Photoshopped Image of Palin’s Head on Someone Elses Body
MKFreeberg at House of Eratosthenes on Sep 02 2008 at 7:26 pm | Filed under: Dirty Tricks Campaign, Election 2008
Not sure why a photoshopped image of Palin holding a pellet gun is supposed to be a scandal but it’s happening nonetheless
…maybe I should add it to the Things I Don’t Get page. Blogger friend Phil sends along in an off-line, a photo I’m sure most folks have already seen, which he’s way to classy to put up at his site. But hey, we’re bottom-feeders over here.
And the original photo is here. The guy who owns it has asked that the original not be used at another guy’s site, which presumably means he doesn’t want it displayed anywhere else. I’ll respect that weird, bizarre request. But the young lady who owns the body, has been mailing out copies of the ’shopped image to “everyone she knows.”
“Doctor Casino” adds, regarding said modified image that you do in fact see above:
This was just posted on a message board that I frequent by user “am0n.” I had no hand in its creation and am ambivalent at best about the firestorm of Photoshopping the face of Sarah Palin onto things. However, I like this one because it actually kind of sums up the reasons why one might be suspicious of Sarah Palin.
Elizabeth has begun excitedly forwarding this to everyone she knows. She expressed some concern for how convincingly Palin’s 44-year-old head fits onto her own 23-year-old body, but I think this is just to the credit of the Photoshopper in question. [emphasis mine]
Someone clue me in, please.
I might be suspicious of Sarah Palin because…she holds air pellet guns? Or she seems to be born to wear American flag themed swimwear? Or she has a face that looks natural when grafted on to an image of a young lady who looks good in a bathing suit holding an air pellet gun?
Secondarily, I’d really like to hear from Elizabeth about this. Is she in agreement with Doctor C on all the above? Why turn down that other poor guy who wanted to post the original photo on his site, and then begin “excitedly forwarding [the altered image] to everyone she knows”? Does this, perhaps, tie in with the reasons one should be suspicious of Gov. Palin? Are we allowed to pretend Sarah Palin wore a flag bikini and posed with a pellet gun, but we’re not allowed to know as a fact that this Elizabeth person did so? What’s the prob?
Is this perhaps connected with that strategy we were observing this morning…
Repeat ANYTHING or raise false concern over ANYTHING and it is likely to be planted in the conscious/subconscious of many voters….One more doubt (whether tied to reality or not) is another hesitation at the ballot box.
Speaking just for myself, if I didn’t already want to vote for Palin’s ticket, this would make me want to do so. If I thought it was real. Maybe even if I knew it wasn’t. And I don’t think I’m alone on that one.
I’ve noticed this before about some photogenic young women. Whether they’re putting their lovely curves on display, or dressing a bit more modestly, some of them seem to get it in their heads that when they’re tired of the attention they can just give a hand signal or something, and everyone on the seven continents will simultaneously stop looking at the photographs. It’s a little scary. But — back to the subect at hand. How is this supposed to scandalize Gov. Palin in any way? Even if it was genuine? What is it, the swimsuit or the gun? Or both?
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Webloggin Correction On Title – I Thought that a blogger had posted the image of herself. While the person that has been photoshopped appears to be mailing the image out it does not appear that she is a blogger herself. I changed the title and slug to reflect that.- Trip
