Posted on 03/22/2007 7:54:22 PM PDT by Mia T
Vote Different, Vote Smart and the Zogby Poll
Fiddling with perfection shouldn't be done lightly, and Ridley Scott's brilliant dystopian vision is perfection. Staying within the physical margins of the original Apple '1984' ad accounts for much of the aesthetic success of 'Vote Different.'
But there is a problem with the message (and therein lies the impetus for my mashup of that mashup).
Unlike in the original Apple ad, the focus of the 'Vote Different' message is the mindless follower, not Big Brother, or in this case, hillary clinton.
The reason for this disparity is Big Brother. The original Big-Brother image was ominous, looming. The hillary image is not.
Recall that the 'Vote Different' hillary image came from her "I'm in" vid. hillary clinton was chintzed and powdered and gauzy-focused for that video for the very purpose of obscuring her always-present menacing aura.
The resultant hillary image was, thus, the very antithesis of Big Brother... or Big Sister, if you will....
And that is why today's Zogby poll got the results it did. The Democrats were offended. It was they who were the butt of the ad. They are mindless zombies. hillary clinton is just a chintzed and powdered and gauzy-focused celeb on a large-screen tv.
The purpose of my video, 'Vote Smart,' was to put the focus back on Big Brother, back on the clinton menace, back on the clinton abuse of women, on their abuse of power, on their willful terrorism failure. |
VOTE SMART: A WARNING TO ALL WOMEN ABOUT HILLARY CLINTON MY RESPONSE TO 'VOTE DIFFERENT' (Obama-Apple 1984 Ad Mashup) (YouTube video--please FReep) by Mia T, 3.11.07 HILLARY ON THE COUCH: IS MISSUS CLINTON MENTALLY FIT? by Mia T, 01.05.07 STALINIST RISING? HILLARY CLINTON ABUSE OF POWER (WHERE IS THE UNREDACTED BARRETT REPORT ANYWAY?) by Mia T, 2.07.07
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Zogby Video Poll: Backlash! Hillary Benefits, Obama loses in '1984' Parody Ad Skirmish
But new survey of likely Democratic voters shows most won't be swayed by the online video parody
Twoñthirds of likely Democratic primary voters who had viewed the 'Hillary 1984' video now sweeping across the Internet and the American political landscape said it will not change their opinions of presidential candidates Hillary Clinton of New York and Barack Obama of Illinois, a new Zogby Interactive video survey shows.
But the remaining oneñthird of likely primary voters were three times more likely to favor Clinton over Obama after seeing the video, the survey shows. Twentyñone percent said they were either 'offended' or 'bothered' by the video, and that it made them more likely to support Clinton as a result. Just 7% said they were either 'entertained' or 'excited' by the video and were, as a result, more likely to support Obamaís run for the nomination.
Respondents viewed the 74ñsecond video, which was embedded inside the Zogby Interactive survey, before answering questions. The survey, conducted March 19ñ21, 2007, included 1,805 respondents overall and carries a margin of error of +/ñ 2.4 percentage points. The survey includes a subset of 796 likely Democratic primary voters, which carries a margin of error of +/ñ 3.6 percentage points.
SEE THE "HILLARY 1984" VIDEO HERE!
The parody video is a takeñoff on an Apple Computer ad based on George Orwellís novel, 1984. It depicts Hillary Clinton as a 'Big Sister' speaking to 'zombies', and was designed to puncture the notion that Clinton, who has held substantial leads in national public opinion polls in the race for her partyís nomination, is the inevitable nominee and that everyone must fall into line behind her campaign.
Asked whether they were entertained by the video, a narrow plurality of 44% of likely Democratic primary voters agreed, while 40% said it was not entertaining.
While 34% of likely voting Democrats said it was a 'meanñspirited attack on the Clintons,' another 19% said it was an 'insightful commentary on an effort by the Clintons to dominate the Democratic Party presidential nomination process.' Other respondents said the ad was confusing or not very creative. Some complained that such attacks should be saved for the 2008 general election campaign against Republicans. A small percentage of Obama supporters (11%) said they were offended by the 'Hillary 1984' video and were, as a result, more likely to support Clinton instead.
