Poloticians are bad at photoshop.

[Tev]

This wasn't news enough for the News forum, nor funny enough for Funny Pictures.

It's getting to the point where it's almost not funny anymore and instead is just sad. If I'm going to be lied to, the least the the person lying to me can do is spring for a better production value...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v110/Loneglade/shop1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v110/Loneglade/shop2.jpg

[Bells]

Just to be on the clear, are you sure it`s a bad cloning issue and not a really really dumb "i just poorly layed a photo on top of another photo to create a panorama and didn`t notice they were the same"

[Tev]

The "really bad panorama" picture was on the "at best" end of the news takes of this picture. But honestly, even if this was an unintentional mistake, which I'm far to jaded from countless other poor political photoshop disasters of the past to believe, this is still a pretty piss poor job for what should be achieved with national levels of campaign financing.

[shiney]

This was a hack-job at photoshopping to make a crowd look larger in a swing state that Romney absolutely needs for victory. Because "Look at how many people came to my rallyyyyy" = more people will vote for you?

[Tev]

Because "Look at how many people came to my rallyyyyy" = more people will vote for you?From what I've been reading so far this week, the Romney campaign has been trying to sell a fake story of momentum to all of the media outlets in hope of drumming up some real momentum before the election. It's a surprisingly brazen strategy that totally can work if you do it right. Corporations use advertising the same way every day.

[Bum Bill Bee]

Its spelled Politician, Tev. Be careful with your spelling, I almost thought this was going to be about a sport played on horseback when reading the title.

[Tev]

Yeah, normally I check for these things, but the i and the o are like, right next to each other on the keyboard and by the time my brain registered the mistake it was too late.

EDIT: I guess I can say it was an accidental funny at Mittington "Dressage" Romney, husband of a notable horse enthusiast.

[Seil]

Because "Look at how many people came to my rallyyyyy" = more people will vote for you?

This is true, actually. People tend to follow crowds, because it's the popular opinion, and it's being part of a whole, and it's being lauded for having an opinion that everyone else has.

I know ABC isn't the best source, but it's the best I could find on such short notice. (http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/Health/story?id=1495038#.UJAeNoZKzAA)

[Magus]

Look, these campaigns are creating jobs. Job for cross-eyed people with no computer or artistic skills, but jobs all the same!