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rpannier

(24,329 posts)
Mon Jul 27, 2020, 08:52 PM Jul 2020

Republican senator deletes ad that made Jewish opponent's nose bigger

Sen. David Perdue of Georgia deleted a Facebook ad targeting his Jewish election opponent, Jon Ossoff, that appeared to have been altered to make Ossoff’s nose bigger.

The ad called for donations to Perdue, a Republican, by claiming that “Democrats are trying to buy Georgia.” It uses black-and-white photos of Ossoff and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who is also Jewish, that have been Photoshopped to appear as if they were pulled from an old television set with poor reception.

But the Ossoff image, which was adapted from a 2017 Reuters photo of him, was also changed by having his nose lengthened and widened, even as other parts of his face stayed the same size and proportions, three graphic design experts told the Forward.

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The Perdue campaign called the effect an accident and said they were removing the ad from the social network.

https://forward.com/news/national/451581/jon-ossoff-jewish-nose-david-perdue-antisemitic/

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Goodheart

(5,321 posts)
9. The object was to show the voters that Ossoff is Jewish, in case they didn't know, without having to
Mon Jul 27, 2020, 09:46 PM
Jul 2020

speak it.

HOW IN THE FUCK COULD THIS BE AN "ACCIDENT"?

Perdue is despicable.


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