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Is Romney running racist ads?

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Over at Slog, Paul Constant posts two new political ads, one from the Romney camp and one from Obama’s camp.

Let’s try an experiment.

Each ad has brief footage of President Obama. Can you tell which ad is attacking Obama just by looking at a screen capture of him?

Ad one:
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Ad two:
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Now, I realize that it is common to alter the shade and focus, and add effects to political hit ads. Color is typically washed out to display the opponent as less appealing, generic and gray. This can be seen in Obama’s ads where Romney ends up with a green-blue hue and raster lines running through the scene, giving an Orwellian feel (with, perhaps, a touch of Max Headroom).

How do the Romney people make Obama less appealing? They render him out of focus and darken his face.

Huh…why do you think they did that?

Here are the ads:

Comments

  1. 1

    Of course their playing the race card. They have to cater to racists like Bob.

    Speaking of Bob, that particular racist will no doubt be along soon to tell us how gold medal winner Gabby Douglas, like the president’s kids, just doesn’t, um, look quite right. Manish, monkeyish, it’ll be something along those lines. Probably “looks like a man” again, like he did with the president’s kid, because Bob likes to hide his racism under a thin veneer. He’ll probably save “that nigger looks like a monkey” for when he’s with his like minded racist wingnut haters.

  2. 2

    holy shit! I didnt realize obama was black!

  3. 3

    It might be darkened it a bit, but to my eye it looks like the effect is mostly due to an automated color correction. He doesn’t look darker to me, so much as he does redder. And if you look at his shirt it’s pink. This might happen if you told your graphics package to color correct and it saw the bright blue background and tried to balance that out with some red.

  4. 4

    How do the Romney people make Obama less appealing?

    They talk about Obama’s record in office.

  5. 5

    Leftists make bazillions of jokes about Palin’s kids, grandkids. No reason to hold back on the kid with Down Syndrome – he’s the progeny of a conservative so let’s nail him, too. Now it’s jokes about Romney’s wife, even after we learn she has MS. Hey, it’s all in good fun, politics is a contact support. Fair enough.

    Someone on the other side makes a(n admittedly mean) joke about how our current president’s older daughter looks like she could just as easily be his older son and that’s contorted by Doctor Steve as racist.

    I recall jokes about Amy Carter and about Chelsea Clinton, both of whom had awkward pre-teen and teen physical appearance. Somehow those jokes, while similarly mean, weren’t racist.

    As Dems get more desperate into the Fall, the race card will be played with increasing frequency and in increasingly idiotic circumstances.

    You’re kissing the Democrat Party ass in full pucker, Doctor Steve. The tongue flick is a nice touch but you don’t get extra credit for it.

  6. 6

    “They talk about Obama’s record in office.”

    Fail. Why don’t you haters actually talk about his record? It’s always, “he’s brought the country to ruin”, without explaining why. When you do that, I assume you’re just coding “he’s a nigger”. And then there’s examples like the Republican plan for healthcare mandate, dreamed up by wingnuts and implemented by Romney in MA. Strange, the Republican plan, adopted by the moderate Obama, is now “evil soshulism”. It’s your idea, fucktards. What are you, commies or something?

  8. 8

    I saw an RNC ad last night that showed a picture of Obama and it was clear that they had darkened his skin to make him “scarier.” This is just silly.

  9. 9

    @5 ” bazillions”

    Horseshit. Post a comment from an HA leftist who made fun of Palin’s down syndrome kid. You can’t.

    “I recall jokes about Amy Carter and about Chelsea Clinton”

    Thanks for the reminder. That was you guys telling them. That’s when you started going down that road. Now you make jokes about the current Democratic president’s kids.

  10. 10

    “that’s contorted by Doctor Steve as racist”

    Bullshit. It was spewed by you, a goddamned racist. It’s hardly a stretch to conclude that, coming from a racist like you, it’s a thinly veiled racist remark.

  11. 11

    @ 9

    I didn’t say HA leftist. Nice try. Now let’s see you deny the jokes by others – Griffin, Maher, Louis CK.

  12. 12

    “I didn’t say HA leftist.”

