Liberal Bloggers: Clinton Campaign Darkened Obama’s Skin in New TV Ad

The whole picture not just the face is darker, and who cares!!! this is stupid! people are injecting racism where there is none, one would think it would be the Republicans but its not it the bonehead liberals.

This is low Jack no doubt this is been highlighted by an Obama supporter who wants to us to think this is a clinton tactic!
Give us a break! This is low!

This is CLASSIC Clinton and emblematic of her dirty tricks. Although I should say that Hillary is not a racist “to the best of my knowledge.”

While we are on the subject of liberal bloggers, could someone check ABC news articles, other than jpt, and see if some Obama fan is blocking pro-Hillary posts from being posted? It has been very strange since Sunday, and I noticed that a blogger did get through today to complain. I have had several posts not posted even though I followed all the required guidelines. If it is a technical issue, fine. But, if what I halfway suspected is true, what gives?

Wow! Another lowering of the bar for the Clinton campaign!!! Tsk, Tsk, Tsk.
It is unfortunate that race does play a role in this campaign, as some Latinos clearly state they support Hillary because they won’t vote for a black. And the “darker hue” has been used before, and unfortunately is not too low for the Clinton camp and Mark Penn to stoop.
If Clinton is elected, Mark Penn may be the new Karl Rove!

This is the Daily Kos mafia attempting to create a negative Hillary story. Bury it.

Answer me this, Why does he always look orange in debates. My husband and I have commented on it before. He looks much better brown in the Clinton add than orange in the debate. And this isn’t the first debate he looked orange in, like oompa lumpa orange sometimes.

Jaz, Georgia and all-
Did you even READ the article? LOL. The claim is made by bloggers like the DailyKos and the Obama campaign and his surrogates have made no comments on or off the record about it. Now how exactly is the accusation coming from Obama’s campaign? Stop it with the transparent gotcha moments and relax.
By the way, last I checked time was linear which would make it impossible for Obama to come out with any strategy after the Tx, Ohio primaries in seeing that they are not complete yet!
SMH

I have bee busy throwing puppies all afternoon (have not been able to get one to yelp while in flight) and missed this preposterous claim. Even the most desperate of politicians would not change the hue of a tape. The kos community is beyond all reason. I am with Jaz on this one.

“Hillary Clinton will never be too busy to defend our national security…” But in the previous ad she let “the” phone ring 6 times because she was too busy wondering who should answer “the” phone at 3 AM.

I wouldn’t put anything past Hillary, as for Obama not doing his job while campaigning, take a look at Hillary’s voting record the last couple of years. What is her excuse for not accomplishing anything more substantive than renaming federal buildings.

I have had enough! I DO NOT BELIEVE SHE DARKENED HIS SKIN!! People, people, people. Is this what our country has come to? People are getting evicted, senoir’s are having to make the hard choice of paying their bills or buying their medicine, and single mom’s are working two jobs to stay afloat. Is this really the most important question on the minds of America?

So let’s hear the outright denial from Team Clinton. Should be a simple matter – either they did it or not.

He is black, is he?

The reason this article has some interest is in its suggestion that the Clinton camp continues to play the race card.
Darkening his skin could make a difference to someone who is racist against blacks.
Its hard for me to believe that the professionals who produced the Anti-Obama ad did not color correct the final output. With modern computer software this only takes a few seconds. Color accuracy is an important component of film and video production. The producers don’t ignore it, especially for what they are being paid.
I do find this suspicious. For the Clinton Camp to play the race card would be consistent with precious behaviors on their part. Maybe they figure they’ve got nothing to lose at this point, since African Americans have landslided toward Obama already. Why not try to conjure up some additional votes by tapping into some racism among whites or other ethnic groups?

IF — I repeat, IF — this was done intentionally by the Clinton campaign, this would be the most desperate, despicable, vile, racist, thuggish tactic to which I’ve ever seen a Democrat stoop.
IF this can be proven to be an intentional race-baiting smear, both Clintons should be thrown forcibly out of the Democratic Party.

Ok so I just perused some photos of candidates.
Obama often looks orange, which I’m pretty sure he’s not in real life.
McCain either looks like a corpse or pink like he’s had a little nip.
Clinton often looks greenish.
Its all in the lighting.
Who cares.

