Mitt Romney Accused Of 'Dying His Face Brown' For Univision Interview (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

[trailmonkee]

Source: DU!!!/Huffington Post

Mitt Romney appeared on Univision Wednesday alongside Jorge Ramos and Maria Elena Salinas, but something was a little peculiar about his appearance -- his skin tone. Looking back at the hundreds of photos logging his every moment on the campaign trail, the Republican presidential nominee is usually not so shockingly tan.

While his orangey-brown appearance on Univision could have been the result of bad lighting or a makeup mishap, left-wing blog the Democratic Underground concluded that Romney "dyed his face brown for his Univision interview."

The claim is not completely out of the ballpark. After all, as Gawker points out, Romney did say "it would be helpful to be Latino," in a video secretly recorded at a campaign fundraiser earlier this year.

Appearing at a campaign fundraiser in Atlanta, Georgia, before his Univision interview, Romney showed a bit more color, but nowhere near the amount of bronze as seen on stage at the 6:30 p.m. ET filming. So while some messy foundation may have contributed to his darker skin tone, that likely was not the only cause.


Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/20/mitt-romney-dyed-face-brown-fake-tan-univision_n_1900707.html

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Huffpo links to Tx4obama's DU Thread http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251101160 nice job!

[HERVEPA]

1. Geez. People's posts on DU are now a primary source. Amazing (nt)

[Raster]

6. Not so amazing. DU has been a bastion of democratic thoughts and ideas for years.

I believe our little message board is noticed a bit more than some of us think. I have seen commentary and memes explored on DU and then hear and see the same on the left-wing media days later.

[Booster]

11. As it should be. There are some really great minds here on DU. Dems would be stupid not to be

reading DU everyday.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

22. It's not just Dems, it's lurkers from the Media.

Not as many as we would like though.

The Washington Villagers tend to start the day with a cup of coffee over Drudge. It's only lately they have been going to the Huffington Post but that's only because they wanna do Arianna and hear her moan with an accent...

[Booster]

31. Made me laugh outloud. Thanks for that. What a picture.

[goclark]

41. Do a google of an issue/ post and you will be surprised

[Cosmocat]

43. One of the guests on Lawrence O'Donnells show flat said it on air

I think it is pretty obviously, frankly.

It jumped out to me when I saw the video.

I was like, you have to be kidding me ...

This is one of those things the media won't touch. But, I do think Hispanics will take note and it won't be something they appreciate. Sort of like his calling undocumented people illegal aliens.

Just a buffoon of the highest order.

[wordpix]

44. It's obvious Tax Dodge Mitt is so desperate he's using orange makeup

His color is so unnatural it looks like his makeup artist came from a kindergarten class.

[sakabatou]

2. Heheh, big news for us in the news

[torotoro]

3. Cringe!

How desperate one must be? How embarrassing!

[gopiscrap]

4. THis is histerical

it would be hliarious if he wasn't so desparate!!!!

[jsr]

5. Well, Mitt Romney is an old Mexican name

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[rhett o rick]

16. Why do you hate the Mexicans? nm

[JoePhilly]

7. Maybe the make-up people at Univision had some fun with Mitt.

[Tx4obama]

19. Romney got off the plane in Miami with the dark face before going over to Univision

See the photo in comment #170 here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251101160#post170

[Spitfire of ATJ]

23. Okay, so it was done in flight.

It would be interesting to compare his color when he boarded the plane.

[JoePhilly]

37. I'd have to check every post to find what you mean ...

you link is one when he is on Univision, and one not.

Personaly, I hope he Univision guys had some fun.

[Tx4obama]

38. Try the link below

Here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=101485

p.s. DU has turned off the 'view all' on that thread so the previous link I posted doesn't automatically go to comment #170 anymore.
But the new link above in this comment should go directly there to the plane photo.