    Lots of leftists here, Bob, with hundreds of thousands of comments, and you can’t come up with a single example? Fail.

    “Griffin, Maher, Louis CK.”

    Three? Um, you said “bazillions”. You might have also noticed that anytime someone like Maher did something like that, he was denounced by commenters here. But you wouldn’t mention that, would you? No, you flop around like a fish in the boat, only you’re gasping for excuses for your race hate. Fail again, racist.

  13. 13

    Darryl,
    I think you are really reaching on this one.

    But, I must thank you for confirming that obama is indeed black – I was gonna vote him, but with this new revelation, I gotta go with Romney.

    As silly as that sounds, that is exactly what you are implying.

  14. 14

    You’d have to look at the before and after of the clip of Obama that the Romney campaign used, not two separate clips to make the racist claim. Skin tones do all sorts of different things under different lighting and white balances.

  15. 15

    It isn’t to change minds that the GOP would go down this road. Not at all. It’s to stoke the base, racists like Bob who the GOP invited into their “Big Tent”. We’ll see more and more of it because they know that there would be no enthusiasm at all for their candidate without it. They use it to push Bob’s “hatred for a black president” button so he’ll show up at the polls to vote for the GOP’s loser candidate.

  16. 16

    Doctor Steve, you could really use some new material. By now probably a fresh set of new Obama kneepads as well.

  17. 17

    “A Mississippi mother is accusing police in Jonesboro, Arkansas of killing her son after he was found shot in the head with his hands cuffed behind his back in a squad car.”

    A black, searched first, hands cuffed behind his back, left handed, shot in the right temple. An obvious suicide. If you’re Bob.

    How about telling us again, Bob, how you reached the conclusion that Trayvon Martin was a “thug” who got what was coming to him.

    Save your breath, racist. You said that you were convinced by a fake tweet, posted along with fake photos, posted by a fellow racist on his blog. And although you now know that this was all debunked, you desperately cling to this false evidence as you continue to believe and that Trayvon Martin and his hoodie deserved to die. That’s the way a racist thinks, Bob, in case you didn’t know.

  18. 18

    “Doctor Steve, you could really use some new material”

    I don’t back off from racists, Bob. I confront them. And if you don’t quite get it yet, I’m confronting you. So get used to it and stop with the incessant whining, racist, or it will just get worse for you.

  19. 19

    Now you’re just a liar in addition to being the asshole you’ve always been, Doctor Steve. I said nothing of the sort.

  22. 22

    I see that you’re not going back to the open thread where you made a complete ass of yourself. Again.

  23. 23

    “Now you’re just a liar in addition to being the asshole”

    Your lying about lying, but then, you’re a racist. No surprise there. Show me some spine, Bob, and show your racist pride. Tell us more about your visions of militias roaming the streets of Detroit, shooting blacks on sight. Or are you going to deny that one too?

  24. 24

    Why does Romney put himself and his wife in gray at the end of his own commercial?

  26. 26

    @ 25

    I wonder if tomorrow morning you’ll be feeling so happy you posted a link to an article with this headine, RR:

    The Bikini Graph is back: 115,000 jobs added, unemployment drops to 8.1%

    With the workforce shrinking:

    http://hotair.com/archives/201.....p-in-july/

    jobless claims rising:

    http://www.marketwatch.com/sto.....2-81034632

    and consensus opinions of new job creation in July well below those in May:

    Economists surveyed by MarketWatch forecast that the U.S. added 100,000 jobs last month, up from an initial estimate of 80,000 in June.

    I think your May article, Roger, might end up being the ‘good old days’.

    Look at 2011 Q4 GDP growth, RR. Then look at 2012 Q1, Q2, and projected Q3 GDP. Now plot the points.

    That’s not a bikini shape, RR. That’s a slide.

    To recession.

  27. 27

    @24
    A color photo of Romney at the end would have really jumped out at you and taken the focus off of Obama.

  29. 29

    Now is:

    the church’s congregation had decided that the Wilsons, an African American couple, could not tie the knot in their church.