Obama’s Latte color is lame to sit and discuss, and whether Hillary or anyone photo shopped his face to look darker, wow,
lets find out if Obama wears Boxers or Briefs talk amongst yourself.

So what, if we all keep following Hillary’s crazy moves she just gets more attention. I am very disappointed with her all her moves so far boarding on the cheap.

Different lightings can make a big difference, and somebody may have just been trying to make him look less orange. It doesn’t seem likely that there was anything diabolical, and I’m an Obama supporter!

Bunch of whiners. Here’s a newsflash for you: Obama is black!
Why is Obama ashamed to be black?

The color depends mostly on the lighting when the picture is taken. And what does it matter? He is bi-racial but calls himself black. Does the shade have anything to do with it? He is what he wants to be. In my opinion, this campaign is all about race anyway.

I personally think this was done on purpose, but I still cannot believe that people eat up political ads, like they were watching an advertisement to make them want to go and get a Big Mac. I mean, come on people!..Go Obama!

“I’m Hillary Clinton and I approved this spin.”
Did anyone here watch Harold Ickes on Charlie Rose last night? He can’t utter a sentence without spinning it for Clinton. This ad is just more of the same.
Ickes was pushing the “we don’t know enough about Obama…things could surface…” – sounded a lot like Clinton’s “as far as I know” comment. All part of the same “he’s not like us” meme.
It’s what they do.

Hillary, Hillary, Hillary. Fold your tent and go home

Despicable, outrageous.
If the media doesn’t cover this prominently and thoroughly, they are complicit in the most disgusting bit of campaign racism I have witnessed since the 1960s.
This disqualifies Hillary as far as I’m concerned. Simply disgusting.

To say she disappoints me is an understatement. She has played to racial and religious bigotry and ignorance, all while using a Republican narrative. If she sleazes her way to the nomination, I will vote my liberal progressive sensibilities and vote for Nader. If that means McCain wins, then so be it. Frankly if my party chooses her as the nominee, we DESERVE to lose!! And sorry, Hillary, you CAN’T win on a Republican narrative. If voters want a Republican they have a fine choice in John McCain. They won’t go for your “Republican Lite” nonsense. You knee-cap Obama at our party’s expense.

“now”

Whenever Obama’s campaign staff doesn’t like the way things are going, they play the race card. It is becomming tedious and tiresome. One would wonder if they are embarrassed that he is black……..
I’m voting for Hillary.

Really Terre? Who on Obama’s campaign staff has complained? These are liberal bloggers raising the questions. ABCnews chose to address it, on a blog. What part of “The Obama campaign did not have any comment — on or off the record.” did you not understand in Jake Tapper’s blog?

Hillary is winning Ohio with a higher percent than McCain, yet the obama loving media acts like it’s too close to call.

Racist? That is so weird. He’s black. Making him light black, or medium black or dark black – why would that be racist? If Clinton’s chest looks bigger in one of his commercials is he being sexist??? Ridiculous.

For anyone, for a second, believes this wasn’t deliberate on the part of Clinton only has to read what her response was… “The ad the dailykos used, wasn’t our ad.”
That is a blatant lie, and has been disproved by 3rd parties. Why lie, if not guilty.
This is despicable. I wouldn’t have been so upset if her people said “Hey, the whole ad was dark, we hired some crummy video editors, we’re sorry, blah blah blah.” But the fact that they are trying to lie about it is incredible.
This should seriously be front-page news.

Lets see.Hillary had nothing to do with the Insight magazine rumor that still persists to this day,or the most recent release of Obama wearing a scarf/turban.Now we have the tv. ad that plays to some with already racist leanings.Hmm.Funny how all of this points back to Hillary,and she continues to deny.How anyone can vote for this poor excuse for a human being is beyond me.Obama’s skin is more light than dark.This is obvious tampering.She and whoever is running her campaign should be ashamed.How anyone can be this low and think it is fun or fair to win in politics using these tactics is beyond what I can say on a public forum.
Obama shows class in his campaign.Hillary could learn a lot from him.

