Pic Of The Moment: Oops! Tom Corbett Campaign Gets Caught Faking A Black Friend

[EarlG]

Smiling black woman next to Corbett on his website was Photoshopped

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[berni_mccoy]

1. WTF. Because Photoshop Gets the Racism Out!

[Hoppy]

2. Probably the only black person he knows

[LynneSin]

8. It wasn't even someone he knew - it was a photo someone found on Shutterstock website

Not like there's a website where GOP candidates can go searching for minority friends. That would be a pretty sad website.

[1StrongBlackMan]

13. Hmmm ...

[immoderate]

26. Nature -- meet vacuum.

--imm

[1StrongBlackMan]

27. NegroesForTheCrowd-R-Us.com ...

But wait! Subscribe today and gain access to NegroBestestFriend.com ... all for the low, low price of ...

[immoderate]

30. One of my friends once told me I could pass for Puerto Rican...

Why not a subsidiary?

--imm

[1StrongBlackMan]

31. Mannn ...

that was on page 47 of my Business Plan, under Market Expansion. Don't make me do a hostile takeover!

Wait ... AngryNegroMarketStrategies.org!

[Hoppy]

32. Let me be your agent. We can make some money off that.

[jeff47]

36. Those domain names are available..... (nt)

[1StrongBlackMan]

37. I'm gonna be rich! Rich, I tells ya! eom.

[Maynar]

53. Oh my

I about soiled my pantaloons with that laughter.

[freshwest]

58. NegroBestestFriend! The newest must have fashion accessory!

[rhett o rick]

59. They figured if they used the reverse of her photo showing her looking the other way

it'd be enough to fool the base.

[LynneSin]

61. It's her wattle

And I remember that word because I use to watch 'Ally McBeal' and one of the male lawyers had a thing for women with wattle, the extra flesh on the neck. (it was weird).

She had a heart shaped one - actually kinda cute.

So her heart was just reversed the opposite way.

[1StrongBlackMan]

62. Hell ...

They were trying to fool us.

They do have to try and fool their fool; first, their base would be like, "There was a Black woman in the picture?"

[rhett o rick]

63. You have a good point. If they were smart and aiming at their base they would have put

an arrow with "Black Woman" in large letters. I don't think they are that smart.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

3. repukes.

[Turborama]

4. That is some seriously excellent detective work there!

I only have one question. How?

[Auggie]

10. First clue: The lighting doesn't match

[MADem]

11. Tools like Tin Eye and Google Image Search.

I'll bet they've got interns on both sides going over every pic from every contest that is close.

[ffr]

5. Republis are creepy.

They don't associate with people of non-white skin and have to resort to faking it, to look like they do.

Come on swing voters and Democrats!!! 2.5 weeks to wiping them out of office!

GOTV 2014

[Mnemosyne]

7. The far right of the complete photo has an AA man. It shows the side of his head. Wonder if

he's photo-shopped in also.

[catbyte]

9. LOLZ. Didn't baggers photoshop another African American woman

in a series of ads not too long ago? I Seem to remember seeing a picture of a young African American woman on DU, but I guess I'm not searching the correct term because nothing is coming up. That seems to be the only way they can show any sort of minority. It really is pathetic.



At least they changed the color of her shirt & flipped the image, LOL.

[JPZenger]

12. Let's have a contest - try to find a photo of Corbett with a real A-A friend

Let's have a contest - see if anyone can find a photo of Corbett actually talking to a real African-American. Corbett normally avoids crowds. He has cancelled appearances in Philadelphia when he found out there would be protests outside.

When George W. Bush was at his low-point, he only appeared inside US military bases. Corbett only appears inside Chamber of Commerce dinners that are not publicized to the general public and that have expensive tickets. He even insisted that the first of three debates had to be in front of 2,000 people attending a dinner of businesspersons. The frackers bought many of the tickets and stacked the audience even further.

[Neoma]

14. Oh, just photoshopped in. I thought it meant he went black-faced to fake is own fake black friend.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

15. Just checked,....

....yup.

