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Color ‘Consciousness’

by John Cole|  July 14, 20059:28 am| 4 Comments

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I guess this is what Rachel Maddow would refer to as ‘color consciousness’:

Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields held an emergency news conference Wednesday to control the damage wrought by revelations her mayoral campaign had doctored a photo in a multicultural campaign flier to include two unknown Asian nonsupporters.

The composite photo, first reported in the New York Press last week, shows the Manhattan Borough president at a news conference standing beside several people, including an Asian man and woman — selected by Fields’ ironically named direct mail company, Winning Directions.

“By and large, I knew all of [the people in the montage], except the two Asians in there, I don’t know them,” said Fields, who conspicuously surrounded herself with Asian backers on the steps of City Hall.

Via Cynical Nation, who has the picture before and after the editing.

*** Update ***

Via Mr. Furious, another amusing photoshopping incident:

Bret Schundler, the right-wing darling running for governor of New Jersey, has gotten busted. That’s right: his campaign used the crowd shot from a Howard Dean presidential rally as the doctored backdrop for a Schundler campaign photo.

Dear Politicians,

Please leave the photoshopping to FARK.

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  1. 1.

    Mr Furious

    July 14, 2005 at 10:23 am

    Dumb, but not quite as dumb (or funny) as this.

    Schundler site used doctored Dean photo

    Associated Press

    TRENTON – For a week, Bret Schundler’s campaign Web site showed the fiery Republican primary candidate in a suit with a crowd of cheering supporters behind him.

    The problem? They actually were rallying behind fiery Democratic candidate Howard Dean.

    Schundler’s image was used to digitally replace that of a smiling Dean in the picture, and the former Jersey City mayor’s name was superimposed over both a “Howard Dean for America” sign and a Dean cap worn by one of his supporters at a Great Falls, Va., rally last year.

    Here’re the photos.

  2. 2.

    Mr Furious

    July 14, 2005 at 10:25 am

    Oh, and of course, there was this one courtesy Bush/Cheney ’04.

  3. 3.

    Mr Furious

    July 14, 2005 at 11:55 am

    Wow, just when I was disapponted no one else was clicking into this thread, John goes ahead and gives me a mainbar link! Hoo-ha, I better get over to place and make sure there’s something there!

  4. 4.

    Jeff

    July 14, 2005 at 12:33 pm

    That wasn’t a very smart move by Schundler considering that he’s 6’4″ and Howard Dean is shorter than Gary Coleman.

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