holy crap!!! does bush have a failing liver? look at the color of his skin

[ElsewheresDaughter]

jaundice as hell

[rooboy]

1. Vegetables don't have livers. n/t

[arcos]

10. hahaha!

[Anakin Skywalker]

2. No. It's the Cowardice.

Or it could just be a healthy, texas tan! LOL I say it's the cowardice showing through.

[Abelman]

5. HA!

Maybe it's because it's very late here, but I thought that was just hilarious.

[Ruffhowse]

3. His wrinkle level has gone way up too. Damn! He looks older than his dad.

Drugs and booze will do that to you.

[Pump Man]

8. I do not know about drugs but I tell about you about booze

Both will take a tow on you. Drugs brain dead. Booze early
aging

[saracat]

4. And wasn't his hair brown when he was selected?

[OutsourceBush]

6. He seems to have that Kerry orange glow the pukes made so

must fun of. Sun tan in a bottle is my guess.

[Evergreen Emerald]

12. they project remember?

I'll bet they were worried about how Bush's skin color would look during the debate--so they deflected the issue onto Kerry before the debate so people would be looking at him instead of Bush.

I honestly wondered what they were talking about when I saw Kerry and thought he looked no different. And I do remember thinking that Bush looked more orange than Kerry did during that second debate. Dang these guys are good at lying.

[slor]

7. It is obvious that...

his Lizard Concealment Device is failing.

[Boomer]

9. This is a joke question, right?

Colors shift according to film stock and processing, not to mention whatever monitor you happened to be using to view the photo.

The wrinkles on the other hand, those are real....

[FlaGranny]

11. Not quite - the other person's hand is a quite

normal color.

[OutsourceBush]

13. I've actually used that rub-on tan stuff before, you can get it at

any drug store. Several different brands available. It looks just like this.

[OutsourceBush]

14. Maybe we should change thread name to BUSH ON ORANGE ALERT!

[sendero]

16. I've tried to explain that here...

... a hundred times (ok, maybe twice :) ) and lots of folks refuse to get it.

Color balance of a normal film photo is basically decided by the processor. They don't always get it right.

Once the photo is in the digital realm (which it has to be to be published anywhere), it is trivial (I can do it in 20 seconds) to change the overall hues.

If you see Bush* in person, you can evaluate his skin tone. Any other method is meaningless.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

17. the other hand is pinkish but bush*s is as yellow as his face.....

color shift...processing...film stock...??? naaah

[Julien Sorel]

21. Almost no photojournalist shoots film any longer.

It's too slow to get it processed, and it just ends up getting digitized to publish, anyway.

My first thought was a gray balance issue, but the colors on the jackets and pants in the background look true, plus there's the problem of the other person who looks normal. Still, I have a hard time believing he is that color and no one has started whispering about it. I just can't figure out what, from a photography standpoint, could cause him to come out looking like that when everything else looks normal.

[Boomer]

24. Not all colors are equal

It's not unusual for some shades or colors to shift more radically than others. So you can indeed have many true colors and then some weird shift for a section of an image that has a different mix. In my experience greens and yellows tend to shift more unpredictably than blues and reds, for instance.

The point is that you can't make any definitive statement about Bush's complexion based on one photo.

[Maiden England]

15. someone with this level of toxemia

well, to put it tactfully, really shouldn't be planning their next four years, I wouldn't plan much longer than the next four months.

Darth's got a dickie ticker, so who's the speaker of the house again?

[Sabriel]

23. Hastert. Ack! Talk about the unholy trinity.... n/t

[catmandu57]

18. If he took his physical

We'de find out if his liver was failing. Maybe that's why he's refusing it.

[indigobusiness]

19. Why, do you reckon, he postponed this physical

until after the election?

[leftofthedial]

20. another yellow "W"

He looks like he is rotting from the inside out

[neebob]

22. I think it's just a deep tan in bad light

He looks pretty healthy to me. I don't understand why nobody ever asks about his tan. How does he get it, working so hard?

[Boomer]

26. High contrast effects

The supposedly normal skin tones in the hand are actually a bit blown out while Bush's image is much more saturated. I'd guess the photo was shot in less than ideal conditions and came out a bit flat, so someone probably bumped up the contrast to give it a more dramatic boost. That probably skewed the balance of skin tones, pushing Bush darker and more yellow than normal.

[TacticalPeek]

25. Yellow-bellied chickenhawk.

The yellow stripe down his back is spreading.

[bloom]

27. It seems pretty plausible

considering his habits...

(although in that photo - it seems like it could just be from a tan).

[neuvocat]

28. Possibly a bad UV-Ray tan

or a painted-on tan like what Drudge was saying about Kerry.

[TrustingDog]

29. old yella. put him down.

[proReality]

30. That expression--a bad case of gas? n/t

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