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Should we get buckhead on the case? Uncovering fake documents or fake attribution seems to be a specialty.
How did you get that out of the article? Paragraph after paragraph he explains how relatively straightforward doing up something like this would be on a Mac with the right software and skills. "Good chance?" He points out all the places where shortcuts and slapdashery are evident in the video.
There's no conspiracy or coverup evident here in the slightest degree for anyone who has a basic understanding of the rather amazing capabilities of modern computers and software.
In order to postulate a conspiracy, you have to first demonstrate what about the video would require more than one person and more than one afternoon.
The majority of the ad's footage originated with the 2004 ad. Does this still fall under 'fair use' or is this in violation of copyright?
Hillary's Campaign was behind this ad to make her the "victim" of that bad man, Barack Obama. This ad did NOT make Hillary look so bad from what I saw....there are MANY more things that would have.
According to Hot Air's Bryan, there is a good chance that de Vellis didn't create that "Big Sister" ad by himself.
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And yet at the end of the article we see this conclusion: "my ruling would be: Inconclusive to Plausible".
Most of the controversy over how "sophisiticated" the editing was, and that it couldn't have been done by one guy in his apartment, has centered around the iPod and Obama logo on the woman's shirt.
As this article points out, the iPod was added for an iPod commercial (professionally.) The Obama logo on the woman's shirt, if you watch closely, appears and disappears frame by frame, and was clearly added on the fly. Good enough for a one time viewing, but sloppy by professional standards.
This whole thing could easily have been done by one guy at home. The final proof is looking at all the copycat videos that have come about.
You could probably hire 10 different people on rent-a-coder each to do a version of this, for less than $100 each, and 7 would come up with good results.