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Ino

(3,366 posts)
Fri Feb 12, 2016, 09:45 PM Feb 2016

Sanders-Rappaport ear comparison

I took this photo (Rappaport at top, Sanders at bottom)...

increased resolution & sharpening, cropped, added recent Sanders photo (flopped to face same direction)

Top photo of Rappaport clearly has a different ear than the bottom two photos. Also the length of the philtrum (space between nose & upper lip) is clearly different in the top photo.
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Sanders-Rappaport ear comparison (Original Post) Ino Feb 2016 OP
That is not the photo in question bravenak Feb 2016 #1
Can you give it a rest, bravenak? It's really getting tiresome. (eom) mak3cats Feb 2016 #6
I was stating a fact bravenak Feb 2016 #7
True, but you seem VERY determined to keep this unsavory tale going... mak3cats Feb 2016 #10
You are here TOO bravenak Feb 2016 #12
Whatever, my friend. (eom) mak3cats Feb 2016 #15
Perhaps you should direct that to Ino? That's the person keeping the tale going. George II Feb 2016 #38
This message was self-deleted by its author George II Feb 2016 #37
Are you gonna stop? Please answer my question, you know which. nt thereismore Feb 2016 #8
Yes because Im leaving in eight minutes bravenak Feb 2016 #11
Good luck!! boston bean Feb 2016 #30
Thank you!! bravenak Feb 2016 #31
See you soon. Hurry back! boston bean Feb 2016 #33
Not that this was needed, but it is pretty definitive. BillZBubb Feb 2016 #2
Here is the photo you want. Luminous Animal Feb 2016 #3
That may be Rappapports ear! boston bean Feb 2016 #24
This is clearly not Rappaport. The close-ups are helpful in then relating to the indoor pic. JudyM Feb 2016 #28
I'm not Rappaport. hay rick Feb 2016 #41
LOL! OrwellwasRight Feb 2016 #42
Lol! JudyM Feb 2016 #47
Very interesting - good observation. n/t Merryland Feb 2016 #4
You win!!!!! Skid Rogue Feb 2016 #5
It's only silly when the shit gets exposed, eh. pangaia Feb 2016 #26
For some people maybe... Skid Rogue Feb 2016 #39
The bottom photo has never been disputed to be sanders jberryhill Feb 2016 #9
And his ear. He stole his ear. jillan Feb 2016 #14
And shoes :) n/t TubbersUK Feb 2016 #16
No, just the tassles jberryhill Feb 2016 #18
It is not Bernie. Rilgin Feb 2016 #45
The titles of these OP's certainly are funny! boston bean Feb 2016 #13
Ears are like fingerprints pinebox Feb 2016 #17
It's not a new methodology and was made famous in a documentary called "The Imposter" PeaceNikki Feb 2016 #20
Wonderful. Do you think this circumstance merits this? boston bean Feb 2016 #22
No. PeaceNikki Feb 2016 #25
Friends, Romans, and countrymen..... Tanuki Feb 2016 #23
The ear is a good place to compare madokie Feb 2016 #19
Really ? TubbersUK Feb 2016 #29
another little fun fact madokie Feb 2016 #34
The glasses bows are different libtodeath Feb 2016 #21
Good Idea TubbersUK Feb 2016 #27
The hairline is also totally different eom Arazi Feb 2016 #32
Paul / Faul NowSam Feb 2016 #35
Ask the man that took the photo. Aerows Feb 2016 #36
Coming this Summer: Kevin Costner in Oliver Stones "You Gotta Be Fuckin Kidding Me" NightWatcher Feb 2016 #40
ROTF, LMAO! OrwellwasRight Feb 2016 #43
I have finally decided. I will vote for the candidate with the longest philtrum. rug Feb 2016 #44
LOCKING. Ear threads belong in the ENT Group. nt madinmaryland Feb 2016 #46

mak3cats

(1,573 posts)
10. True, but you seem VERY determined to keep this unsavory tale going...
Fri Feb 12, 2016, 09:53 PM
Feb 2016

...and that's what's tiresome. JMHO.