    “The church congregation had decided no black could be married at that church, and that if he went on to marry her, then they would vote [the pastor] out the church,” Charles Wilson told Fox.

    Is racism.

    However, that story also come with this:

    The townspeople of Crystal Springs, Miss. have rallied together to support Charles and Te’Andrea Wilson after they were banned from marrying in their local Baptist church.

    The handful of haters got shut down by the rest of the community. ;-)

  30. 30

    “The handful of haters got shut down by the rest of the community. ;-)”

    Scary, huh, Bob? People shutting down racists like you. I’ll always stand with people like that against racists like you.

  31. 31

    I saw an RNC ad last night that showed a picture of Obama and it was clear that they had darkened his skin to make him “scarier.” This is just silly.

    You mean how someone made Condi Rice’s eyes strange?

  33. 33

    Wow, the dummocrats are reaching all-time levels of desperation.
    What about the economy?
    What about Solyndra?
    What about Fast & Furious?
    What about Iran?
    What about $6 Trillion of new obama debt when he promised to cut $5 Trillion??
    What about high unemployment?
    What about records numbers on food stamps?

    The list goes on & on.
    The boneheads want to talk about anything but obama’s miserable record.

    And now Romney tells Skeletor Reid to put up or shut up. Poor old Harry. The rumor-mongering is catching up with him.

    oh yeah, and how about that Dummocrat attack on Chick-Fil-A? They had a record day Assholes!!!
    http://www.foxnews.com/politic.....-imagined/

    You idiots are clueless…but fun to watch.

  34. 34

    @33,

    Typical teabagging, teatarded bell ringing to get the GOP salivating SOLYNDRA/FAST FURIOUS/DIDNT BUILD THAT/BIRTH CERTIFICATE/

    Just keep praying for that recession, won’t make it happen, but tebagging for Jesus makes us all happy.

  35. 35

    @34–
    Oh yeah, thanks!
    I forgot to include
    YOU DIDN’T BUILD THAT! YOU DIDN’T BUILD THAT!YOU DIDN’T BUILD THAT!YOU DIDN’T BUILD THAT!YOU DIDN’T BUILD THAT!YOU DIDN’T BUILD THAT!YOU DIDN’T BUILD THAT!YOU DIDN’T BUILD THAT!YOU DIDN’T BUILD THAT!YOU DIDN’T BUILD THAT!YOU DIDN’T BUILD THAT!

    Oh and BTW, I’ve never said I believed in the Birth Cert stuff. But you brought it up.
    But I do think obama lied on his college apps and transcripts to get preference as a Foreign Student.

  37. 37

    @35,

    And I think you’re just another racist teabagger, and you prove it with every comment.

  38. 38

    Technically he’d only be HALF a racist…

    Oh by the way,
    8.3%
    41 straight months above 8%…
    ‘Longest stretch on record’…
    163,000 NONFARM JOBS ADDED…
    150,000 Drop From Workforce…

    BARRY BUILT THAT.

  39. 39

    195,000 Fewer Americans Had Jobs in July;

    150,000 Dropped Out of Labor Force

    175,000 Fewer Women Held Jobs in July; 94,000 Dropped Out of Labor Force

    4.4 Million ‘Permanent Job Losers’ in July

    BARRY BUILT THAT.

  40. 40

    So how do Rethugs think to increase jobs?

    Why by cutting taxes and Gov’ment jobs.
    Give more money to the billionaires.
    That sure will do it, by golly.

  41. 41

    So how did this work under GW? We got…

    Tax cuts for billionaire “job creators”
    Medicare Part D
    2 wars
    Increased “defense” spending
    All of this off budget

    At the end of the GW presidency the economy tanked and the job market tanked. And Mittens plans to do this all over again?

    This will help our country…how?

  42. 42

    So if the billionaires, GW’s haves and have more, created all these wonderful jobs, where are they?

    Should be shown in the job numbers somewhere, wouldn’t you think?

  43. 43

    And the House Rethugs, if they thought the jobs situation is so bad they must think they should work *real hard* on some sort of legislation for creating jobs.

    That must be what those votes they’ve had on repealing Obamacare and regulating women’s vaginas were all about. Their way to create jobs.

