"Big Sister" Author Revealed, Then Fired

Arianna Huffington writes on HuffingtonPost that the person who created the "Big Sister" anti-Hillary Internet ad is Phillip de Vellis, who was working for Obama consultant Blue State Digital and was Internet communications director for Sherrod Brown's 2006 Senate campaign. She's still trying to get him to blog about it, but here is what he said so far under the alias ParkRidge47:

"The idea was simple and so was the execution. Make a bold statement about the Democratic primary race by culture jacking a famous commercial and replacing as few images as possible. For some people it doesn't register, but for people familiar with the ad and the race it has obviously struck a chord.

"A friend suggested the idea after reading a New York Times article about the Clinton's campaign bullying of donors and political operatives after the Geffen dustup."

Obama spokesman Bill Burton said, "The Obama campaign and its employees had no knowledge and had nothing to do with the creation of the ad. We were notified this evening by a vendor of ours, Blue State Digital, that an employee of the company had been involved in the making of this ad. Blue State Digital has separated ties with this individual and we have been assured he did no work on our campaign’s account."

Comments

[Laurence Socci]

If a Republican posted the ad the media would have labeled him the devil's spawn. It's nice to see the liberal infighting, though.