be recurrence of her earlier cancer. This must be a very emotional time for the both of them since cancer is always a scary thing. Despite being on the other side of the aisle, they need our prayers just like Bill Clinton did when he went into the hospital with heart problems a few years back.
It’s really too bad but I think Edwards probably also saw the handwriting on the wall with Obama sucking all the oxygen out of his campaign as the new up-and-comer. I guess we won’t have the Breck Girl to kick around any more or the anticipation of hearing more of Edward’s poverty hypocrisy. In any case, Godspeed to the Edward’s family and I hope his wife kicks this cancer in the butt. My mother died of metastasized breast cancer which made its way into her spine at the age of 63 in 1993. A terrible way to die.
29 University Update // Mar 22, 2007 at 11:28 am
Anti-Hillary Video Sparks Grassroots Consultant Wave…
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30 woodnwheel // Mar 22, 2007 at 12:07 pm
Darth: You probably know this by now, but from what I hear, the campaign is still alive.
“Despite being on the other side of the aisle, they need our prayers…”
I couldn’t agree with you more.
31 Darthmeister // Mar 22, 2007 at 12:10 pm
My bad about the Edwards’ campaign. I hadn’t realize just how deep the fanaticism of the cult of liberalism really is. Now it appears John Edwards is willing to use his wife’s cancer as a means to jumpstart his campaign. I can’t believe Elizabeth has been talked into this when they also have two children to think about.
It should always be family first, then politics. But not so with fanatical liberals who seem more than willing to use anything which will advance their cause … just like Cindy Sheehan. Her son Casey was nothing like her. Casey volunteered and believed in his mission in Iraq, yet Sheehag dishonors her son’s service to this country and a noble cause even to the point where her own family have disowned her and her husband has left her. People like her are sickos yet she’s one of the spokespersons’ for the anti-war movement. Pathetic.
This is what Cindy Sheehan’s family publicly stated after she went off the deep end:
“The Sheehan Family lost our beloved Casey in the Iraq War and we have been silently, respectfully grieving. We do not agree with the political motivations and publicity tactics of Cindy Sheehan. She now appears to be promoting her own personal agenda and notoriety at the the expense of her son’s good name and reputation. The rest of the Sheehan Family supports the troops, our country, and our President, silently, with prayer and respect.
Sincerely,
Casey Sheehan’s grandparents, aunts, uncles and numerous cousins.”
I can’t imagine how anyone can be so self-righteous and callous enough to pee on their own son’s grave in order to advance their seditious political agenda.
32 Darthmeister // Mar 22, 2007 at 12:11 pm
…Sheehan stole my post.
33 Bill's Bites // Mar 22, 2007 at 12:16 pm
Creator of “1984″ anti-Hillary ad unmasked (Updated)…
A Watershed Moment John Hinderaker There has been a lot of talk about the impact of YouTube on the 2008 election. We saw a preview of things to come, I think, in this video, which has now been viewed around…
34 Harry Daschle // Mar 22, 2007 at 1:05 pm
Hillary’s people have already started their own video of Obama called “Roots 2008″, a takeoff on the 1977 TV drama.
It is being directed by Al Gore!
Get another Oscar ready!
Feel free to use your own imagination as to the storyline.
35 mig // Mar 22, 2007 at 1:11 pm
Okay now here, ‘Britain’s Queen Honors a U.S. Marine’ is a Video worth every moment. Not that Hillary 1984 isn’t interesting but she is not “gallant”.
36 JamesonLewis3rd // Mar 22, 2007 at 1:22 pm
I’m imagining tap-dancing…..
37 everthink // Mar 22, 2007 at 2:03 pm
Scrapplefaces:
Mo trouble, mo trouble.
It looks like Kyle Sampson wants to (confess) tell his story.
Think maybe we’ll see Rove “Frog Walk” yet?
ET
38 conserve-a-tips // Mar 22, 2007 at 2:12 pm
Darthmeister, I have another observation, resulting from what I have seen of the intellectual Christians I know - they would not think of accepting a date, time or place for Christ’s return or for the fullfillments of the various scenarios set forth in Revelation as is often offered by evangelical ministers who claim to be “in the know”. But bring on a former Divinity School dropout who claims to know exactly how long the earth has to survive, how we mere mortals can slow down the process and spreading a movie tantamount to the ↔The End Is Near↔ signs on boulders along the highways, and they curl up in fetal positions and cry out for somebody to “fix it” rather than resting in the Lord, who is in control of all things. Sigh.
39 The Great Santini // Mar 22, 2007 at 2:15 pm
That YouTube™ video was a smash, literally. Hillary was marvelously androgynous as Big Brother, the excited titter’s sledge hammer spoke truth to glower, and, bottom-line, you’d have to be catatonic to vote for her…or for The Magic Negro*. Art imitating life.
[*Anyone hear Paul Shanklin’s “Barack, the Magic Negro” song parody (tune: “Puff, the Magic Dragon”) today on Rush’s show? Laughed so hard I nearly drove off the freeway.]
40 JamesonLewis3rd // Mar 22, 2007 at 3:58 pm
RE: #38~~
conserve-a-tips~~
Amen to that.
41 Darthmeister // Mar 22, 2007 at 4:27 pm
c.a.t., you’ve just successfully defined the New Science for a generation of ill-educated morons.
