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So if you’ve been following the whole moronic Hillary-Obama-Apple 1984 Ad-YouTube brouhaha, and if you’re judgmental pricks like we are, you’ve probably been thinking, “Jeez, I don’t see what’s so special about the damn ad. It’s just an old Mac ad directed by Ridley Scott that someone with a little video editing experience dropped a new audio track into and embedded Hill’s face in. Pish!”

But then you find out how bad it can get, after the jump.

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Hey, everyone! The Washington Post found YouTube! Did you hear about those Brokeback Mountain parodies? What about that Snakes on a Plane, what’s with that? Did you know that this new internet video revolution is something of a double-edged sword? It raises issues! Copyright and stuff! MORE »

• YouTube, vloggers, and predictions for 2008 that comprise the wet dreams of the vloggerati. [James Kelm's Home Page]

• New Jersey’s got debts that no honest state can pay. [Gawker]
• The new and improved Bill Keller: now with an army of “demi-human reporter-goons.” [Rude Pundit]
• Joe Lieberman likes splitting hairs as much as he likes combing them over. [Roger Ailes]
• Europeans stunned by speed with which CIA starts front-companies. [Counterterrorism Blog]

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