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"1984" Ad Creator Takes on Wolfowitz

April 19, 2007 3:50 PM

ABC News' Teddy Davis Reports: Philip de Vellis, the creator of the "1984" YouTube ad attacking Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., is ready to strike again.   

This time his target is Paul Wolfowitz, the embattled World Bank president. 

The new YouTube ad, which is expected to be released later Thursday, paints Wolfowitz as a “hypocrite,” in the words of De Vellis.

The ad is a take off on "The Office" and it will be called "The Bank."

"It talks about how Wolfowitz said that he wanted the World Bank to be involved in ending corruption and yet he was involved in a corruption scandal," De Vellis tells ABC News. The ad also criticizes Wolfowitz, who served as Deputy Secretary of Defense in the second Bush administration, for his role in "leading" the United States into the Iraq war.

Earlier this month, Wolfowitz publicly apologized for arranging a high-paying posting for Shaha Riza, a World Bank employee with whom he is romantically involved, at the State Department.

De Vellis, who lost his job with Obama vendor Blue State Digital after he identified himself as the unauthorized creator of the "1984" ad, received funding to create his anti-Wolfowitz ad from Avaaz.org, an international liberal advocacy group.

"Global poverty is just too important to have someone like Paul Wolfowitz turn the World Bank into a punchline," Ben Wikler, Avaaz.org's campaign director, tells ABC News.

Avaaz.org launched a global on-line petition last week calling for Wolfowitz to be fired. The group has collected 40,000 signatures from 189 countries, according to Wikler.

View the ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UlhLLiQo2Y

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