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July 16, 2012
18:44 • 10 months ago
On Monday afternoon, that video was no longer available. Viewers who tried to watch it were greeted with a fuzzy screen and the message: ‘This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by BMG_Rights_Management.’
Huffington Post reporter Amanda Terkel • Pointing out that Mitt Romney’s recent attack ad, which used a recording of Obama singing “Let’s Stay Together” to sinister effect, was pulled offline due to a YouTube copyright claim. Clearly, Obama’s voice was so much like Al Green’s that it fooled the automatic triggers.
09:20 • 10 months ago

Romney uses Obama’s singing in attack ad: The goal appears to be to make Al Green sound as sinister as possible, and to play up his ties to big-ticket donors. If this seems like a kind of below-the-belt style of attack ad, it’s worth noting that Obama did the same thing with Mitt Romney’s singing over the weekend:

Though in Obama’s case, the attacks stick a little better. But we’re in the period of of the political season where the attack ads appear to be in a race to the bottom. Nobody wins. Especially not the viewers.

 

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