Found Footage: Obama reinvents that 1984 iPod commercial

How have you not changed the headline yet TUAW???? This is completely irresponsible reporting. Your headline is innacurate as hell, almost libel actually.

I'd like this a whole lot better if it was Bush as big brother.... would be much more accurate too.

I think this is the another GOP Swift Boating dirty trick...

You'll know this is true if no one claims ownership of this soon-to-be historic ad. It will go up there in the Hall of Fame next to Willy Horton and Daisy (Johnson's nuke ad against Goldwater).

Leave it to Ms. Sadun to write a completely false and misleading headline (then contradict it in the first paragraph!).

This ad was not created by Obama's campaign, but an unaffiliated Obama supporter. The headline makes it sound like it's official.

And - as already noted - it's a Macintosh commercial, not iPod.

Seriously - at what point does a writers' comstant errors and misrepresentations become a liability to a publication? I don't know who's in charge of TUAW anymore (it seems to have gone through a silent shakeup in the recent past), but I urge someone in authority to take a look at Ms. Sadun's "contribution."

Where iPods around? But the lady was wearing a shuffle i think. Anyways. I purchase things based on the design on the box. That's just b/c I'm a design freak and well...why not vote like that. Obama got my vote!

Politics would be a lot more entertaining if all political commercials were like this. Now the real question is what zune commercial could be used by Hilary camp in a response? Perhaps in it Bill could wirelessly send her votes she would never get if they were not married. The commercial however might end sad, because like most songs swapped over zune wifi, most voters sent wouldn't be able to play with hilary, or their support of her might die out after listening to her for three times.

Someone went through a lot of work. It is one thing to change the logo on her shirt. It is a whole other thing to add in an iPod and headphones. How very odd.

Simon, that's not my point (and my lack of respect for what your point seems to be isn't the issue here). Erica emailed me with a link to the Huffington Post blog entry that mention this, but Huffington misquotes the blog where she saw it, John Marshall's Talking Points Memo.

I'm a fact-checker at the magazine I work for. I don't expect hip young bloggers to care about accuracy; heck, Huffington isn't even particularly young and she didn't care about accuracy. But it would've taken only one more click to find out that Huffington was inaccurate about what very little of the story exists at all. (And the headline of this TUAW post still credits it personally to Obama.)

I agree with both Simon and Derek... This is an interesting attempt, but it has turned out horribly. The original commercial was far better.

I highly doubt this is an official ad by Obama's camp. Besides being vitriolic against a fellow party member, it's also a huge copyright violation. More likely this is just the work of an overenthusiastic Obama fan.