Proof obama is a communist!
Posted on 10/14/2012 6:38:07 PM PDT by kristinn
A photograph taken by Getty Images on Friday of a man wearing a racist t-shirt at a Mitt Romney rally in Ohio has caused controversy over Getty’s unsubstantiated claim the man is a supporter of the Republican presidential nominee.
The photo showed a tight shot of the back of a bald-headed white man wearing a black t-shirt emblazoned with all-capitalized white lettering that said, “Put the white back in the White House.” Above the lettering at the nape of the man’s neck a Romney-Ryan sticker was neatly applied to the t-shirt.
Getty captioned the photo:
LANCASTER, OH - OCTOBER 12: A supporter of Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Republican vice presidential candidate U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) waits for a campaign event to begin on October 12, 2012 in Lancaster, Ohio. Ryan debated U.S. Vice President Joe Biden the evening before and Romney is scheduled to debate U.S. President Barack Obama for the second time on October 16. (Photo by Jamie Sabau/Getty Images)
A Getty representative speaking not for attribution told Breitbart the photographer did not speak with the man wearing the t-shirt and that he did not know with certainty the man was a Romney supporter. The representative did not know whether Getty would run a correction for the caption.
While liberals online pointed to the photograph as proof of racism among Romney supporters, conservatives wondered whether the man was a plant trying to make Romney look bad.
When Tea Party street activism was at its height, a movement called Crash the Tea Party was formed to infiltrate Tea Party rallies with liberal activists who would create bad optics for the Tea Party by acting out for the media liberal stereotypes of conservatives.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Proof obama is a communist!
Is it true that the guy wearing this shirt is the same SEIU guy who fired the shot through the obama campaign window?
Actually, the metadata says Oct. 12, 2012.
Go here:
And plug in the URL of the photo.
That said, note that the metadata was edited to include the full caption:
“LANCASTER, OH - OCTOBER 12: A supporter of Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Republican vice presidential candidate U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) waits for a campaign event to begin on October 12, 2012 in Lancaster, Ohio. Ryan debated U.S. Vice President Joe Biden the evening before and Romney is scheduled to debate U.S. President Barack Obama for the second time on October 16. (Photo by Jamie Sabau/Getty Images)”
It would be just as easy to change the date.
PING!
photo was obviously Photoshopped.
Created lies?
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Believe me when I say that he would have neither the time or inclination to photo-shop anything before transmitting it to Getty.
How would you know? Do you work for Getty? Do you know this guy?
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And finally, I recoded about 800 pictures with a January 2012 date just yesterday...the date 10122012 can be mistyped to 01122012 very easily.
Just because something can be doesn't mean it was.
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Has it occurred to anyone that 0.01% of people attending the rally might be bigots? And is anyone shocked by that? Good Lord, Snoop Dog call Mitt a “White Nigger” the other day. Should we believe that there are no black racists?
With all due respect, I don't know you from Adam, but you not only seem to be making up a lot of excuses and providing a lot explanations for them, you also want to lecture on being when we should be outraged.
It's like everyone else is talking about the elephant in the living room and you're yelling -
DON'T LOOK!
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Maybe it's just my cynical nature, but when anyone consistently tells me to trust and believe them.......
I usually don't.
Oh, cool!!
Thanks for the URL. I am bookmarking that.
This is where conservatives have a hard time.
Political Correctness vs. Freedom of Speech, when we find the speech reprehensible we are goaded into the liberal guilt trap.
The press has ginned up this photo as though all republicans need to meet some holier than thou liberal standard. The way to fight this is to uphold the Rights of the People. If blacks can say they are voting for 0bama because he is black....then why is it so horrible for a white man to vote for Romney based on the color of his skin...and actually say it? My first reponse to this article was..."So what?! It is his Right to say it."
Some of us. Those of us who were around before the political correctness hit the fan see it clearly for what it is.
As you've implied, (and like it or not) offensive speech is still FREE speech.
Too many folks though, confuse free speech with unlimited speech. They also think the right to speak includes the right to an audience.
In my experience, the easiest way to see if someone truly understands the rightful concept of free speech is when they are confronted with others of differing opinions who exercise the part of free speech I like to call the right of rebuttal.
When someone says something another finds reprehensible, most will just think 'that's disgusting'. Others will confront the miscreant, and call him the fool that he is.
But the ones who dislike the speech to the point they try to shut him up, either by physical force or 'laws'......
those people not only have NO clue as to the concept of free speech, they are certainly no conservative.
In fact, they're downright dangerous.
First of all, that’s not racist.
I know the media and other democrats are working furiously to “get” Romney on some racist charge. If they can’t find one, they make one up.
Anyone wearing racist shirts/hats and shouting racists bs, should be pummeled and then admitted to the nearest ICU.
Then, we can run a background on he/she/it to see what party they are really with.
That should stop this set up bs fairly fast.
As a matter of fact I have worked for Getty. And I am telling you that the suppositions here are just lame. Not everything is a conspiracy. Sometimes idiots show up in stupid shirts. And the fact that it was so outrageous is exactly what caught the attention of the photographer. He probably transmitted 50 or 60 pictures from the event and the editors pick them out.
What a lot of people assume, is just plain wrong.
The best explanation is usually the simplest.
All very true statements.
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So the simplest method would be to look at the photo itself, would it not?
You may know photographs, but I know fabric, and a letter traveling on a perfectly flat horizontal line does not continue to do so when confronted with vertical, 45 degree drape.
Believe the origins of the photograph as you will, but IMHO, their track record of lying about everything is enough to make it suspect, much less the evidence of ones own eyes.
I agree to disagree agreeably.
AND we both agree Obama must go.
So, we are on different ends of the same side.
Have a nice day. And get out the vote.
This is disturbing: https://twitpic.com/b45ykl #TCOT#ocra#RS#Vets http://pic.twitter.com/tt665ewX
You’re not even responding to my point. Rather, you’re telling me you don’t agree with something that I wasn’t saying.
My frustration is with the press picking out one individual and turning that into a stereotype of all conservatives, Republicans, or Romney supporters. If they can’t find someone that fits their meme, than they just make one up; remember the brouhaha over the imagined racial slurs and spitting on the capital steps?
Regarding your other comment, I would just say that two wrongs don’t make a right. I don’t think it’s right for people to be voting based on skin color, whether it’s white or black or whatever. It’s certainly your right to vote on whatever criteria you deem appropriate, but personally I don’t much care for bigots.
“Nobody reads it but liberal mental midgets anyway.”
Surely you’re not implying that a liberal can be anything but a mental midget...
Alinsky tactics used by the dems.
For sure.
Why didn’t the dems just send in a group wearing white hoods and holding signs with the same message?
The media bastards I mean.
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