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Thursday, March 22, 2007
Two Minutes Hillary The creator of the now-notorious 1984/Hillary Clinton YouTube has been outed, and has resigned from his job at a firm that provides technology to Democratic candidates. I watched the thing and found it powerful and pointless. Yes, Hillary's pretty robotic, and her flat midwestern speech doesn't help matters. Yet what sort of sense does it make to hitch this eminently plausible and non-scary candidate for the presidency to Orwell's jackboot nightmare? If anything qualifies for "society of the spectacle" superficiality, it's this video, which plays on a viewer's vague acquaintance with a novel in order to make a perfectly reasonable politician look like a Stalinist. |