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Romanoff Campaign Photoshops Diversity

by: OH!4CryingOutLoud

Wed Apr 14, 2010 at 19:31:10 PM MDT


The Denver Post makes me go "Hahaha"

A photo montage on Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff's website was manipulated to make it appear as though an African-American supporter was standing directly at his side in the shot.

This picture of Andrea Mosby, who attended the event, was inserted into the crowd photo.


The woman, former Denver School Board candidate Andrea Mosby, was at his campaign kickoff at Washington Park last September. But she was not standing directly next to Romanoff when that particular picture was taken.

Mosby said Wednesday she has no problem with what happened, and Romanoff's campaign said it did nothing wrong in putting together a series of photos that appear to be one.

"We're not putting in someone who wasn't at the rally. We do nothing that suggests the rally is bigger than it was," said campaign spokesman Roy Teicher.

"The practice of using Photoshop is absolutely accepted under these circumstances."

He said the issue was a nonstory and blamed Romanoff's Democratic primary rival, U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet.

He blamed Michael Bennet? Hahaha. Maybe it's time for yet another spokesperson.  

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This is the wrong photo
but Coloradopols has the correct one.


I just thought it was funny.
I agree. It's not that big of an issue.  Horrible shop-job by the way.  

[ Parent ]
Absolutely no story here
The montage in question is something that was quite obviously a stylized composite image and not intended to portray a single specific moment in time. Believe me, I worked as a newspaper editor for many years, and I know the ethics of photo editing. This is utterly a non-issue. If this were problematic, I would say so. It's not. There's nothing to this. It's a complete non-story. Next thing you know the Bennet people will be attacking the Beatles for the artwork on the Sergeant Pepper album.

Surely there are more important things to talk about, such as the qualifications and performance records of the candidates.  

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I'm with you, Peter
This is totally a dumb nonissue.  Jeez.

Perhaps they should have made a photo montage of all the people that voted for Romanoff on Super Saturday.


[ Parent ]
HEY LOOK!
Michael Bennet has Photoshopped fake mountains into his Web page banner:

What's the matter, Mr. Bennet, our real Colorado mountains ain't good enough for ya?



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Whenever you see any political ad, ask yourself:

Who really paid for this ad, and why?


Don't rip on fake mountains.



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I wasn't going to point that out
;-)

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Whenever you see any political ad, ask yourself:

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hate to break it to you OH4,
But yeah-  The Bennet campaign is the one that pushed this with the Post.  Ask Bartels - for some reason she decided to give up what credibility she had to start bad shilling for Bennet.  I used to respect her...

Oh but on another point Fong is right -- you have the wrong picture up.  This one show...you know...that the woman was there.

It was a bad photoshop job no doubt.  Probably done under the Sue Casey days of the campaign.  I would think the bennet campaign would want their people out collecting those signatures on petitions instead of staring at Romanoff's webiste...but I guess that's why I'm not a high powered political consultant.


Blaming Bennet for Andrew's dissembling?
Now that almost tops AR's claim to be a civil rights attorney( a claim he made to Elvis Boling at the Piefitters' union hall last fall, even thoug Romanoff has not passed the bar.)

The fact that the only piece on his resume for civil rights domestically  that is postive is a 3 month internsip at the SPLC from oct 1987 to Dec 1987, and the fact that he crowed what wonderful legislation was passed to discrimnate against undocumented workers in 2006 aside.

If Romanoff wins the priamry then he will lose badly without Bennet supporters. I strongly suggest that he stop negative campaigning now.August will be too late.

He really should try talking about issues.  


actually ray
When the bennet campaign was trying to make hay out of this yesterday, Andrew was busy talking about...you know...issues:

http://squarestate.net/diary/2...


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Here's Mr. Split Personality Again
One day he says, "yes, Andrew never claimed to be an attorney and my source was mistaken," and the next day it's "he made a claim to Elvis Boling."

Which is it, Ray? I even called you a gentleman when you corrected yourself.

And who's not talking about the issues.  Here you are, not making your mind up about what he did or didn't say, when you should be outdoors collecting petition signatures.

Time's a-wasting!


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