万花筒 Kaleidoscope 2007-03-22&23, 充满争议的竞选广告

It's a portrait of Hillary Clinton unflattering this angle released by an anonymous¹ creator borrowing liberally part in the pond from an old ad for Apple computers. The ad ends with the web address for Sen. Barack Obama, Clinton's main rival for the democratic presidential nomination² at least for now. But he denies having anything to do with it.

We knew nothing about it, given what it looks like. We don't have the technical capacity to create something like that, though it's pretty extraordinary.

So who is responsible, it was posted by someone called "ParkRidge47", presumably named for the Chicago suburb and the year in which Clinton was born. But that's all anyone knows.

It is pretty sleek³ though, doesn't that indicate that somebody knows what they are doing?
Er, actually what it indicates is the technology has become easier to work with.

Micah Sifry is the editor of a political website called TechPresident.com.
You don't have to be a high-paid political consultant⁴ necessarily to do this anymore.

The fact is you don't have to be any kind of political consultant to do this and that's a potential nightmare for candidates.

That voter-generated content is the wild card in 2008.

....

And YouTube has clearly moved beyond its role as the political got-you site.

November, 2008.

If the Clinton campaign wants to respond to this, it'd better to be quick. This video had already been viewed by more than a million people online before broadcasters discovered it. Now total viewership is well north of 8 million as the video's migrated off the internet from YouTube to your tube.

Richard Schlesinger, CBS NEWS, New York.

1 anonymous   

adj.无名的；匿名的；无特色的

参考例句：

• Sending anonymous letters is a cowardly act.寄匿名信是懦夫的行为。
• The author wishes to remain anonymous.作者希望姓名不公开。

2 nomination   

n.提名，任命，提名权

参考例句：

• John is favourite to get the nomination for club president.约翰最有希望被提名为俱乐部主席。
• Few people pronounced for his nomination.很少人表示赞成他的提名。

3 sleek   

adj.光滑的，井然有序的；v.使光滑，梳拢

参考例句：

• Women preferred sleek,shiny hair with little decoration.女士们更喜欢略加修饰的光滑闪亮型秀发。
• The horse's coat was sleek and glossy.这匹马全身润泽有光。

4 consultant   

n.顾问；会诊医师，专科医生

参考例句：

• He is a consultant on law affairs to the mayor.他是市长的一个法律顾问。
• Originally,Gar had agreed to come up as a consultant.原来，加尔只答应来充当我们的顾问。