Hillary isn’t a particularly scary Big Brother

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A mash-up of Apple’s famous “1984” Super Bowl ad and footage of Hillary Clinton has garnered nearly 335,000 views on YouTube since its March 5 debut. The clip casts the New York senator as Big Brother, and closes with Apple’s familiar multicolored logo twisted into an “O.” Barack Obama’s campaign has denied involvement, and the Illinois senator isn’t mentioned by name. Still, that “O” doesn’t stand for Kuchinich, now does it? In a San Francisco Chronicle story, Peter Leyden, director of the New Politics Institute, gushes over the spot, saying it ushers in “a

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