Was he this dark?
Posted on 09/22/2012 11:44:48 AM PDT by Kaslin
At a time when 23 million Americans are unemployed and unemployed, the national debt is exploding, and poverty rates are the highest they’ve ever been, the national media should be focused on issues of paramount importance. That didn’t happen on Friday. Instead, at a “Meet the Candidate” event in Florida sponsored by Univision, a bunch of Lefty bloggers accused Governor Romney of “darkening his skin” in order to curry favor with Latino voters. Appalling:
Mitt Romney appeared on Univision's "Meet the Candidate" event on Wednesday evening to talk about issues of importance to Latino voters, including immigration, education and foreign policy. But thousands of bloggers, Facebook subscribers and Twitter users across the country focused more on the candidate's complexion than on his message.
Social media platforms were abuzz on Wednesday with the insinuation that the GOP candidate had somehow darkened his skin before coming on Univision's forum. The accusation was reported on by The Huffington Post, Gawker and Wonkette, among others, receiving thousands of comments on the sites combined.
So is it true? Of course not:
Here at ABC/Univision, we wanted to clear the air a bit and find out what really happened.
So we asked the man who saw it first hand -- makeup artist Lazz Rodriguez, who applied powder and concealer to the candidate's skin that night. The verdict?
"When he walked in, I remember thinking, 'Wow this is tanner than I thought he was,' but I think he's just been outside a lot lately for his campaign," Rodriguez noted. "It was definitely a real tan."
Rodriguez has been a makeup artist for 25 years, and has applied cosmetics to hundreds of famous faces, including many celebrities and politicians, and a handful of presidents.
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Rodriguez says that his makeup of choice for the evening was MAC NW30, a medium-range loose powder that he applies to "cut the glare" of stage lights.
The ABC/Univision News team decided to investigate the claims that Romney was wearing powder that was too dark, stopping in at the local Miami MAC store after Thursday's "Meet the Candidate" event with Obama to test out the exact make and model. Indeed, we concluded after various trials that the NW30 was a medium-ranged hue that looked natural on a range of beige skin tones. The color was perhaps a tad too dark on Politics Editor Jordan Fabian, just about right on reporter Julia Saenz, and a shade too light on Miami-boy and Managing Editor Fernando Rodriguez-Vila. But, even when we caked the stuff on, NW30 wasn't notably dark on a range of skin tones under harsh lights.
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"I also don't want this to jeopardize a career I've worked so hard to build in this field," he said. "He was tan from being out in the sun on the campaign trail -- that's the only possible explanation."
I’m a bit surprised by the frivolity of these accusations. Then again, if the guy I was supporting for president (a candidate who campaigned on the slogan “Hope & Change” in 2008) admitted during a Q & A session “you can’t change Washington from the inside,” it’s easy to understand why liberals are freaking out. Forward!
Lol!
Clinton did used to change his hair color if I remember correctly.
And Obama whitened skin at a midwestern state fair
I don’t think I’ve ever seen the leftist pigs more desperate than they are now.
Was he this dark?
He is too “white.”
He is too “dark.”
He is too “rich.”
He is too “inexperienced.”
Blah, blah...
Nothing will cure their insanity, it will go on forever, may as well just ignore them (that pizzes them off too).
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Who did his makeup for the show?
It is odd but I was watching a re-run of a TV series last night and would have sworn the actress who was wearing a Cleopatra outfit, had darkened her skin.
Maybe to look more Egyptian, maybe just the way the light was but it sure did look like it. So much that I thought it was noticeable.
Have the lefty bloggers ever commented on the cover up of O’s purple lips?
Let me get this straight: they investigated Romney's makeup?
This is the same kneepad media that couldn't be bothered with all the inconsistencies in Obama's past?
Coppertone Kerry! People aren’t usually orange without chemical assistance or too many carrots in their diet.
I notice that although every picture of Moochelle’s ass makes it look big, others make it look totally Bathsheba Butt gargantuan. Camera angle? Airbrushing? Alien butt pods about to hatch? :^0
So what did they say when Hitlery used the worst southern accent in the history of the world in front of a southern audience? (”I am no ways tired...” Her southern accent was worse than the 3 or 4 times that Keanu Reeves turned his on in the movie Devil’s Advocate.)
How about Biden telling a black crowd that “they’ll put y’all back in chains!!” Nope, Romney is the travesty here.
And the page who brought Romney’s tray of food to the green room noted that Romney ate nothing else but a mini taco and a slice of mango, both known to be Mexican treats.
And he forgot to remove the cockroach that woke him up that morning.
That's the tan John (F'n) Kerry got while he was in Vietnam.
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