Letters to the Editor
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Are you serious?
Is this really the type of thing that War Room is going to post about? Come on.
P.S.
Tim, come back!!!!
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Afraid of the Dark?
Maybe that's the Clinton campaign theme? I don't know. Seems like people are getting kinda wiggy about these things, now! Why not just have him with glowing red eyes or something? Then again, maybe the Obama people could speed up Clinton's voice a bit in sound bites, so she'd sound 20% shriller, and maybe that'd pay off at the polls. That'd probably work with McCain, too, because his voice is pitched kind of high, anyway. Just goose him a little and he'll sound like he's been huffing helium, my friends.
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Keep it Up!
Only people who really want Obama to lose would write this crap! As I've said before, look at photos of Obama all over the internet and you'll see lots of differences in his colour as it is with darker-hued people. It's the lighting, stupid!!For the Obamatons to put another race-baiting issue out there as they did in South Carolina will only spell doom for the Obama campaign. So go right ahead. Keep it up!
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This is dangerous...
From the FactCheck.org website:
Still, the Clinton ad makers may have darkened the Obama images intentionally, to some degree. When it comes to video editing, the possibilities are overwhelming. But that doesn't necessarily mean their motives were racist. We note that the entire ad is cast in dark tones and even Hillary Clinton herself appears in shadows, as though she were working late into the night.
Anyone that has done any video editing and worked with any photos on a computer knows that you sacrifice something for the ability to handle them on a computer.
Pros call it an 'artifact'. Something left in, or taken out, by the process. Are we going to get all worked up over an 'artifact', a result of the processing?
I guess I have to wonder why the Clinton camp would flirt with this dynamite (assuming that they did cook the video slightly). It could be shoddy editing, cheap software or deliberate. I guess I'm willing to give the benefit of a doubt, but she's playing with a thermonuclear device that could destroy the chances for any democrat to win this election...
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McCain wins again
All I get from this is either:
A) Clinton's staff is race baiting to win
or
B) Obama's supporters are wild with conspiracies.
Neither of these are good, and it doesn't even matter if BOTH are false because just getting it into the media smears both candidates.
This is just another pathetic example of how the race for the democratic nomination is destroying both candidates. It makes me sad.
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It Took 4 Posts And A Couple Minutes
For some wimp to say she's destroying the party.
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damn you people are dumb
For people too dumb to think for themselves... in video, it is difficult to change a single image (e.g. Obama's face) because there are so many frames. But the simple solution is to simply darken EVERY frame (easy to do) and you get the result you want.
Everyone looks darker, but Obama, with his African-American lineage will look much darker than a light skinned caucasian. So you get the desired result. You make Obama look MORE African-American (to scare the bigots).
Is FactCheck so stupid they can't figure that out?
And is there anyone who - at the point - doubts that Hillary would do ANYTHING to win?
(she wants the delegates from Michigan when she was the only candidate on the ballot- and at the time said it did not matter that she was on the ballot since the ballots would not count).
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If You Stop The Video By Frame
There are subliminal shots of fried chicken and watermelon.
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ugh
This wasn't interesting or relevant when it was last week’s news. What’s happened to the insight and occasional wit of the War Room of old?
Boot Koppelman.
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ugh
This is such a huge non-issue being passed around by Obama supporters who will take any slight against His Hopeness as a sign of racism. You know what? Do you have any idea how many images of Hillary are circulating that intentionally make her seem older, scarier, more witch-like? Do a google image search of Hillary sometime. Nearly half the images you'll find are altered, photoshopped, or caricatured. No one is accusing the people who circulate those images of sexism or ageism. No one is saying that our tolerance of such images circulating is evidence of our sexism as a society.
But the Clinton campaign runs an ad in which all of the images are somewhat dark, making Obama appear (GASP) black (because no one knew that before), and Obama supporters use it as irrefutable "proof" of Clinton's racism and dirty tactics.
I am simply disgusted at Obama's supporters. Their candidate may or may not be about hope and playing fair and changing the game, but they've proven that they are nothing more than zealots and hacks.
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Please. Make it stop.
I have said it about the grain-of-truth accusations of sexism and racism before, and I will say it again. EVEN IF there is subtle racism or sexism being used against a candidate, it deserves no more than a collective eye-roll. In almost all of these situations ("shuck and jive," and "when she's feeling ... ... ... down" come to mind), there is no way to prove that someone was trying to use subliminal biases to advantage. I do not think either campaign should be directly making claims of or fighting battles against systemic, unconscious biases. Instead, the candidates should be themselves and SHOW US that they do not fit anyone's stereotype of what Black or Female "means." I hope Obama will not dignify this silliness with a response, and, based on his history thus far in the campaign, I don't expect him to do so.
BTW, I think it is good that Alex has addressed this, because I've seen people talking about it in the comments, and PART of his job is to discuss what people are talking about, even (perhaps especially) if people are being idiots.
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I agree with others
We're seeing these irrelevant posts all too often these days.
Emotionally-charged garbage.
No thanks.
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Really?
Obama call himself a black man to win the black votes and play the race card ..... when he is in fact half black and white. He ignored his mother's hertitage to win in politics.
So if anyone make him blacker, he should win more black votes and be what he call himself.
Where are all the white motehrs with half black sons? Why arent them screaming out loud?
I expect better journalism .. i mean gossip from Salon.