There was a substantial difference in how respondents reacted, depending on their age. By a three-to-two margin, younger Democratic respondents (age 18-29) were more likely to say they thought the video was more of a mean-spirited attack on the Clintons than an insightful commentary. As respondents got older, the less pleased they were about the video. Among those age 65 and older, they were six times more likely to say the video was a mean-spirited attack.
Asked if the Obama campaign should repudiate the video and call for it to be taken down, 43% of Democrats agreed, while 38% disagreed, and 19% said they were unsure. The survey shows an Obama repudiation of the video would help him ñ 38% said such an act by Obama would make them more likely to support him, while 15% said a repudiation would make them less likely to support Obama.
Late Wednesday it was reported that a worker for an Internet development company that is under contract with the Obama campaign was responsible for the video. Until then, the identity of the video creator was unknown. Obama campaign officials had said they had no connection to the video and were in the dark as to who produced it. The producer of the video has been fired from his job. Zogby respondents did not know of the video producerís identity when they answered questions in this survey, which was out of the field hours before the creatorís identity was made known.
The Zogby video survey demonstrates the power of online video in the world of politics today, as more than a third of likely Democratic voters ñ 37% ñ said they had seen the 'Hillary 1984' parody video before taking the Zogby poll. The video only hit wide distribution on the Internet late Sunday night. One in three (33%) said they had also talked about the video with friends and colleagues before taking the Zogby survey.
Interestingly, respondents, including Republicans, Democrats, and independents, were evenly split over whether such videos were a negative force on the political discourse of the U.S. While 45% said it was bad for the political discourse, 45% said it was not harmful. The other 10% were unsure.
(3/22/2007) |
Your video might have been a catalyst for this whine:
~Former President Bill Clinton yesterday complained that its just not fair.~
We're almost a year away from the primaries and she's already in need of his assistance.
BTTT
The takeaway from all this is that hillary can't get elected without her hubby. Take away her hubby-crutch and she'll fall flat.
KJV: My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
The takeaway from all this is that hillary can't get elected without her hubby. Take away her hubby-crutch and she'll fall flat.
Great post. Thx for the ping!
Big Brother is watching you, but are you watching Big Brother?
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With a Q score--a measure of celebrity likability among the hoi polloi--in the toilet, missus clinton can win elections only by running virtually unopposed... And then only with the help of protheses, props, poses, PR machines, scripted appearances, screened audiences, vetted questions, Secret Service barracades, secret police, softball settings and sycophantic hosts... fictionalizing, 'humanizing,' digitizing and otherwise hiding the real hillary clinton. And then we have the baggage.... Anyone else but a clinton would have been summarily laughed off the stage. HILLARY CLINTON'S Q SCORE |
And that is why yesterday's Zogby poll got the results it did. Democrats were offended. It was they who were the butt of the ad. They are mindless zombies. hillary clinton is just a gussied-up, if over-the-(if you'll pardon the expression)-hill, over-produced celeb-of-sorts on a large-screen tv.
The purpose of my video, 'Vote Smart,' was to put the 'Big Brother' back in Big Brother, to expose the clinton menace, the clinton abuse of women, the clinton abuse of power, the clinton willful terrorism failure.
