March 22, 2007 9:29AM 

# Update on Hillary 1984 

By [David Boaz](https://www.cato.org/people/david-boaz) 

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The [mysterious creator of the Orwellian YouTube ad](https://www.cato.org/2007/03/21/is-hillary-2008-like-ibm-1984/) about Hillary Clinton [has been unmasked.](http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/21/politics/main2594820.shtml?source=mostpop_story) He is Philip de Vellis, a strategist with Blue State Digital, a digital consulting firm with ties to rival Sen. Barack Obama. The ad ended with a plug for Obama, but the Obama campaign had denied any knowledge of it. Blue State designed Obama’s website; the company fired de Vellis yesterday. And Democratic operative de Vellis was properly chastened: “I want to make it clear that I don’t think that Hillary Clinton is Big Brother or a bad person or anything.”

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