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Evidence surfaces suggesting Iranian missile Photoshoppers could be on Romney campaign payroll
by Jed Lewison
Well this is hilarious: BuzzFeed just caught the Romney campaign exaggerating the size of one its campaign rallies with an altered image. You can view BuzzFeed's full analysis of the image here, but in short the Romney campaign simply duplicated several sections of the crowd, making the audience seem much bigger than it was. And they did a terrible job of it.
For example, take a look at Romney banner hanging in the raftersif you flip it around, you'll see several letters are duplicated:
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/26/1150776/-Evidence-surfaces-suggesting-Iranian-missile-Photoshoppers-could-be-on-Romney-campaign-payroll
by Jed Lewison
Well this is hilarious: BuzzFeed just caught the Romney campaign exaggerating the size of one its campaign rallies with an altered image. You can view BuzzFeed's full analysis of the image here, but in short the Romney campaign simply duplicated several sections of the crowd, making the audience seem much bigger than it was. And they did a terrible job of it.
For example, take a look at Romney banner hanging in the raftersif you flip it around, you'll see several letters are duplicated:
[font color="black" size="2" face="face"]Zooming in on and flipping the Romney banner illustrates one of the several alterations to the image. In this case, the letters M and N are repeated, so the banner reads "ROMNMNEY"[/font]
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/26/1150776/-Evidence-surfaces-suggesting-Iranian-missile-Photoshoppers-could-be-on-Romney-campaign-payroll
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The "ROMNMNEY" campaign (Original Post)
ProSense
Oct 2012
OP
Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)1. OMG!
ProSense
(116,464 posts)3. Obama campaign ad: ROMNMNESIA
Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)6. DUZY!
reflection
(6,286 posts)10. Can you use that word in Scrbabble?
bluestate10
(10,942 posts)12. God, I love it!!! nt
ProSense
(116,464 posts)14. Thanks. It also
works with ROMNMNEYHOOD.
geckosfeet
(9,644 posts)2. campaign level gaffe #247
nc4bo
(17,651 posts)4. GOP 2012 - Party of Fake. nm
tallahasseedem
(6,716 posts)5. This is just flat-out awesome...
and here I thought they'd learn their lesson after the 2004 Bush soldier Photoshop disaster.
Cha
(297,810 posts)7. What's wrong, Romnmney? Not getting emough crowds..
so you have to photoshop?
ProSense
(116,464 posts)8. Mitt's campaign is unraveling, but
damn.
dmr
(28,349 posts)9. Guess they ran out of people willing to be bussed in.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)11. Hey, hey, that's his rap name.
It gives him more street cred with the kids.
aletier_v
(1,773 posts)15. The rom-nom-nom-y-ney rap
I like that, it's got some potential.
Somebody needs to mix a rap clip of Romney jiving.
That would fucking hilarious.