  44. 44

    Um, Bob, Mooselini (snow snooki!) et al are realitytv trailer trash and the political gift that keeps on giving.

    If you had any serious reality based political sense, you’d never bring her up. But you do, so you don’t.

  47. 47

    Will Mormons’ racial history be a problem for Mitt Romney?

    As he explored joining the church in 1988, Perkins said he asked Mormons near his Los Angeles home about the racial doctrines. They gently explained that blacks were the cursed descendants of Cain, the biblical murderer, he recalls.
    …
    The LDS church has neither formally apologized for the priesthood ban nor publicly repudiated many of the theories used to justify it for more than 125 years.

  48. 48

    Still waiting for the rujax “proof” from a month ago! Has anyone seen it yet? He’s the insane one.

    Still waiting for the Gabby Douglas congratulation. Anyone seen it?

  50. 50

    46. Puddybud spews:

    All mormons are racist.

    Really? PROVE IT!

    08/03/2012 at 1:04 pm

    http://www.addictinginfo.org/2.....on-church/

    Racism, Romney And The Mormon Church

    April 3, 2012
    By Michael Patrickson

    Recently Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney had a chance to address concerns about his Mormon faith and concerns about a racist doctrine the church abandoned when Romney was a 31-year-old man.

    By dodging the question about his Mormon faith and race, Romney failed to address legitimate concerns voters may have; concerns about Romney’s biography, and Romney’s position on race relations.

    At a Town Hall meeting in Green Bay, Wisconsin, a voter confronted Romney about controversial and racist teachings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, teachings the church officially abandoned in 1978.

    The voter made a clumsy attempt to quote a passage from Mormon scripture – a verse from the Pearl of Great Price, a standard Mormon work, that clearly states that dark-skinned people are inferior to whites. Romney quickly cut the voter off. The following is a transcript of that exchange:

    Voter: OK. Well, um, In the Mormon book, it says there were a blackness came upon all children of Canaan and..
    Romney: [Talking over him] I’m sorry, we’re just not going to have a discussion about religion in my view, but I can—if you have a question, I can answer your question.
    Voter: I guess my question is, do you believe it is a sin for a white man to marry and procreate with a black woman?
    Romney: No. Next question.

    Romney, a lifelong member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, served as a Mormon missionary in France as a young man. In addition, Romney was appointed a counselor in his stake in 1977 when he was only 30 years old, a very high position in the church for someone so young.

    In 1978, giving into considerable outside pressures, the Mormon church officially abandoned their racist doctrine, a doctrine that explicitly taught that black-skinned people are inferior to whites. This means that Romney apparently lived in accord with the racist teachings of his church for the first 30 years of his life. This is something voters have a right to be curious about, and something Romney needs to explain.

    The Mormon Church wanted to evangelize in Brazil, a country with a considerable population of African origin.

    If they were to get anywhere in that country the policy would have to change.

    There was no change of heart. Mormonism is a business.

  51. 51

    I think a lot of people out there believe only white people are racist. That’s not he case. Just check out how certain Asians treat black people who happen to come into Asian-owned stores. Or check out how black people treat the folks who come up here from Mexico and Central America to get jobs.

    Everyone is a racist in one degree or another. Pretending that blacks aren’t racists or Asians aren’t racists is turning a bline eye to the real world.

  52. 52

    Same thing you tell the rest of us, prick…

    …fuck off.

    I don’t answer to you.

    Theop making accusations without links mofo!

    Still no Gabby Douglas congratulations.

    Steve, is rujax “really” black or does he “play” one in a band?

  53. 53

    Hammer blow to the stupid rujax. My next door neighbors are Mormon. They are NOT racist!

    You lose mofo!

  55. 55

    Puddy,

    Are you campaigning to suck the shit out of Romney’s ass if he wins?

    If so, you should stick all the BS you have posted and email it to him.

  56. 56

    @6 how the FUCK is hes brought the country to ruin in any FUCKING WAY SHAPE OR FORM assumed to be code for calling Obama the n-word? What would give anyone reason to think this?

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