HILLARY GETS ARTISTIC, BLACKENS RIVAL
Political candidates have done it before, slightly darkening images to make their opponent appear more sinister. Hillary Clinton’s camp took it one step further and heavily doctored debate footage to make Obama blacker. Presumably they forgot the widely available footage on the net which would make the contrast evident. A few DailyKos.com users noticed it first.
The ad, which was played throughout Ohio, is taken directly from her official website and her official YouTube channel. The footage was darkened so much, that the normally red background of MSNBC’s walls appear purple. Obama has a darker face, darker hair and eyebrows.
John Ararvosis of AmericaBlog compared the same debate footage from 3 different sources and noted that none of them had such a darkened hue as Hillary’s ad.
Clearly the image was darkened. The question is “why.”
The Clinton campaign finally responded to the claims. Since the footage is clearly and deliberately darkened, they decided to claim that the ad footage on DailyKos was not theirs. (Note: in spite of this lie, they have not removed the darkened footage from their own website as of yet.)
See the original DailyKos write up with images and video footage here.
Race-baiting continues to be a tool in Clinton’s artillery.
Clinton camp also lied in the ad about a subcommittee that Obama chairs, saying:
As chairman of the oversight committee charged with the force of fighting al Qaeda in Afghanistan, he was too busy running for President to hold even one hearing.
Scroll down to the bottom of the story at this link, to see why this is false.