[DJ13]

8. Does Willy Wonka know one of his workers escaped?

[RKP5637]

15. LOL!!!

[mikeytherat]

42. Cuffs and collar do NOT match!

Should have spent a little more time on the hands, methinks.

mikey_the_rat

[wordpix]

45. haha, that really IS a contrast

[robinlynne]

9. hey we are a left wing blog. cool.

[lob1]

10. There may be a break in the case of who stole Boner's orange tanning cream.

[Coyotl]

12. LOL left-wing blog the Democratic Underground concluded that Romney dyed his face brown

This is certainly misstated:

"left-wing blog the Democratic Underground concluded that Romney "dyed his face brown for his Univision interview" "

DU is a forum with opinions! Jeez

[secondwind]

13. who are all those asshats applauding his every remark? They had to be planted.. Hispanics

are not THAT stupid.

[mountain grammy]

14. After reading DU for years, I finally joined

this wonderful "left wing blog."

[Gregorian]

17. He's a political chameleon.

I'll bet if you put him next to members of the fed he'd turn green.

[GreenTea]

18. Of course Romney did-Out of touch elitist Mitt believes minorities, women & workers are as shallow

as he is - all republican assholes believe this shit - they believe they can lie and fool anyone with their complete bullshit and here is republican Romney looking so fucking foolish ignorant and laughable with his "dark' skin - What a complete asshole is Romney! - only the tea party racist uniformed uneducated slobs are that gullible and stupid!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

20. Quick Poll results:

Do you think Romney altered his skin tone intentionally?

Yes! He's obviously trying to appeal to Latino voters.

53.13%

He's definitely tanner, but I don't think it was intentional.

27.34%

No, that claim is outrageous!

19.53%

[Tx4obama]

21. Hello DU :)

I am pretty amazed that this went as viral as it did

[trailmonkee]

26. nice work....

Ain't it fun

[Cha]

24. With the reputation Romney has

created himself..from posing as a policeman, a fireman, a barber from hell, who knows what else.. it's easy to guess that since Mitt has no substance he was going for The Look(that'll Fool 'em).

Romney's been Insulting the Intelligence of the American People for a Long Time.

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h/t http://theobamadiary.com/

[Tx4obama]

25. Huffington Post has TWO articles up regarding Romney's dark face, the link below is the other one

In the HuffPo POLITICS section here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/20/mitt-romney-orange-bronzer-univision-face_n_1900387.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003&ir=Politics


p.s. The link up in the DU OP is the one in the Latino section.

[greiner3]

27. If it's dyed;

He had better have used permanent ink!

[progressivebydesign]

28. People are saying he's back to white today. So it was makeup MEANT to make him look dark.

not a bad spray tan, or golf escapade. His make up people tried to make him look BROWN. How fucking pathetic.

[eyewall]

33. busted

[eyewall]

29. As the RW accuses the media of being petty, why isn't anyone

reminding them of the botox scandal they fabricated with John Kerry?
This brown-face at least really happened and is politically relevant as an obvious case of pandering to a block of voters. It's humiliating in so many ways (and yes I realize that it hasn't been proven what the actual cause of the extra brown is but it's just so in character for Romney to do something like this that it deserves attention).

[NYC Liberal]

30. I think the intent was for it to be subliminal,

so that he'd be darker but you wouldn't really consciously notice it. And they fucked it up.

[eyewall]

32. yep, I think you got that exactly right.

[Myrina]

36. +100

[Raster]

40. Nice!

[Aldo Leopold]

35. Whoa, it just dawned on me how oddly prescient

my rain-soaked piñata comment was.

[bushisanidiot]

39. MSNBC's joy Reid just mentioned romneys "spray tan" on lawrence odonnell!

And she said twitter had great fun with it today. Way to go DU!

[wordpix]

46. since Mittens' white ancestors fled to Mexico to practice polygamy, Mitt needs to "go brown"

????

Makes perfect sense when you're a complete liar and fraud.