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Doug Moe: Pillow fight! UW grad in the limelight for ‘Obama Girl’ video

FOR A while there Monday, this was going to be a column about how a Madison native and UW-Madison graduate named Ben Relles is riding the new technology wave to fame and fortune, with the sequel to his hugely successful “I Got a Crush on Obama” music video hitting the Internet Monday morning and generating approximately 600 million hits in the first hour, with a book deal, HBO special and maybe even a chain of restaurants announced before sundown.