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Fox News Making Obama Look Darker?
Matt NegrinPosted: Aug 19th 2008 9:56PM
Filed under: US Elections, Politics, Boston University, MediaWould you be surprised if I told you that Fox News, the alleged "news organization" you can always turn to for complete coverage of President Bush's birthday, may be airing images of Barack Obama that make his skin look darker than it really is?
One Denver Westward blogger doesn't think that's very far-fetched, reading a lot into Fox's use of pictures in this story and elsewhere. Remember, this isn't the first time Fox flacks have doctored photos (or used very specific selection methods) to make people they don't like look bad. There's reason to be suspicious, though we're certainly not in TIME/O.J. territory here.
We're in an election that is supposed to be beyond race, that can be about where the real people want to take this country, but unfortunately race doesn't seem to be going away any time soon.
And it may become an even bigger factor on election day.
Rebecca Curtis of the liberal Huffington Post hypothesizes that Obama will lose the election because most white people who say they will vote for him will have last-second changes of heart in the voting booths. Tabbed the "Bradley effect" after a black Los Angeles mayor who lost California's gubernatorial race despite tremendous leads in polls, the social phenomenon has only one remedy for Obama, says Curtis: Hillary Clinton as a running mate.
Yeah, right.
There are about a million reasons why Obama won't run with Clinton. But more importantly, the whole Bradley effect thing is striking, as the Post points out:
1989: A black lieutenant governor of Virginia squeaks by with a win in the gubernatorial race by half a point after enjoying a nine-point lead ahead of a white Republican.
1989: A black mayoral candidate has an 18-point edge over a white Republican (Rudy Giuliani), and only wins by 2 points.
1990: A black Democrat running for Senate in North Carolina is seen winning by 4 to 6 points, but loses to a white Republican by 6 points.
The number flops are apparently caused by white voters lying in polls so they don't seem racist. Others plan on voting for the black candidate up until they push the button, but have a panic attack behind the curtain and go with the safe pick -- whitey.
At least with Fox News, it's a little easier to know where things stand.
(Other Fox News news: Jesse, the 'N Word' and Fox News, Fox's Doctored Photos Are a Disgrace to Photoshop, Fox Analyst Jokes of 'Osama, Obama' Being Killed, Fist-Pounding the Media.)
One Denver Westward blogger doesn't think that's very far-fetched, reading a lot into Fox's use of pictures in this story and elsewhere. Remember, this isn't the first time Fox flacks have doctored photos (or used very specific selection methods) to make people they don't like look bad. There's reason to be suspicious, though we're certainly not in TIME/O.J. territory here.We're in an election that is supposed to be beyond race, that can be about where the real people want to take this country, but unfortunately race doesn't seem to be going away any time soon.
And it may become an even bigger factor on election day.
Rebecca Curtis of the liberal Huffington Post hypothesizes that Obama will lose the election because most white people who say they will vote for him will have last-second changes of heart in the voting booths. Tabbed the "Bradley effect" after a black Los Angeles mayor who lost California's gubernatorial race despite tremendous leads in polls, the social phenomenon has only one remedy for Obama, says Curtis: Hillary Clinton as a running mate.
Yeah, right.
There are about a million reasons why Obama won't run with Clinton. But more importantly, the whole Bradley effect thing is striking, as the Post points out:
1989: A black lieutenant governor of Virginia squeaks by with a win in the gubernatorial race by half a point after enjoying a nine-point lead ahead of a white Republican.
1989: A black mayoral candidate has an 18-point edge over a white Republican (Rudy Giuliani), and only wins by 2 points.
1990: A black Democrat running for Senate in North Carolina is seen winning by 4 to 6 points, but loses to a white Republican by 6 points.
The number flops are apparently caused by white voters lying in polls so they don't seem racist. Others plan on voting for the black candidate up until they push the button, but have a panic attack behind the curtain and go with the safe pick -- whitey.
At least with Fox News, it's a little easier to know where things stand.
(Other Fox News news: Jesse, the 'N Word' and Fox News, Fox's Doctored Photos Are a Disgrace to Photoshop, Fox Analyst Jokes of 'Osama, Obama' Being Killed, Fist-Pounding the Media.)
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zep
1:23AM 1:23AM Aug 20th 2008
Where is there any proof of your claim that Fow News doctored a single photo ever? I suppose you can substantiate this with factual proof? I can see your cynical bias as easily as you make an ASS out of yourself.You are not a writer or journalist.You are merely a sludgeman purveyer of simpleton thinking,trying to appeal to the worst of society's non thinking feeling only idiots of the left.In the grand scheme of your so-called profession you are a footnote to the big lie and less than nothing.
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Ed W
6:14AM 6:14AM Aug 22nd 2008
You want proof that Fox News has altered photos? Try mediamatters, vanityfair, and about a half a dozen other websites that have comparisons of the pictures Fox doctored of a couple of New York times employees who they thought were badmouthing them with the original photos. I happened to be watching when Fox aired them thought to myself "It looks that guy's got something wrong with him when I saw the one where they widened the photos nose, elongated the head and made the ears stick out. Bill O'Reilly more or less admitted that those photos were doctored and compared them to caricatures drawn of him. Of course doctored photos and caracatures are like apples and oranges, but I wouldn't expect anybody that listens a guy who uses "body language experts" to tell his viewers what people are thinking instead of letting their words speak for themselves and then calling his parlor trick chicanery a "no spin zone" to understand anything. Even though I'm no fan of palm readers, tea leaf readers or crystal ball swamis, I would like to hear what Billdo's body language expert would have to say about why Bush's tongue flicks in and out of his mouth like some kind of epileptic turtle every time he gives a speech.