The website is down:

http://www.rent-a-negro.com/

[Lochloosa]

19. ......

:r ofl:

[Spitfire of ATJ]

20. Still archived too...

https://web.archive.org/web/20050330054041/http://www.rent-a-negro.com/

The guy's a genius.

[Ms. Toad]

50. It's not a guy, it's a woman. n/t

[Spitfire of ATJ]

51. Explains the pricing.....

https://web.archive.org/web/20050327060159/http://www.rent-a-negro.com/negropricing.html

Additional Services

• "Help! I need a Black Opinion!" $75 per call
(30 minute duration) or email (24 hr response time)

• Touch Her Hair: $25 each time

• Touch Her Skin: $35 each touch

• Compare Your Skin Tone to Hers: $50

• Tell her"you look just like..." another black person: $100

• Call her "sister" "sista" "girlfriend" or "girl": $150 each time

• Dance Lessons for the Rhythm-Challenged: $250 hour

• Challenging Racist Family Members: add $500 per person

• Racist Guests at Event: add $500 per event (per racist)

• "Will You Tell Them I'm Not a Racist?": $1500 per vouch

• Certificate of Association: $100
A 8x10" certificate stating your affiliation with a black person.

[7962]

45. Its back up at 8PM eastern!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

46. Just the notice giving away the joke. Check the other link I posted of the archived version.

[SoapBox]

16. And PukeBaggers would be so proud of him...

Because he wasn't really next to one of "them".

I hate Pukes.

[yuiyoshida]

17. Why is the smartest thing the Republicans do is

stuff like this.. Photoshop??? Seriously...and of course they get caught. duh.

[JPZenger]

18. FYI- Corbett staff says everyone was photo-shopped in the image

[Spitfire of ATJ]

21. So how do we know there's actually a guy named Corbett???

For all we know it's like that Al Pacino movie "S1m0ne".

[aggiesal]

22. Oh great! Now we have to look at this mug all weekend. n/t

[Tommymac]

47. Gack..barf..uck One more reason for us Pennsylvanians to kick his butt out. eom

[SummerSnow]

23. all he had to do is darken his skin with Romney Tan in aerosol

[Hubert Flottz]

24. I'll bet you that republicans must hire "contractors" to

cry at their funerals.

[SummerSnow]

39. Tears-R-Us

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

25. A tip off is the fact the black lady is smiling at him as if he'd told an amusing story or joke

Everyone knows Republicans have no sense of humor.

[Hoppy]

33. Yeah, but she might have just been laughing at his sorry ass.

[Bartlet]

43. She's looking at him and thinking

"You are such a sorry ass cracker, I'm gonna so enjoy watching your campaign go down in flames."

[Dont call me Shirley]

28. A round of high fives to the "detective" who figured this out

[SpankMe]

29. The tone-deafness of Republicans is astounding. n/t

[Stellar]

34. In the movie, 'Dear White People', you got to have at least two black friends...

to be authentic.

[tanyev]

35. No Minority Stock Photo Left Behind!

[WhoIsNumberNone]

38. With all the times they've been busted Photoshopping black people into their campaign photos

you'd think Republicans would at least quit using stock images. Better to have no black people in your campaign photos than Photoshopped stock photos. That's like admitting you don't have any black friends when you could have just claimed they didn't show up that day. Seems like for what they must be paying these high end agencies to paste in stock photos, they could hire some actual black people to pose for pictures (I think I feel an SNL sketch coming on...)

One other thing- Do people really recognize these stock photos this fast, or is it just possible that someone at the agency secretly doesn't like working for Republicans? Hmmm.

[AlbertCat]

40. "If we reverse the image.... no one will notice!"

"Ok....do it."

[jonjensen]

41. couldn't he pay a black sex worker to stand next to him?

A black hooker might have to charge extra for kinkynes that perverted!

[PatrickforO]

42. This is PRICELESS

It says everything that needs to be said about this charlatan.

[KamaAina]

44. "Some of my best fake friends are black."