I wonder what “crime” Kyle Sampson will rat out? Is it the “crime” that the U.S. Attorneys, who only serve at the pleasure of a President, can be “fired” for any reason, political or otherwise (how scandalous!) Read the Constitution.
The last I checked, despite the media carrying the water for the Donks, two of the eight U.S. Attorneys weren’t re-upped when their terms were up (scandal!!!), another chose not to serve another term (more scandal!!!), and two more were thumbing their noses at prosecuting Democratic election fraud and illegal immigration cases. But leave it to the lamestream media to describe all 8 has having been “fired” and these U.S. Attorneys were pure as the wind-driven snow and not involved in a little political shenanigans of their own.
This is simply another unconstitutional powergrab by Senate Democrats and a few dumkoffen Republicans who are overstepping their powers in trying to limit the constitutional powers of the presidency BECAUSE THEY HATE BUSH!
For example, a thoughtful reflection on the terms served by U.S. attorneys under the Constitution reveals the emptiness of Senator Feinstein’s ridiculous argument. The U.S. Attorneys are appointed for four years with the understanding that they serve at the pleasure of the president who can remove them for any reason or no reason. President Bush has been president for six years. That means every presently serving U.S. attorney in this country has been appointed or reappointed by this president.
Yet not one liberal complained when Bill Clinton unceremoniously cashiered virtually all Reagan and Herbert Walker Bush’s appointees even though they hypocritically whine when the current President Bush fires his own appointees. Using Democrats own arguments there is more proof that Bill Clinton and his wife personally benefitted in the mass firings which eliminated the Arkansas U.S. Attorney investigating Hillary’s Rose Law Firm. Absolutely no such equivalence has been advanced with respect to President Bush except the limp charge there may have been “politics” behind the “firings”. Big deal. Those making the charges choke on their own utter hypocrisy.
There has been no crime, no felony, no high crimes or misdemeanors that have been committed here and the Supreme Court would rightly laugh this whole tempest in a teapot right out of its presence with a warning to overreaching Senator demagogues that they were dangerously close to breaching the wall of separation of powers. I hope the Bush Administration doesn’t cave to this pack of drooling jackals now running the Senate and does take it to the Supreme Court.
42 Darthmeister // Mar 22, 2007 at 4:27 pm
Good to see you drop in Santini.
43 Fred Sinclair // Mar 22, 2007 at 5:19 pm
Scott has outdone himself yet again - With 4 new pieces in one day. So if you missed it - from an earlier post today:
#13-Fritz J. - When dealing with people like random (if you really must) always bear in mind that liberals (I started to write “suffer from…” but realize that most don’t suffer at all.) are not totally responsible. They have a genetic aberration which blocks that portion of the brain reserved for thinking.
We conservatives take it as a matter of course when we think. A liberal is incapable of rational thought. To suggest to a liberal that he stop and think is to throw a new and unfamiliar block in his path . Never having done any thinking, the concept is a puzzlement to him. So don’t be too critical of random - he’s probably doing the very best he can with what he has.
Like the brain of a parrot, he’s mainly restricted to repeating the words and phrases his masters have programmed him to repeat i.e. “Bush lied/people died” or “Bush/Hitler, Bush/Hitler, Bush/Hitler” - see what I mean?
Then there are those with only marginal genetic defects. They can think a little bit. Enough to know that if they can control the parrots, they can live in luxury. So they train the parrots, organize rallys to support their agenda. Such as “Anti-war rallys” “Pro Homosexusl rallys” (even providing slogans for their signs)
No random is just another parrot and should be given the same level of credence.
Heirborn Ranger
44 conserve-a-tips // Mar 22, 2007 at 5:31 pm
Darthmeister, I think that what is at issue here, is that these liberal nimrods in Congress have never held a REAL job that has the term “at large” in the small words of the Policies and Procedures manual. Almost all manuals from the employers of regular people have a term that refers to them as employees at large for a specified time or forever. In other words, they can fire you because they just don’t want you anymore.
Of course, this elite “Let ‘em Eat Cake” crowd doesn’t have a clue. It’s called Life Msss Pelosi.
45 Ms RightWing, Ink // Mar 22, 2007 at 5:54 pm
♫ ♫ If I hadf a hammer, I would crash Hillary’s Image
If I had a hammer I crash it in the morning ♫ etc, etc
I saw the video on FOX earlier. Totally cool. That is really cool because it was a Democrat that did it. ouch in any language is ouch.
46 onlineanalyst // Mar 22, 2007 at 5:55 pm
OT but priceless: You, too, can have lunch for $950 with sooooooooper-secret agent Val Plame and her “ambassador” hubby -just call him Joe or Mr. Wilson if you are Dennis the Menace. Details here.
47 onlineanalyst // Mar 22, 2007 at 9:21 pm
When we’re not having fun following the enlarged carbon footprint of Gore’s jet contrails, we can indulge in a guessing game of Where’s Nancy? Wow! Are that gal’s priorities confused!
48 everthink // Mar 22, 2007 at 10:31 pm
Santini:
“Anyone hear Paul Shanklin’s “Barack, the Magic Negro” song parody (tune: “Puff, the Magic Dragon”) today on Rush’s show? Laughed so hard I nearly drove off the freeway.”
Please, let me send you a CD!
ET
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