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angka

(1,599 posts)
Sun Apr 21, 2013, 01:52 PM Apr 2013

CO: GOP-on-GOP attack mailer photo altered to remove African-Americans

You've got to see this one to believe it.

http://coloradopols.com/diary/40914/hardball-hackstaff-gessler-mailer-targets-gop-county-clerks



This mailing is hitting Mesa County Clerk Sheila Reiner on her support for House Bill 1303, the Colorado Voter Access and Modernized Elections Act updating a number of election laws and procedures. Very hard-hitting from a conservative point of view, this mailer warns that if House Bill 1303 passes, "felons, illegal immigrants, even the deceased could cast ballots!" Reiner is working with Barack Obama, says this mailer, to "undermine elections and allow rampant voter fraud." "Don't let the Democrats use HB 1303 to throw away your vote!"

By now, some of you have realized, based on your own knowledge, that

1. House Bill 1303 doesn't do any of that, and
2. Mesa County Clerk Sheila Reiner is a Republican...

We're astonished to even report this, but it's undeniable: they have Photoshopped out the African-American woman in the original photo. They also appear to have removed an African-American man standing behind her...

In the ugliest off-year that anyone we know can remember in Colorado politics, it appears we have hit yet another new low–and this one just makes you shake your head, folks. The worst adjectives you can think of really might actually apply to the deplorable gutter politics on display here.


Full story: http://coloradopols.com/diary/40914/hardball-hackstaff-gessler-mailer-targets-gop-county-clerks
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CO: GOP-on-GOP attack mailer photo altered to remove African-Americans (Original Post) angka Apr 2013 OP
Also... That is the WORST photoshop job ever. bunnies Apr 2013 #1
It Really is isn't it. dballance Apr 2013 #4
It's awful. angka Apr 2013 #5
The same careful attention to detail that we've come to expect... JHB Apr 2013 #9
That's the best they could do? johnp3907 Apr 2013 #2
Lazy+disgusting= angka Apr 2013 #7
That's what he gets for outsourcing it to a North Korean photoshop mill JHB Apr 2013 #11
Howzat GOP outreach project going? tanyev Apr 2013 #3
Good grief, why even bother? Do they really think they have an audience for this crap? freshwest Apr 2013 #6
Bump angka Apr 2013 #8
for some reason, that errm... "exceptional"... photoshop job reminds me of this restoration effort: 0rganism Apr 2013 #10
 

dballance

(5,756 posts)
4. It Really is isn't it.
Sun Apr 21, 2013, 02:21 PM
Apr 2013

You'd think they'd at least get a face not right next to the alteration. And learn to blend it in better next time too please. Geesh.

angka

(1,599 posts)
5. It's awful.
Sun Apr 21, 2013, 03:13 PM
Apr 2013

Perhaps the two little smears of flesh over the hoodie on the right side are tabs where you pull her face off like in V.

This is truly as bad as it gets.

JHB

(37,128 posts)
9. The same careful attention to detail that we've come to expect...
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 05:25 PM
Apr 2013

...from Tea Party sign makers.

johnp3907

(3,723 posts)
2. That's the best they could do?
Sun Apr 21, 2013, 01:58 PM
Apr 2013

Copy stamping the face RIGHT NEXT TO the face they wanted to remove? Identical twins!

JHB

(37,128 posts)
11. That's what he gets for outsourcing it to a North Korean photoshop mill
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 05:27 PM
Apr 2013

They save their quality work for NK government photos.

Which tells you something.

0rganism

(23,855 posts)
10. for some reason, that errm... "exceptional"... photoshop job reminds me of this restoration effort:
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 05:26 PM
Apr 2013
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