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Marilyn
2:47PM 2:47PM Aug 22nd 2008
Are you serious?!?!? there hasn't been an honest sentence come out of any Republicans mouth this whole last term. That will be my theme when I show up to demonstrate at the comvention next month.
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Ike
11:45AM 11:45AM Sep 11th 2008
Just search 'fox doctored photos' and decide for yourselves.
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Ike
12:35PM 12:35PM Sep 11th 2008
Click on the link 'doctored photos' in the above article.
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JGENDOES
11:52PM 11:52PM Aug 19th 2008
BOSTON UNIV BLOG. THE LEFT WING COLLEGE OF THE NORTH,IS BAD MOUTHING FOX NEWS? I WOULD HAVE NEVER GUESSED..........
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Bettybb
1:04AM 1:04AM Aug 20th 2008
This article has Obama and Obamabots,once again, playing the race card. The elections cited are 20 years old. Dispictable Obamabot conduct. America is not buying it.
There are multiple reasons for not voting for Obama; his racism, sexism and bigotry come to mind, not to mention his taking both sides of any issue, depending on who his is speaking to.
It will be interesting to see how badly Obama loses as compared to the polls. But to the independent polls, not the phony, results determined in advance Obama and Obamabot polls.
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wizkin
4:24PM 4:24PM Aug 20th 2008
I may be color biased too, but when I look at the US today and recall 8 years ago, I cannot let the country continue on as it has.
We have died from within: treaty breaking, torture, bogus war, shame abroad, inflation, 'family values' that mean don't get caught, and on and on.
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LINDA TUCCILLO
2:03AM 2:03AM Aug 20th 2008
get a life ! you people are whacked !!!!!!! ENOUGH W/THE CONSPIRACY !
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Dianna Hinman
5:17AM 5:17AM Aug 20th 2008
Fox news really does scare liberals when is sheds light on the left leaning news media. It seems that the, Michael Jackson Effect, usually spawned by CNN and the rest of their fellow travelers has been balanced somewhat be the Fox news. While Left wing bloggers have often, more than hinted about Fox's darker political agenda versus the unbiased purity of the New York Times, I am glad this has finally been exposed or perhaps overdeveloped so to speak. No matter how much clorox the left sprays on BO, they may lighten him up a little, but he still won't pass the whiff test.
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Gerard
4:56AM 4:56AM Aug 20th 2008
Now -- come on, get a life! Who is racist? How about using the term "whitey"? Now we know who the racist is! A man once said he refused to recognize race, because in doing so it would be creating a bias -- to be color blind makes you look instead for the character of a person. How is that for affirmative action?
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ANGIE
6:19PM 6:19PM Sep 8th 2008
Why did we ever need affirmative action in the first place? If white America could see past the end of their nose, racism would not be an issue today.
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FRANK SNYDER
7:29AM 7:29AM Aug 20th 2008
Fox news tell it like it is,not like NBC, MSNBC, and CNN they are so far up Obama ass, all they can see is black,
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Leah
9:33AM 9:33AM Aug 21st 2008
If you wanted to make this a credible article you should have showed comparative photos. Not that smart people would believe something so juvenile and fabricated anyway. Back up your story, thats what Fox News would do.
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Cindy
10:27AM 10:27AM Aug 20th 2008
Give me a break, this is rediculous. I can only believe there must be an obomite playing the race card. ........ Hello........it's about qulifications.
Honest Man McCan
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MANGOG
2:04PM 2:04PM Aug 20th 2008
I like Whitey!! He is the safe pick and don't you forget it! The debates will further expose Hussein Obama as a junior Senator fresh picked from the liberal fruit tree by Dean, Pelosi, and Reid. No way can the chump with no experience win and that is a sigh of relief to all you disillusioned worshippers of Hussein Obama.
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Michael
3:19PM 3:19PM Aug 20th 2008
American's are making the election a racial issue, no matter what anyone does or says. The funny thing about it all is that Barak Obama is not black and is not white, he is BOTH. The point is, that race is NOT an issue in the election, no matter how hard Obama trys to make it such. BARAK OBAMA IS NOT BLACK, IS NOT WHITE, BUT IS BOTH. So the race issue is moot.
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Adrianne
4:42PM 4:42PM Aug 20th 2008
Halle Berry once quoted her mother on a Barbara Walter's special stating, 'my mother said you are what people see. Their 1st impression of you is how they see you. And people see you as black, so you may be mixed, but you are black'
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Magic1808
3:34PM 3:34PM Aug 20th 2008
Even though Barak Obama is trying to use race as an issue in this upcoming election, the truth of the matter is that he is neither all Black or all White, he is BOTH BLACK AND WHITE. So this should not be an issue at all. If this issue is going to be such a big deal, please put a third choice on the polls, BLACK, WHITE, BOTH BLACK AND WHITE. PEOPLE, OBAMA IS NOT BLACK OR WHITE. This is not an issue at all unless you want to include OREO.
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quigley
3:49PM 3:49PM Aug 20th 2008
PS stop writing articles.
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