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.