Posted on 03/22/2007 8:25:56 AM PDT by Lucky9teen
(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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