Vince – are you daft? READ THE ARTICLE. Where does it say that Obama or his campaign have brought up this issue? It doesn’t. It says “liberal bloggers” have noticed it.
For crying out loud, man. Pay attention.

I’ve seen many ads over the years candidates be painted black and white (or other twists) by their opponents. When they create ads to demolish someone, they might work on some colour things to have better effects. There’s nothing wrong with it. Besides, as Clinton campaign has said, colors can be quite different depending on many factors. Don’t make big deal out of it, please!

I’d like to pont out that the Obama campaign made no response. Meaning they don’t believe this. Also this is a non-issue and a bogus one at that.
Obama ’08

Having manipulated photos and video professionally, I can tell you that the video was altered. The levels and the contrast look as if they have been manipulated. It’s very blatant.
I think that the decision to progress with this ad shows a lack of sensitivity and leadership that is necessary in today’s political climate, both at home and abroad.
If Hillary wins the nomination, the only sound decision would be to jump to McCain. He has taken the high-road.

People. Video editing happens all the time. Have you ever seen FOX News? Then you just said yes to saying you’ve watched edited videos.

Who Cares. Obama is history.

stop with racial stuff against the clintons — Just Stop !!obama should just grow up already !! — he cannot handle playing w/ the big boys — he has all the media — so what more does he want –all the victories —
– his camp is the one w/ all the racial stuff — give us a break –

Karl Rove is laughing his arse off.RNC had to repremand the Ten. branch for a mailer featuring the Obama photo in Kenyan garb,along with not so nice comments.All they have to do is start a rumor release a picture and it the Obamabots blaming the Clintons.Unlike Obama and the Nafta mess that turns out to be true.

Obama’s campaign is in a hurry to wrap the campaign because they khow what Rezko’s trial might bring in the next few weeks. Obama’s name is associated with Rezko’s name on more than the fundraising and the real estate deal, and he knows this will come to light as the trial begins. We will see that he is no different than any other politician.

I have to say that the assertion by Hillary that she has more experience makes it look as if experience is everything. It is not. One can also have bad experience and in this case, all the experience Hillary talks about is connected with her husband’s presidency and Washington, which needs to be overhauled. All the experience she can boast is the wrong experince and she cannot bring about the real change that everybody is looking for. She must please the lobbysts, the drug companies, and the wealthiest Americans who are her main supporters as opposed to Barack, who is being supported financially by the poor, rich, young old, black, yellow, brown, white, chocolate etc. It is not as if Barack does not have experience either. Just read about his work as a law instructor, in a University in Chicago, his experience as a state senator with quite some accomplishments, his experience as a senator, and his wife’s experince as an administrator of a large hospital and I understand she worked as a vice president at the hospital. Besides, all the experince in Washington put together did not stop the congress from giving a blank check for the most unfortunate war in the history of the world in which thousands of young Americans have been executed and the Iraqi people have their heads cut off and buried in mass graves for no good reason.
I think that temperament is very important and being able to keep the cool even when things are going seriously badly. Hillary is not only very emotional but she was extremely condesending in the way she adressed Barack like a mother scolding her little boy “shame on you Obama” etc. Surprisingly, the media did not comment on this behaviour. This behaviour undescores who Hillary really is and she does not show respect for Barack. On the other hand, we see Barack maintaining his cool under pressure and even with kitchen sinks being thrown at him, remaining dignified. He does not fluctuate minute by minute from being extremely charming to extremely mad.
It seems that Barack is highly well organized in his campaign compared to Hillary, despite her claim for experience. That is one reason Barack is doing so well. He is also not polalizing but rather uniting, which we desperately need in the country. He is inspiring which means that people are taking interest in politics for the first time because of Barack. Whatever happens, I hope Hillary will not continue with her attacks of Barack, which we are all tired off. If Barack did what she is doing we would have been chasticed. I think it is good to lose or win with one’s dignity intact

Obama campaign always playing a race card. Always wanting hillary to dropped out the campiagn, what a dectator? people in texas, ohio, and rhode island are smart, theyve voted for issue,future of our country,

This charge of making Obama look more black is crazy. This sounds like the people who believe in 9/11 conspiracy theories. Also, why would Osama and his supporters be angry if he looks black. At first he was the no race candidate, and then he turned himself into the black candidate. Osama’s supporters are going to incredible lengths to find things against Hillary who is the best possible person to be president.

