Clinton, Obama deny association with YouTube post

BOTH campaigns for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama say they know nothing about a new campaign advertisement airing on YouTube that attempts to cast the Democratic frontrunner and New York senator as Big Brother.

The advert uses footage from the 1984 Super Bowl commercial produced by Ridley Scott for Apple Computer but splices in footage from Clinton on the presidential campaign trail.

Borrowing the themes in George Orwell’s book in which Big Brother forces conformity among the masses, the updated ad shows Ms Clinton’s face on a large video screen as she talks with the public. Human drones mindlessly watch until a female athlete carrying a sledgehammer smashes the screen.

The end of the ad says: “On January 14th, the Democratic primary will begin. And you will see why 2008 won’t be like ‘1984’”. The screen then fades to an updated Apple logo showing a rainbow coloured O and the web address BarackObama.com at the bottom.

Text to the right of the video says: “Make up your own mind. Decide for yourself who should be our next president.” The ad’s poster, named ParkRidge47, is anonymous except that he or she is listed as age 59.