[HLCOLBERT]

48. to be fair he does know at least one black - his crooked son-in-law

Here's a link to a story about his crooked cop black son-in-law. I believe the couple are at least separated at this point.
[link:http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2013/08/13/trial-ordered-for-former-philly-cop-son-in-law-of-gov-corbett/|

[noiretextatique]

57. black is not a noun

it is an adjective, FYI.

[HLCOLBERT]

65. FYI: it is a noun or an adjective or a verb or an adverb.

Go to any dictionary online or off and look it up.

[brooklynite]

49. UPDATE - EVERYONE in the picture is Photoshopped...

Everyone In What Looks Like A Group Photo On GOP Governor’s Website Is Photoshopped

A black woman smiling in the background of a group picture that appears at the bottom of every page of Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett’s campaign website is actually a stock image, photshopped in.

Everyone else in the graphic was photoshopped in, too.

The Corbett campaign told BuzzFeed News on Thursday evening, “The whole website footer graphic is a work of Photoshop.”

Asked if everyone else in the photoshopped image were stock photos as well the Corbett campaign told BuzzFeed News, “the graphic has both stock photos and actual photos in it..”

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/black-woman-photoshopped-into-group-photo-with-gop-governor#30i7hot

[Kaleva]

54. With Halloween drawing near, they should have used stock photos of scary clowns.

Like this one:

[MontyPow]

52. Some of my best fake friends are black, dammit!

[Major Hogwash]

55. Breaking Fake News: She isn't going to vote for Corbett anyway!

In an interview on early Friday afternoon, the woman whose likeness was used as a "friend" of Tom Corbett's, and who appears in a high profile ad in a picture of her with the Governor on his website, was asked about the controversy by John Willis of the New Pennsylvania Tribune.
The woman's immediate response was, "What you talking about, Willis?"

According to the woman, who asked the Tribune to leave her name out of the public eye to protect her anonymity, said she doesn't even live in Pennsylvania.
Instead, she said she was happy where she was, in Kentucky, and was getting ready to cast her vote for Alison Grimes to be her next Senator next month, as she has been a resident of the state of Kentucky for over 45 years.

"I don't know why they thought someone from Kentucky would endorse someone like Governor Corbett, who lives in Pennsylvania. But, that's what it looks to me like they did" she said.
Scratching her head, she said she wasn't even sure which state Governor Corbett was the governor of when the controversy first came to her attention.

"I didn't know who the hell he was", she laughed.
"But someone told me that he may be the Governor of some state, like Pennsylvania, or maybe some other state. So, I did some research, and I 'Googled' his name. And there he was. It took me all of about 3 minutes to find him on the internet."

{snip}

When asked about how she first found out about her likeness being used by the Corbett campaign, she said she was told by her niece, who called her at home.
She said her niece had been looking at pictures of Governors in the United States for a report she was going to give to her 6th grade class.
She added that at first she was shocked.

"I was shocked," said the woman, "at first."
"But, to be honest, it doesn't surprise me that some white Governor in a state like Pennsylvania had to steal a picture of a black woman to put in his campaign ad."
"He knows better than that!" she added.
"Everyone knows what a huge state Pennsylvania is, but I had never heard of that Governor's name before this last week."

Asked if she was offended by the ad, the woman said that she wasn't offended.
But, she said that she was looking in to filing a "cease and desist" order as soon as possible.
She also admitted that she is contemplating taking further legal action.
Saying, "This shit just ain't right" the woman abruptly ended the interview, and referred reporters to her legal counsel.

{snip}

Later on in the late afternoon, Governor Corbett's campaign chairman, Harry Cox, told the New Tribune that the campaign would have no comment on the ad, or on the woman who appeared in the ad.
Stating that Governor Corbett had lots of black friends, he added that he was surprised that someone would think he didn't.

"Governor Corbett has been to many homes of many black people. And he has no reason to issue any apologies at this time because of it", stated a furious Cox.
Cox grew angrier when he was asked if there were any other friends that Governor Corbett had that were black.
"I'm not going to get into that issue," stated a sputtering Cox.
"It isn't fair to Governor Corbett and it isn't fair to the white people of the state of Pennsylvania who support him!"
"Governor Corbett will produce another picture of another black woman who is friendly with Corbett just as soon as we can find one on the internet."

