3/10/08

Clinton sublimnal attack machine unveiled....shading Obama darker on their attack ads!

Some of you have told me recently that you have reached or in some cases gone over the breaking point with the Democratic Party if Clinton eventually gets the nomination. Last week I reached the point to where I felt compelled to contact Colorado's superdelegates, not as an Obama supporter, but Democratic Party Official. Now this afternoon I might be at the breaking point if Clinton gets the nomination, it is a cumulative thing, on top of how some seemingly good local colleagues behaved prior to, during and after the caucus and county convention to, how Clinton has acted campaigning to now, how her campaign has "colored" their attack ads shading Obama darker than he really is. This is closet racism, or better understood as psychological warfare, where it is well established that whites are subconsciously fearful of darker colored skin. I am saying it here, if Clinton gets the nomination you can kiss me and the Democratic Party good bye.

Here is story: Recall the TIME Magazine cover of OJ Simpson that was colored darker than he actually was, when TIME said it was journalistic photographic license. Well now we have political attack license right from the amoral Clinton Family.

By FoxNews.com

A controversial new Hillary Clinton attack ad is causing an Internet stir among critics who claim it deliberately darkens Barack Obama’s skin color. A posting on Daily Kos shows side-by-side screen grabs of Barack Obama taken during a debate with Clinton in Cleveland last week. The screen grab used in the Clinton ad shows a clearly darker-skinned Obama, prompting some to wonder if it was done to highlight his race. Here is the Clinton ad


Despite the strong similarities between the ad on the DailyKos site and the original ad on Clinton’s Web site, Clinton spokesman Jay Carson said he spoke with the campaign’s chief ad maker, Mandy Grunwald, who said emphatically the ad on DailyKos “was not their ad.”

However, he said that Obama’s image was darkened, as part of a “saturation-desaturation” process typical in commercial production and sent in an example of a Clinton ad featuring the candidate and the original footage of Clinton delivering the campaign speech used in the ad. He said both candidates have done it in their ads, and that there was no ulterior motive behind doing so in the campaign’s most recent ad.

One posting on the DailyKos site, though, charged that while darkening footage may be considered standard practice for political ads trying to “cast the target as sinister,” it is “not an acceptable excuse.”

“Even if you accept that as normal practice, it’s still a dirty one, and it takes on a more charged meaning when you’re using it to attack someone in your own party who’s already fighting against a lot of racism in the false Muslim smears,” the posting said. “This is, at best, the worst of politics as usual.”

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