| Marco Rubio, (recently) chair of the Select Committee to Protect Private Property Rights, has been revealed to have stolen elements from his new website, marcorubio.com, straight from the popular website Hulu.com.
The theft was first noticed by a tweet by Matt Ortega, a former co-worker of mine, who followed up over at his blog in a post, "One of These Things Looks Exactly Like the Other."
Take a look at the images at his site, side-by-side. Then a closer look at the gradient, the bar, and the text. A perfect match, in every respect.
Clearly Rubio didn't create the website personally, but the first and obvious question is what action will he take once his campaign discovers what's actually pretty shocking -- particularly for how directly elements and images were lifted. We're not talking about being inspired here, these are images copied from one server and saved onto another. Will there be a symbolic slap-on-the-wrist? We'll see.
I mean, they didn't even bother to change the filenames. Literally, the same images used as background, pixel-for-pixel.
http://marcorubio.com/images/nav-background.gif
http://static.hulu.com/images/nav-background.gif
(Images/screenshots saved in case they try to purge the evidence.)
Note to whoever created this website -- presumably David All's team (see update), since he was hyping its "style" as something fresh: If you're going to rip someone off, make sure it's not one of the most popular websites in the entire Internet.
And speaking of David All's Miami "style..." Disclaimer: I work at SEIU doing new media stuff, but this was all done on my own time, with my own stuff, and is unrelated to it. I guess a big part of me just misses Florida political blogging, heh. Update: In case there was any doubt, the CSS file attributes David All. Update 2: They have changed the design, slightly. Mainly the coloring. |