{snip}

Still later on Friday, in the early evening, Harry Cox, Governor Corbett's chief of staff, issued a statement that said their computer was down, and that if it hadn't have gone on the fritz, they could have produced another picture of the Governor talking to another black woman by this time.
The statement further stated that if, and only if they would have had enough time to find one on the internet that would not recognize themselves when placed in a high profile position in an ad on a website that anyone can access, standing next to the Governor, they believe they could have found one.

{snip}

Late in the evening on Friday, Harry Cox, Governor Corbett's spokesman, said that Governor Corbett was flabbergasted when he found out that his campaign only had the one computer.
Cox said this was simply an oversight, and added that the situation would be corrected by early December.

{snip}

At midnight on Friday night, Governor Corbett's campaign released a very short and very terse public statement stating that Harry Cox is no longer with the Corbett re-election campaign.
The campaign said that they believed that they needed more than one computer during the campaign, so they have decided to drop Cox from their re-election efforts.

Stating that now, after they have dropped their Cox, the Corbett campaign believes they are prepared to have yet another debate with their opponent sometime shortly before Thanksgiving.
Stating that they now believe they can prove that Governor Corbett is prepared to handle the troubling issues that face Pennsylvania in today's troubled climate.
The campaign also stated that Corbett is the right man to have in the Governor's office in Pennsylvania, especially during these troubling times.
The campaign also stated Benghazi, fast and furious, troubling times, Benghazi, Syria, Obama, troubling times, ebola, Obama, ebola, ebola, Obama, troubling times, ebola.

[rationalcalgarian]

56. And even with the photoshop fake

he's still ignoring the black woman and smiling at the old white man.

[polynomial]

60. The “cat” atstrophe of the Republican Party

Applause to the Democratic Underground for publishing this photo shopped article. This is the only place where a true free media that will show the real side of the ugly dishonesty in Republican politics.

Main Stream media sure is not doing their job and you can be sure none of the main line cable channels are going to break this news.

Moreover it is my intuitive feel that this Ebola scare is intentional especially breaking out of Texas from Rick Perry’s political Midnight Cowboy party all intended to scare people to stay away from blacks and the election. Rick Perry is beginning to appear like Ratso.

This photo shop catch is the Cat's Meow - Something splendid or stylish; similar to bee's knees; The best or greatest, wonderful understanding of what the Republicans represent.

This photo shop picture runs deeper than many think. Imagine the legislation a lot of these political persons essentially photo shopped into law.

Using legal semantics, and syntax that the average citizen is cheated out of, designed by the Congressional code that is obsolete where the average citizen does not understand the real meaning . Plus a lot reason rules or laws are published in a redacted way anyway.

Yes, cheated through law, exampled as the monumental Supreme Court decision to say money has first amendment rights like a person. Or the average citizen is like a corporation; All righty then, bail me out and down load a couple million dollars to my online count so I could invoke my corporate privileges.

Seriously a closing thought, while listening to some Chopin music, Political advertisements are inserted especially the Democratic ones appear regularly within these music data streams.

What is unusual is the background music is all that can be heard, the message is shunted not matter how loud I increase the sound. Maybe it’s just me but that is even scarier because then they have the power to single me out.

It makes one wonder if this is a new technology scheme to shunt out the voice but keep the background music. I can understand now why the young are texting more because they sense that very ambiguous feeling too. Perhaps that texting culture is telling everyone a message, times have already changed.

Especially, for the President, and his wife in many advertisements in this data stream. Also Quinn and the Durbin in the Senate race here in Illinois the voice message is shunted out, but the background is played loudly.

That’s scary if Microsoft, google, or at&t have those technical people at such a hate level they could shunt out the audio of the speaker but keep the back ground noise that makes the message worthless.

[LiberalLovinLug]

64. Is this Corbett or Colbert?