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28/03/2008 by
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Viral Friday: Hillary Wasn’t Lying!

Viral Friday is the weekly viral video chart of ViralBlog, showing the 10 most popular viral videos, commercials or user-generated videos, carefully selected and ranked by popularity, viral impact & spread.
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This weeks Viral Friday #1 position goes to Hillary Wasn’t Lying!. In a speech on Iraq policy last Monday, Hillary Clinton recalled facing “sniper fire” on her 1996 trip to Bosnia. But CBS reporters traveling with her made no reference to any “sniper fire” at the time… So was she lying or did she tell the truth? The runner up spot is for Barely Political with Hillary! Stop the attacks! Love, Obama Girl. After a one month absence Amber Lee Ettinger, aka Obama Girl, is back with a new music video. In her latest video she asks Hillary to stop her campaign and leave Obama alone. Milk Chocolate: A Love Story completes this week’s top 3. Leah Nelson and Jay Grandin created this ‘bunny love’ stop-motion video to introduce their new company.

Do you want to see this week’s list from 1 to 10? Go on then, and have a look! We’d like to hear your opinion about the virals. Have fun!


1. Hillary Wasn’t Lying!

Things have not been easy for candidate for the Democratic nomination Hillary Clinton the past weeks. First there was Casey Knowles, the sleeping girl in Hillary’s ‘3 A.M.‘ campaign video, who made a video in which she “rejects the politics of fear” Clinton practices. And now CBS Broadcasting Inc. caught her lying about a trip to Tuzla, Bosnia, in 1996.

In a speech on Iraq policy last Monday at George Washington University, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton recalled facing “sniper fire” on her 1996 trip to Bosnia to visit U.S. troops on a peacekeeping mission. But reporters traveling with the then-First Lady made no reference to any “sniper fire” at the time, and pictures of Clinton arriving at the main air base in Tuzla don’t show anyone ducking or covering. Or do they? (Source: NewsBusters)

2. Hillary! Stop the attacks! Love, Obama Girl

After a one month absence Amber Lee Ettinger, aka Obama Girl, is back with a new music video. In her latest video she asks Hillary to stop her campaign and leave Obama alone. She suggests Hillary has a crush on John McCain; that would be the only reason for Hillary to still be a candidate. The Barely Political video made it to several large media sites, as CNN, FOX News, Chicago Tribune and the Baltimore Sun.

3. Milk Chocolate: A Love Story

Giant Ant from South Dakota is the new company of documentarian Leah Nelson and industrial designer and web-content producer Jay Grandin. Together they produce video content for films, product launches, viral campaigns and music videos. To introduce their new company Leah and Jay created the ‘bunny love’ stop-motion video “Milk Chocolate: A Love Story“.

4. Delta In-flight Safety Video

33-year-old bachelor Katherine Lee became a YouTube celebrity thanks to a safety instruction video for Delta Air Lines. According to the Atlanta Journal Consitution, the redheaded air hostess is a Delta-employee since 1997 and was culled from an initial pool of 1,000 candidates for the safety video. The clip begins airing on 400 Delta flights in about a week, but it’s already a hit online, where viewers have dubbed her “Deltalina.” “I love Angelina Jolie, to be compared to her is beautiful,” said Lee, who has been on TV several times and even proposed to once due to the video. Want to know more about Katherine? Check her introduction video. (Source: ajc.com, Wired)

5. Absolut Machines: Absolut Quartet

To promote the Swedish Vodka brand Absolut Jeff Lieberman and Dan Paluska created the Absolute Quarted; a music making machine like no other. When visiting the website you can interact with the machine. Enter a melody on your computer keyboard and the machine uses this melody to generate an original and unique 2 1/2 minute piece of music. The main instrument is a ballistic marimba, which launches rubber balls roughly 2m into the air, precisely aimed to bounce off of 42 chromatic wooden keys. The second instrument is an array of 35 custom-tuned wine glasses, played by robotic fingers. Finally, an array of 9 ethnic percussion instruments rounds out the ensemble. (Source: bea.st)

6. ABC3D

ABC3D” is a 3D alphabet pop-up book designed by Marion Bataille. The book will be published in October 2008 through Roaring Brook Press (ISBN 978-1-59643-425-7). The above video shows how each of the 26 dimensional letters move and change before your eyes. (Source: Laughing Squid)

7. Bitchslap in Slow Motion

After warming up with the UltraSlo Waterballoon, we now switch to some serious bitchslapping. The video is a takeout of the new Brainiac series.

8. Panic At The Disco Lip Dub

Pregnant actress Jessica Alba had lots of fun appearing in the promotional video for social network site IBeatYou, owned by her fiancé Cash Warren and his basketball playing friend Baron David. The online competition site, where you can compete with everyone via photo, video or text, invited a number of users to lip-sync along with the song ‘Nine In The Afternoon‘ by Panic At The Disco. On her official MySpace blog the Fantastic Four star says: “We shot a quirky group lip dub music video for ibeatyou. Check it out!!”.

9. Volkswagen.co.uk

To promote the new website Volkswagen.co.uk, which took 50 Tribal employees 18 months to build, London based digital advertising agency Outside Line created the above ad. The video appears on several large automotive blogs as Germancarblog and MotorPassion. (Source: Press Release)

10. Callegari Berville Grey: the Wildlife of an Idea

Callegari Berville Grey, a Paris based advertising agency, took the famous Battle at Kruger video and edited it into the “Wildlife of an Idea” video, showing advertising agencies always have to struggle for their ideas. Since the video was posted on YouTube, 18 days ago, it was watched over 40.000 times.