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Did ABC & Gibson Use Camera Trickery To Belittle Gov. Palin?
NewsBusters ^ | September 13, 2008 | Warner Todd Huston

Posted on 09/14/2008 6:42:46 AM PDT by Zakeet

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To: Zakeet

The first time I saw a shot of Sarah and Gibson, I started to post that HE was in a bigger chair to make Sarah look smaller. Then I took another look and saw that the chairs were the same design. So I distrusted my own eyes and didn’t post. NOW, I know that what I saw was correct. NEVER TRUST THE LIB MEDIA.


61 posted on 09/14/2008 8:04:24 AM PDT by kitkat (EX DEO LIBERTAS (From God, liberty))
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

I guess photographers have to stick together and defend their “shoddy” practices from those of us who know the media is full of Obama supporters and Palin haters.


62 posted on 09/14/2008 8:06:20 AM PDT by LimaLimaMikeFoxtrot ("If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir"-Gen.Sherman)
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To: sbMKE

***Palin is also a foot shorter than Obama. Just saying - they’d have to put her on a stack of phonebooks to get the same shots.***

In the first shot I saw on FR, Palin’s chair looked definitely smaller than Gibson’s. I wondered why they gave her such a short chair.


63 posted on 09/14/2008 8:10:34 AM PDT by kitkat (EX DEO LIBERTAS (From God, liberty))
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To: Zakeet
Photobucket Eliminating the ABC Photographic Propagandist Trickery and you get THIS. (I left in the foot thing Gibson tried)
64 posted on 09/14/2008 8:13:57 AM PDT by RetSignman (DEMSM: "If you tell a big enough lie, frequently enough, it becomes the truth")
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To: Zakeet

It is alright .. McCain/Palin are going to win in 2008, and when they are sworn in Jan 09... Gibson can have a seat in the far, far pews.


65 posted on 09/14/2008 8:14:28 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776 ( Our Mamma beats your Obama)
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To: Robulus

My mother who is not that political, and loves Charlie, watched the interview and thought HE was horrible. She had to turn it off. She does love Sarah though!


66 posted on 09/14/2008 8:16:50 AM PDT by tndarlin
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To: Zakeet
Gibson did the Bill Moyers twist..
Moyers uses propaganda tricks like a pro..
prolly because he IS A PRO..
67 posted on 09/14/2008 8:24:40 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: hershey; Larry Lucido; MotleyGirl70; Cagey; Gamecock
It was a repeat of the Seinfeld episode where his latest girlfriend morphed into Ugly with shadows on her face.

GEORGE: So, attractive one day - not attractive the next?

JERRY: Have you come across this?

GEORGE: Yes, I am familiar with this syndrome -- she's a two-face.

JERRY: Like the Batman villain?

GEORGE: (Annoyed) If that helps you..

68 posted on 09/14/2008 8:26:55 AM PDT by Mr. Brightside
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To: piytar

It was the first thing my husband said-he didn’t realize what a large man Gibson was and how small Sarah Palin is.

Guess we know now it was the camera distortions!!


69 posted on 09/14/2008 8:28:33 AM PDT by okokie (40 days of Prayer and fasting to end abortion Sept 24-Nov 2 http://www.40daysforlife.com/splash.cfm)
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To: Zakeet

Gibson, the Biased ABC Media Bully [looking down his nose from up on high]:
"Please take off your American flag pin. The American flag is an abomination now prohibited by ABC News."


Charlie Gibson's Gaffee

"The Times got it wrong. And Charlie Gibson got it wrong.
There is no single meaning of the Bush doctrine. In fact, there have been four distinct meanings,
each one succeeding another over the eight years of this administration--
and the one Charlie Gibson cited is not the one in common usage today.
...... I know something about the subject because, as the Wikipedia entry
on the Bush doctrine notes, I was the first to use the term.
"
Charles Krauthammer


Comparison: Gibson Questions for Obama (and Edwards in 2004) vs. for Sarah Palin

Obama's Puff-piece interview:
How does it feel to break a glass ceiling?
How does it feel to “win”?
How does your family feel about your “winning” breaking a glass ceiling?
Who will be your VP?
Should you choose Hillary Clinton as VP?
Will you accept public finance?
What issues is your campaign about?
Will you visit Iraq?
Will you debate McCain at a town hall?
What did you think of your competitor’s [Clinton] speech?