I don’t know, I think it looks like they just have a clip with different lighting…they might have intentionally picked the darkest clip they could find, but i doubt they photoshopped it…if they did, they really are bad people

The charge was made on DailyKos, whose shrill netroot fundamentalists have already broken en masse for Obama.
Therefore, whatever appears on that site is tainted, to be read with suspicion. Same goes for talkingpointsmemo.com and all those other talksites.
And don’t look at me; the sites brought it on to themselves. The editorial leaderships chose their candidates and so they should now not be surprised if/when they’re accused of partisanship.
It is a journalist’s JOB to be independent and objective. To inform, not to convince. Unfortunately, too many of those websites have started casting themselves as a news media of sorts…

I do a lot in photography, and on monitors, a lot is influenced by one’s settings (monitor type, age of the monitor, and the photo software’s workspace).
Add that basic lighting makes a big difference. In the pics you present the one on the left is lobster orange on my screen. Maybe some would prefer that!
My experience is that people look darker or lighter depending on the light and also, in photos, on the exposure.
But there’ll alwyas be people looking for these things, and whatever makes one happier …
It’s not as if we don’t see Obama everyday for ourselves and don’t know what he looks like. I don’t think anyone would think twice were it not for people bringing this up after looking for things.

Actually this looks like a pathetic unprofessional job. It seems as though they captured the images from a digital feed with the extended width (this takes a 3×5 and makes it a 4×16)function on. You’ve seen it if you have a hi-def tv. The image was not color corrected and is clearly out of phase. BTW the Baltimore Sun regularly runs unflattering pictures of Sen. Clinton and the Baltimore affiliate of NBC showed her campaigning in the MD, for the whole 20 second clip her back was to the camera. We know that she had faced the front of the hall at least once in the hour she spoke, but this is what the producer had decided to air. Don’t let the press cheat you from the real issues or manipulate you. This is a real non-issue, and says more about the press and bad video producers than either candidate. Just stay aware.

OK, the photo is a frivolous issue for many, let’s stick to a real one about Hilary’s conduct, like her activities as lawyer and board member for Walmart, which has fought unionization and fair wages for workers… NOT A PEEP about how Hilary sees that, nor where she stands on that issue. Not a word anywhere about that. No hard hitting questions from the press. HMMMMM!!! what could that all mean?

Any time HRC overcomes the media jurganots, they always find ways to discredit her.
Both Bill and Hillary are not racist and have done more for African Americans than any media group has ever been.
Get it?
Stop the whinning and accept defeat.

Not that it is NOT the Obama Campaign, not any representative of the Obama Campaign that brought this up. This is what the Clintons do. Whine about how they are getting unfairly picked on by the press, not the press has to find negative stories about Obama in order to look balanced. There is a reason why there are so many negative stories about HRC, she, and her husband do a lot of questionable things. They take money from the Saudis to fund her campaign, they refuse to release documentation that they have had since January to show her experience. They use innuendo and shaded answers to destroy reputations and most of all they count on the American people to be too stupid to see the manipulations. There is no, NO difference between her an McCain. She will not get us out of Iraq, look at her answers, she has said she would study it, and then go with the reccomendations of the Generals that will still be in place fromt he Bush adminsitration. She will for a committee on Social Security, just like Bush, forcing people to buy health insurance for themselves will only benefit the insurance companies and does nothign for health care. She has no education plan whatsoever, and her plan for the Economy does not involve gettign people back to work.

I think the whole add is dark, this is just trying to get Hillary of her campaign , so the whining has really started now that she has took away his MO. Have you noticed every time she wins people start yelling racism. This is why he should just drop out now, it is tearing the party and the country apart.

Interesting that ABC would have this story. It was ABC that had the Rush Limbaugh story about Curious George using a Curious George picture next to a photo of Obama with his lips puckered. Something I thought made an ugly situation even more disgraceful. Why are you all choosing to do that? Are you all trying to fan the flames of racism? Is the media looking for an all out rebellion from the people against it? I think the media does not reflect the people at all. They seem to join in thinking with the small minority of racists.

