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You know, it might help if you actually read the article....
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That's not the article I read. There are a plethora of articles, and Entertainment Weekly is not mag I peruse for political insight. *grin*
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Apple’s ad, directed by famed motion picture director Ridley Scott, is legendary in the annals of television advertising. Aired during the SuperBowl in 1984, the ad set in motion Apple’s campaign for the then-new Macintosh computer. It featured a dystopian future world, where legions of drone workers sit slack-jawed watching a large video screen as a young woman dressed in bright colors and a Macintosh t-shirt runs up a center corridor, throwing a hammer into the screen.
Apple’s ad, directed by famed motion picture director Ridley Scott, is legendary in the annals of television advertising. Aired during the SuperBowl in 1984, the ad set in motion Apple’s campaign for the then-new Macintosh computer. It featured a dystopian future world, where legions of drone workers sit slack-jawed watching a large video screen as a young woman dressed in bright colors and a Macintosh t-shirt runs up a center corridor, throwing a hammer into the screen.
The political ad for Obama’s campaign used the same footage, replacing the video image of a bespectacled bureaucrat with that of Hillary Rodham Clinton, Obama’s ostensible principal rival for the Democratic party nomination in 2008. The ad, which has been uploaded to the popular video site YouTube and has made the rounds on political television shows and elsewhere since, ends with a play on the original Apple ad: “On Jan. 14, the Democratic primary will begin. And you’ll see why 2008 won’t be like ‘1984.’”
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The point is not whether a songwriter was happy at how a song was used, but that some people will grab rumor and wave it about as a sword of truth without bothering to check the facts. Yet, when the same rumor (copyright violation) emerges about their own candidate, those people who cried "Foul! Foul!" are strangely silent...
Both candidates and their supporters are human. Mistakes don't make "beasts" "running roughshod" over anything.
Again, I merely ask that people not be hypocrites. It is apparently too much to ask.
[This message has been edited by Jerry Glenn Hartwig (edited September 07, 2008).]