Response to mak3cats (Reply #6)

 

bravenak

(34,648 posts)
11. Yes because Im leaving in eight minutes
Fri Feb 12, 2016, 09:53 PM
Feb 2016

Be gone an hour so you will get a short break. I have a test

JudyM

(29,251 posts)
28. This is clearly not Rappaport. The close-ups are helpful in then relating to the indoor pic.
Fri Feb 12, 2016, 10:07 PM
Feb 2016

Rappaport's ear is situated much higher in relation to the nose than Bernie's --- closer to the eye level while Bernie's centers around mid-nose height. I can't believe I am writing this, but I did study some forensic anthropology. Also, Bernie's jawline is much longer and ends at the base of his earlobe, while rappaport's has a more obtuse angle and is shorter, terminating well under and in advance of the earlobe. The shape of rappaport's head is broader and shorter. I could go on... I would bet $ that the pic is not Rappaport. I can't say with such certainty that it's Bernie, but it's not Rappaport.

Skid Rogue

(711 posts)
5. You win!!!!!
Fri Feb 12, 2016, 09:49 PM
Feb 2016

That's a Sanders' ear if ever I saw one.

Um... but this is a super silly conversation. lmao

Skid Rogue

(711 posts)
39. For some people maybe...
Fri Feb 12, 2016, 10:45 PM
Feb 2016

But we all know he was there that day, at that "specific" rally. There's many, many undisputed photos of him within that same crowd, on that particular day... wearing that same damn sweater. lol That's a fact.

I like Bernie. He's an amazing fellow. He's fought hard for a lot of issues I care about.

Nevertheless, I choose Hillary. I really, really want for her to win. It doesn't mean I hate Bernie, or want to disparage his amazing past. Go figure?????

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
9. The bottom photo has never been disputed to be sanders
Fri Feb 12, 2016, 09:52 PM
Feb 2016

The photo of Sanders which Skinner coyly says is in dispute, is posted in the first reply.

The photo in dispute is the one showing the guy who stole Sander's sweater, shirt and watch.
 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
18. No, just the tassles
Fri Feb 12, 2016, 09:59 PM
Feb 2016

That's the giveaway - the shoes are different, which can only mean that Rappaport was a tassle thief.

boston bean

(36,221 posts)
13. The titles of these OP's certainly are funny!
Fri Feb 12, 2016, 09:55 PM
Feb 2016


Ear analysis. No two ears alike. You may have invented a new forensic test!

madokie

(51,076 posts)
19. The ear is a good place to compare
Fri Feb 12, 2016, 09:59 PM
Feb 2016

and to me the young bernie and the old bernie ear is the same, albeit as one ages the ear continues to grow. In fact as one ages the ear and nose continue to grow.

madokie

(51,076 posts)
34. another little fun fact
Fri Feb 12, 2016, 10:17 PM
Feb 2016

as you age all your scars migrate towards your belly button. Mind you most never make it that far but some do. I had a scar on my hip from a burn when I was a kid and as I aged I watched it slowly work its way to the belly button and now at 67 its totally gone. I have a scar on my leg from where I went through a fence on a cushman motor scooter and it was two inches above my knee at the time, now its half the way up my thigh. I may have grown an inch in height since I got the scar

TubbersUK

(1,439 posts)
27. Good Idea
Fri Feb 12, 2016, 10:07 PM
Feb 2016

Match Bernie's ear to one of the 6 photos provided by the photographer.

Then link the remaining 5 photos (including the disputed one) to the ear photo by matching the clothing.

It's him.



 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
36. Ask the man that took the photo.
Fri Feb 12, 2016, 10:27 PM
Feb 2016

His name is Daniel Lyons.

He says he took those photos of Bernie. I have no idea how this bruhaha got stirred up, but if this is the best the Clinton campaign has after the shellacking she got in New Hampshire, she is running a piss poor campaign.

Something needs to change in the management of her voter outreach if "I think it was somebody else that a *living* photographer took a picture of instead of Bernie Sanders amidst the dozens of photos already taken of Bernie in the middle of the civil rights debates, marches and sit-ins."

She needs to have a come to Jesus moment with her staff if that is what they consider a "Gotcha" moment.

Hey, let's say that a picture of Bernie Sanders, made by a guy that is still alive, isn't really Bernie Sanders! Yeah, the other people in the picture are alive, too, and can vouch for it, but wouldn't it be funny to see how much shit got stirred up?"

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
40. Coming this Summer: Kevin Costner in Oliver Stones "You Gotta Be Fuckin Kidding Me"
Fri Feb 12, 2016, 11:18 PM
Feb 2016

His lobes go back and to the left
Back and to the left.

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