I don’t have cable, so I watch major press conferences and State of the Union addresses on over-the-air broadcasts. Sometimes during a broadcast, the signal will weaken, and I’ll flip to the next channel. I’ve never seen such a broadcast where the color was the same on each of the networks, despite being contemporaneous pictures of the very same event. While I don’t trust the Clintons any further than I could throw them, I think this is much ado about nothing.

Just one thing i observed about race in this election.If i’ as a white man , voted for a white, because he was white, and running against a black canidate. Would i be a racist? Wellll what are all the blacks for voting , overwellmingly for obama? Just an observation. Frankly i wish Ms rice would have run. She would be bullet proof and would have crushed these 3 bozo’s handidly.Of course we,d be seeing the aunt jemimah pictures again , from the dems(their so non racist)

“Nothing in advertising is accidental. It is over-thought and then subjected to second thoughts and second guessing then over-thought and re-looked at again. I’ve been doing this ten years. It is my professional opinion that the film was made darker, and it has obviously been stretched. I will not comment on their reasons, as I can’t offer an informed case for that.”

Wow! Corporate Media (ABC) sure is giving the Corporate Democrat (Hillary) some exposure…
Two ads that favor Hillary, Yet Americans are too Blinded by the Light!

Yupdatsme:
Who is playing the victim? ABC picked this story up from bloggers.
Corporate *owned* Media wins if Hillary or McCain become president. Whose side do ya think they are on, Obama’s?

Yupdatsme:
My point…ABC picked this “story” up on their own, I don’t think there was any complaints.
After-all it “IS” Corporate Media with an agenda!!

well tweedle dumm is calling tweedle dee racist my oh my is that a qualifing action for president?, This is a childish distraction for the sheeple to argue over while the real problems that this nation is facing will need more leadership than that ship of fools will ever provide There is no discussions on eceonimic wreck that we are in no words of wisdom on our Oil problems no comments about world events that will drag us into a major war What we all worry about is a dark casting on a photo I am worried about what this mess will do to our countrys survival not what cast a photo is.

The accusation is a complete lie, leveled by the technically incompetent.

If we think this nation has not recial problems then why 95% of blacks vote for Obama?

Hillary is the same crook she was when she stole in the Whitewate incident. It seems everyone has forgotten that she wouldn’t produce needed papers then, also. When they mysteriously appear, her explanation always changes.

When is this going to end? I’m blaming RACIST Ohio for forcing us to deal with even MORE Hillary in the coming months. Ohio can fall off the face of the earth unless they vote Republican. I was hoping that they would be the sensible people to put an end to this.
Why would Hillary do this? Who cares what Obama did “wrong”. What is Hillary Clinton trying to insinuate?
She has enough work to do in explaining her health care agenda. She’s wasting our time instead.

“one would think it would be the Republicans but its not it the bonehead liberals”
If you’ve ever doubted evil politicians are evil politicians, no matter which side of the aisle they live on, you need not doubt any longer.

The average American is ill informed! This individual is an ignorant at best, Jake Tapper does not know. We YES WE the product of mixture, for I am Chinese, Jewish Portuguese and African DO NOT think in terms of race.
Race should never be categorized! America is an infant, a society and culture that believes that all and in all there is a practical justification or an inner purpose that is driven by a practical justification for it’s existence.
Perhaps, I would better be understood if I spoke in my first language instead of my 7th, get educated because you don’t have one, at best you have receive training and sets of instruction that you are to exercise in achieving that wish you live for, the instantaneous gratification.
Racism begins to exist when you attempt to categorize things by race, regardless of the outcome… when you walk that path you are a racist! your dumb experts, perhaps can chew on that for the next century. Mind you I only got my Masters in Biosystems engineering when I was 20.
You have lived when you have been born, you are a racist when you think, categorize in terms of race. Clear? As this been understood? or should I continue to elaborate on the alphabet. Just in case you missed, which you probable did “somethings begin to exist when they are conceived, enter the mind or the mind follows a path!”