THE CONDI RICE - USA TODAY SCANDAL - 10/25/2003

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[Jalapeno]

Anybody see the difference between the two photos below?

-- OJ Time Mage Mug Shot Pic Left Out For Blogger's Bandwith --

You guessed it. The Time Magazine version on the right was deliberately darkened to make OJ look more menacing, because as any liberal journalist knows, black is bad. The whole black community was up in arms about this scandal – as well they should have been. Under the heat of protest, Time issued an apology.

Now, Anybody see the difference between the two photos below?

You guessed it. The USA Today version on the right was deliberately altered to make Condi Rice look more menacing. Notice how the whites of the eyes are highlighted to make her BLACK eyes look BLACKER and HATEFUL. The doctored photo is here on USA Today's site (they'll probably take it down with some heat). You have to look overseas here to see an unbiased version. Under the heat of protest, will USA Today apologize? Or, don't they care about racism when directed at "house Niggas" like Condi? Rathergate, OJgate, now Condigate! What will the MSM think of next?

And if anybody would like to see why I think this is a scandal, take a look at an enlarged version of the photos that I put into photoshop and animated. This is scandalous stuff folks!

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[BackInBlack]

"I don't consider an accurate accusation of racism as 'putting a racial spin on it."

I meant "spin" without a pejorative connotation, which the word doesn't necessarily have; therefore, as I meant it, raising the issue of racism, accurate or not, is by definition to give it a racial spin.

However, in this case, my point was that the charge of racism was indeed inaccurate. You seemed to agree, when you said Condi's photo was doctored because she's a Republican, not because she's black. So I'm not sure what, exactly, you're arguing about.

[YHAOS]

“I meant 'spin' without a pejorative connotation, which the word doesn't necessarily have”

If the word has no pejorative connotation, I cannot conceive of a reason for it to be used. The word’s very existence is dependant upon the cast it gives to a statement of fact thereby bending its meaning to a more satisfactory (for the spinner) appearance. I will not accept the idea that the original poster’s criticisms consisted of racial ‘spin’. To suggest such a thing is to suggest the criticism was unmerited.

[BackInBlack]

"I will not accept the idea that the original poster’s criticisms consisted of racial ‘spin’. To suggest such a thing is to suggest the criticism was unmerited."

This is my last reply, so if you'd like the last word, please take it. You yourself suggested the criticism was unmerited when you said Condi's picture wasn't distorted because of her race, but because she's a Republican. I agree with that statement, and that was my point from the beginning. The original poster said it was racism, and I disagreed, as did you. See? We agree.