Palin's 'kangaroo court' interview:
Do you have enough qualifications for the job you’re seeking?
Specifically have you visited foreign countries and met foreign leaders?
Aren’t you conceited to be seeking this high level job?
Questions about foreign policy
-territorial integrity of Georgia
-allowing Georgia and Ukraine to be members of NATO
-NATO treaty
-Iranian nuclear threat
-what to do if Israel attacks Iran
-Al Qaeda motivations
-the Bush Doctrine
-attacking terrorists harbored by Pakistan
Is America fighting a holy war? [misquoted Palin]


"Charles Gibson of ABC News was out for blood and inherently applied
a double-standard compared with the kid gloves George Stephanopoulos
used on Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois on Sunday night.
Gibson was out to embarrass Palin and expose her presumed ignorance from the word go. "

UPI Say ABC Exhibits Double Standard


Did ABC & Gibson Use Camera Trickery To Belittle Gov. Palin?

"While it's true that Governor Palin is of less stature than Mr. Gibson,
the deliberate choice of the camera's height, framing and the use of
telephoto lenses all serve to make Mr. Gibson look overpowering
and Governor Palin the weak prey. This is common shooting technique
we use to make a villain appear more ominous.
"


ABC News Edited Out Key Parts of Sarah Palin Interview


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70 posted on 09/14/2008 8:33:49 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: sbMKE
Palin is also a foot shorter than Obama. Just saying - they’d have to put her on a stack of phonebooks to get the same shots

Hillary is very short, most likely shorter than the b'ball playing Sarah.

Look at the above picture of Hillary with Gibson and then look at the picture Sarah with Gibson.

Just sayin'.

71 posted on 09/14/2008 8:36:13 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: Grampa Dave

I’ve never seen him wear glasses before this interview.

It looked like she was sitting in the principals office to be scolded.


72 posted on 09/14/2008 8:37:38 AM PDT by okokie (40 days of Prayer and fasting to end abortion Sept 24-Nov 2 http://www.40daysforlife.com/splash.cfm)
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To: tubebender

That’s OK, it will come back to bite them in the end. ;)


73 posted on 09/14/2008 9:00:51 AM PDT by SouthTexas (Invert the 5-4 and you have no rights.)
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To: nuconvert
You mean this:

Note how the distant lakeshore horizon emphasizes the difference.

74 posted on 09/14/2008 9:11:16 AM PDT by Atlas Sneezed (Guns don't kill people, criminals and the governments that create them do.)
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To: Beelzebubba

I didn’t get as far as looking out the window.
The image of her looking like a little schoolgirl in a classroom or the principal’s office was enough.


75 posted on 09/14/2008 9:42:27 AM PDT by nuconvert (Obama - Preferred by 4 out of 5 Dictators & Terrorists// Rove>Biden is a Big,Blowhard Dufus)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

Awesome, thank you!

They used editing techniques as well:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2081027/posts


76 posted on 09/14/2008 9:44:28 AM PDT by waus
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To: Zakeet

There are no ‘coincidences’ where the cesspool sycophancy for Obama are concerned. ABC calculated their presentation to try and assist their demigod almost-blackman. And they even deemed their efforts not quite enough, extensive though they were to try and belittle Governor Palin, so they lead the 20/20 segment with a seven minute assassination attempt narrated by the leftist ugliness, Kate Snow. What I want to know is what were the viewing numbers for that obscenity from ‘what-a-hoot’ Gibson and turd company?


77 posted on 09/14/2008 9:52:10 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: LimaLimaMikeFoxtrot

There is one possible answer to this question.

If the handlers were simply standing off to the side and watching Palin and Gibson directly, then, there really isn’t anyway that they could have known about the visual bias taking place.

However, if they were watching the interview on the tv monitors that showed what the cameras were shooting, then, the Palin people should have picked up on the trickery.


78 posted on 09/14/2008 9:58:37 AM PDT by waus
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To: Bobby_Jones

Nice try, n00bie. Pick that turd up and take it out of here with you.


79 posted on 09/14/2008 10:02:22 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: nuconvert

I didn’t get as far as looking out the window.
The image of her looking like a little schoolgirl in a classroom or the principal’s office was enough.


The key isn’t that HE looms over her, it is that the camera (and viewer) looks down on her.


80 posted on 09/14/2008 10:03:10 AM PDT by Atlas Sneezed (Guns don't kill people, criminals and the governments that create them do.)
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