Clinton campaign darkens Obama photo
The Blogosphere is alleging that the Clinton campaign has darkened a photo of Barack Obama in a new ad. Some have drawn parallels between Clinton’s ad and the infamous Newsweek/Time covers with OJ Simpson–this ad doesn’t seem to meet that high standard of race-baiting in my opinion. There’s no doubt the image is darker, although political attack ads have the propensity to darken images of opposing candidates. It is a subtle — definitely intentional — change to the original frame though. AMERICA BLOG has the scoop:
[Top frame from Clinton ad, bottom three frames from last debate]
I went and got the original footage from the Clinton ad, and then compared it to 3 different video clips of the same debate from 3 different sources. I did this so as to take into account any editing, or quality issues, that might have accounted for Obama having darker skin in any particular video. None of the 3 video sources I found showed Obama nearly as black as the Hillary ad does. Click the image above to see a larger version. Look at his lips. Look at his eyebrows. Look at how the red MSNBC background has turned more purple. Clearly the image was darkened. The question is “why?”
[Hat tip America Blog]
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