Should anyone at all care about the fact that some jerk running for congress had his face put on a thinner body for a campaign photo? It's just a little bit of advertising sent to voters to present an image of himself, which obviously has no bearing on his policies, right? And the fact that the people putting his ad together felt they were doing him a favor by making him look better than he may actually look in real life doesn't really matter, does it? And since the people are clearly too smart to care about anything other than the real issues of the day, there's no reason to give a damn about any of this, is there? The truthiness will come through in the end.
Incidentally, doesn't democracy rely on an informed populace to function? No? Sorry, I must have been thinking of something else. I, for one, welcome our new, composite-imaged leaders. Long may their photoshopped visages shine.
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I get offended by Photoshopping when you do this bad a job of it: http://lonestartimes.com/2008/01/18/decapitated-dean/
Seriously, we were doing better work in Mr. McCannon's Mac lab in 9th grade.
Man! Talk about back in the day, defacing the ol' Hypercard Handbook cover again and again and again...
I don't know that Danny Goodman's face (http://www.dannyg.com/img/goodman.jpg) ever got so much devoted attention in his entire life.
But yeah, that was a pretty piss-weak bit of stitch-work done there. All that was missing were bolts on his neck and a sign in the background that said "All your base" or something.
Havelock Ellis sez: "Every society gets the criminals it deserves," which applies equally to politicians, except maybe we ought to modify it to "Every district gets the politicians it deserves, and then inflicts them on the rest of us."
Since this guy is running in Sugarland, the same foul Houston suburb that saddled us with Tom Delay, I feel like this is just the sort of piddling deception and mendacity that those fucks deserve. Except that then rest of the public (a.k.a. "us") will ultimately be forced to deal with the swine they choose.
It also reminds me that Lincoln was apparently one of the first big US politicians to use image manipulation -- they'd disseminate campaign pictures of him where he'd either have high collars on or where his ridiculously strung-out neck and bulbous Adam's apple were modified to look smaller than they actually were. The beard may have also been part of that effort at turkey-neck-minimization for PR purposes.
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