Posted on 08/03/2005 10:34:39 PM PDT by presidio9
During the presidential election recount of 2000, Florida was in a white- hot spotlight, focused on a woman not accustomed to national publicity - then-Secretary of State Katherine Harris. Harris' decision against a ballot recount made her a hero to Republicans and anathema to Democrats. She also was bashed for something else: her makeup.
One Democratic commentator compared her to Cruella DeVil of the Disney movie ``101 Dalmatians.'' Comic Jay Leno said a cold snap made Florida so chilly Harris ``put on a third layer of makeup.''
On Monday, on a conservative radio talk show, Harris, now a congresswoman from Longboat Key running for the U.S. Senate, hit back, blaming newspapers for the criticism and charging that some - without saying which - altered her photographs.
``I'm actually very sensitive about those things, and it's personally painful,'' Harris said when host Sean Hannity asked about her image problems from 2000.
``But they're outrageously false, No. 1, and No. 2, you know, whenever they made fun of my makeup, it was because the newspapers colorized my photograph,'' Harris said.
She didn't explain what she meant by ``colorized.''
Asked Tuesday to point to an altered photograph, Harris and her staff could not.
Her response to the question, said spokesman Adam Goodman, was, ``I haven't worn blue eye shadow since the seventh grade when I was in the Girl Scouts.'' She didn't name a newspaper that showed blue eye shadow.
Asked why Harris would make the accusation that photos had been altered - an ethical breach for most newspapers - he said, ``I think what she's saying is the number of photographs that were run that were unflattering was large, and that was unfair because the only reason this was made a caricature built around cosmetics was because she was a woman.''
Most newspapers, including the Tribune, forbid changing photographic images.
``Manipulating an image in any form is not allowed'' by The Associated Press, which distributes photos to newspapers nationwide, said David Ake, AP national deputy photography director. ``We're pretty adamant about that. We have terminated people for it.''
Ake was AP photo editor in Florida during the 2000 recount, ``and I can tell you we did no manipulation whatever,'' he said.
Some political experts say Harris' charge makes little sense because most Americans got their visual image of Harris from television.
At least two Harris news conferences in November 2000, detailing her decision to enforce a deadline and forbid recount results, got national TV coverage.
``Of course it wasn't newspapers, it was television,'' said Larry Sabato, a political scientist at the University of Virginia. ``I can remember watching her and thinking she learned all the wrong makeup lessons from Al Gore in the debates.''
Even some feminists who oppose Harris said she was the victim of a double standard.
``She got the criticism anybody in a political hot spot would get, but what she also got, what women get, is more attention to the things that are different from men,'' said Marie Wilson, of the White House Project, an organization that seeks to advance women in politics.
The minute she started a line during the attempted vote heist with "know this", I cringed and thought she sounded like a simpleton. Perhaps she has a gripe with those who printed newspapers for too much hue, but she needs to spend more time proving her smarts than complaining about critics of her appearance back then, IMO.
Well, that certainly is blue eye shadow. Either she's lying, nuts, or victim of a bizarre smear job. (by smear job, I'm not referring to her makeup. :^D)
I thought she showed a lot of class during that time. Her critics went after her for makeup and fur coats, etc. Typical Carville approach. Why join it?
Something is odd with that photo. Either that or she does makeup down on her neck also. The skin around the necklace is the same color as parts of her face.
Harris did good by Bush and the USA in 2000 and should be shown serious loyalty where feasible.
That said, this lady is beautiful (eye shadow, photoshopping or not) and this is not the kind of thing I'd advise her to fuss about, she needs to save all possible political capital for when she really needs it.
Bump what you said.
The lady has GUTS and she brushed off the scumbags in Florida like dandruff back in 2000.
That's not sexy!
It's not about sexy. She should get serious and drop the subject already.
Well said.
Define old.
She looks GREAT.
She took care of the chads:)Guts,Beautiful.She has my vote.
By the way, the "colorization" looks like it was done with fooling with gamma settings and tint... something that could be done with motion footage.
Where did you get that photo?
What about this AP photo manipulated by CBS to show a future Islamic United States?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1455677/posts
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=16907_The_United_States_of_Islam&only
The credit under the picture reads “(AP/CBS)”
Drudge
When someone (anyone) is scheduled to appear on television they are usually made up by make up artists because the camera has a tendency to make people look washed out.
The only people I know here on FR that have appeared as guests on television shows are mhking and Trueblackman so I've pinged them to see if they had a makeup person attend them for their television appearance.
Another thing to remember is that photographers can use different filters depending on the lighting available. Filters can enhance or change the color or the makeup worn. They can also make a person look completely washed out
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