Overblown
The coverage of the YouTube anti-Clinton 1984 video is just ridiculous. I think ABC news overstates it best with:
… the attack on Clinton, which ends with a plug for BarackObama.com, is a polished and sophisticated take: the overarching metaphor of the athlete (Obama) rescuing the numbingly mindless public from the evil establishment (Clinton).
There’s a lot I’d like to say about how any mention of “evil establishment” should be accompanied by the name Bush, not Clinton. But instead I’ll just say that anyone who has been paying attention to online video parodies and mash-ups for the last ten years knows that Apple’s 1984 Mac ad is a favorite of video geeks with with too much time on their hands. A while back there was a version of the ad with Bill Gates on the big screen. Apple themselves re released the commercial with an iPod CGI’d added onto the runner. Seriously, this latest video says nothing other than, “That 1984 ad was cool, I wanna rip it off.” Reading anymore into than that is just ignorant.