Just when I think NRO cannot stoop any lower in their continuing campaign vendetta against Newt Gingrich, NRO debases itself even further. This time by employing Time/Newsweek left-wing media photo tricks.
Please note the article's accompanying spliced side-by-side photo image. The spliced photo of Rick Santorum is a sunny, bright, frontal view of Santorum smiling out to the viewer. The image of Gingrich is dark and shadowy with Newt's back to the viewer and has the appearance of Newt giving an over-the-shoulder sneer.
Honestly, NRO didn't have any photos of Newt smiling and glancing to his left (or reversing a photo of Newt smiling and glancing to his right)?
There is no excuse for this pathetic, sophomoric, intentional and underhanded effort to subliminally demean Gingrich!! Please go to National Review's website and express your outrage at the editors for their slimy activity!
I guess I'm stunned that NRO didn't instead choose to repeat its depiction of Newt in cartoon form.
What happened? Did Warner Bros. threaten to sue over NRO's Newt parody of Marvin the Martian?
NRO, have you no shame?
You seem a little overexcited.
NR has been in the tank for Romney for 5 or 6 years now. They’re just trying to stir up trouble between Gingrich and Santorum, in order to help Mitt.
You make a valid point, it’s really sleezy of them.
Well, the bright side is that a few more jobs reports like this one and we won’t need to worry about Romney for too much longer. The establishment and all the punidts will get their guy, Obama will dispatch him easily, he’ll finally be out of the way and hopefully will take down all his supporters with him, and then conservatives can begin focusing on finding a real candidate for 2016.
But we’ll have to start early. I mean we can’t have it be like this year where we’re pinning all our hopes on Newt and Santorum. One guy who wasn’t even seriously running until late November/early December and another guy who was at 1% in Dec, raised all of $2 million for 2011 and basically ended up winning IA by default after everyone else fell apart and he got the Van Der Plaats endorsement to push him over the top by all of 8 votes or so.
We need to have someone like Romney. Someone who as soon as the election is called for Obama around 9-11PM on Nov 6, decides by 11:01 that they’re running for President and starts preparing that minute. If they have 3 years worth of preparation and organization and a network all built up by 2016 they’ll be in much better shape than any of the conservatives were this year.
To me, the Newt photo makes Newt look serious and the photo of Rick makes Rick look goofy.
Thanks for the post. Yes, it is a heavy handed, unfair selection of photos.
They want to portray him as being mean, I guess.
Not surprising. NRO is full of RINOs, and Santorum is a RINO. They’re the perfect fit.
I went to see what all the hoohah is about. I don’t see much to get excited over.
I suspect they wanted shots of each man facing the other. I actually think the photo of Newt is pretty good. He has a slight smile that makes him look about as friendly as Newt can be without looking goofy. I don’t see a sneer at all.
I will agree that the photo is a little dark and that may be intended as a subliminal image, but that’s politics, my man
Santorum looks worse.
Which of the pictures did you think was sneering? GIngrich looked presidential and thoughtful; Santorum had a kind of half-smile expression that seemed more off-putting to me.
Of course, Gingrich is never going to look “as good” as Santorum, even if you run a picture of him from 20 years ago.