also:
Vote Different, Vote Smart and the Zogby Poll
Hillary Clinton 'Big Sister' Ad Makes Big Ripple: Creator Revealed
MTV News ^ | March 22, 2007 | Gil Kaufman
... While America appears not to be ready for a female president under any circumstances, the post-9/11 realities pose special problems for a female presidential candidate. Add to these the problems unique to missus clinton. The reviews make the mistake of focusing on the problems of the generic female presidential candidate running during ordinary times. These are not ordinary times. America is waging the global War on Terror; the uncharted territory of asymmetric netherworlds is the battlefield; the enemy is brutal, subhuman; the threat of global conflagration is real. Defeating the enemy isn't sufficient. For America to prevail, she must also defeat a retrograde, misogynous mindset. To successfully prosecute the War on Terror, it is essential that the collective patriarchal islamic culture perceives America as politically and militarily strong. Condi Rice excepted, this requirement presents an insurmountable hurdle for any female presidential candidate, and especially missus clinton, historically antimilitary--(an image, incidentally, that is only enhanced today by her clumsy, termagant parody of Thatcher), forever the pitiful victim, and, according to Dick Morris, "the biggest dove in the clinton administration." It is ironic that had the clintons not failed utterly to fight terrorism... not failed to take bin Laden from Sudan... not failed repeatedly to decapitate a nascent, still stoppable al Qaeda... the generic female president as a construct would still be viable... missus clinton's obstacles would be limited largely to standard-issue clintonisms: corruption, abuse, malpractice, malfeasance, megalomania, rape and treason... and, in spite of Juanita Broaddrick, or perhaps because of her, Rod Lurie would be reduced to perversely hawking the "First Gentleman" instead of the "Commander-in-Chief." Mia T, 10.02.05 |
HILLARY!
But as opposed to hillary-on-stage, Al thereon has a saving grace: He doesn't try to appear human. To the contrary, Al Gore embraces his humanoid essence. (In fairness to missus clinton, 'inhuman' is a measurably less salable descriptor than 'humanoid.') To better understand why this is such an advantage for Mr. Gore, simply consider missus clinton's recent 'conversation' (with herself). It was risible. Unintentional theater of the absurd: A chintzed-and-powdered villain, a soulless, angry, arrogant scold, oozing cloying, saccharine-coated evil, pulsating to the metronomic swing of stubby appendages--claws too short to grab its prey. (Gesticulation is a dud's only sign of life... and then only if she has a speech coach to prod her.) A precarious 20th-century conceit, the hillary! construct totters on a crumbling foundation of clinton lies, abuses and betrayals. It should have been no surprise that David Geffen's comments to Maureen Dowd would so easily topple it. But to the average clinton lackey, it apparently was. A barrage of polls are shooting down the endless post-Geffen-imbroglio clinton-agitprop chatter that had called hillary clinton and her machine the hands-down winner. According to the latest Zogby Poll, Barack Obama is gaining fast on missus clinton. The Quinnipiac University Poll released today reports that Giuliani has widened his lead over missus clinton in New Jersey (50-41). But it is this week's Keystone Poll that foreshadows the final outcome. Rudy demolishes clinton in blue Pe-Ay (53-37). But more significantly, hillary clinton's favorable/unfavorable rating is a dismal 32/46. (The other candidates have net positive favorable ratings.) We have argued elsewhere that the only way missus clinton can win elections is to run virtually unopposed, and then only if she remains immobil, hidden, mute, a prisoner of her own ineptitude, repulsiveness and criminality. But of the three, it is missus clinton's repulsiveness--her ugliness--that will do her in. The voters routinely ignore ineptitude, forgive criminality, but they never abide ugliness. Never.
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With a Q score--a measure of celebrity likability among the hoi polloi--in the toilet, missus clinton can win elections only by running virtually unopposed...
And then only with the help of protheses, props, poses, PR machines, scripted appearances, screened audiences, vetted questions, Secret Service barracades, secret police, softball settings and sycophantic hosts... fictionalizing, 'humanizing,' digitizing and otherwise hiding the real hillary clinton.
And then we have the baggage....
Anyone else but a clinton would have been summarily laughed off the stage.
HILLARY CLINTON'S Q SCORE Hollywood take note (WHAT THE HELL IS THIS MORIBUND LOSER DOING IN THE POLITICAL ARENA ANYWAY?) by Mia T, 01.26.07
The power of propaganda Mia T.
Thanks for your work.
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