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.
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Reminds me of the pic of the “Glendening for Governor” bumpersticker plastered on the front of the podium at a Klan rally some years ago.
I read your response a second time. And my other answer still stands. I just wanted to add that not only do I know “photographs”, I know photographers. Something people should understand, as an aside, is that with the advent of the Internet news services, the pressure to get your photos uploaded immediately (and in most BIG venues like major sporting events and conventions) they actually have runners taking the digital cards back to a media room to upload images.
Quite honestly, this is the kind of picture I would take as a throw away, or to show to my wife (as in, can you believe what this clown was wearing.). That is one reason you don’t see much of an ID on the image. The guy uploading and captioning it for Getty is in New York City— he doesn’t know the shooter or the person in the picture.
Again, I am not trying to change your mind—but rather give you some perspective on the job of a photo journalist these days. I think you would be surprised at how many of us are conservative. We tend not to be art and liberal arts majors—but we came to the business through other routes. We roll our eyes a lot. We also make fun of the TV people. A lot.
LOL! Good for you!
Please don't take my comments as swinging some broad brush to paint all journalists, photographers, or anyone else involved in the business as liberals. I know they're not.
I also know some people are a holes and get their jollies by publicly displaying what most people would consider inappropriate behavior.
Liberals, however, constantly try to pretend 'the other side' is something they aren't. We've all seen it ourselves. The 'hate crime' that wasn't. The 'racism' that wasn't. All perpetrated by the liberals with the rationale "Well.... we're SURE it happened somewhere" when they're caught in the act.
My only point is that their own past actions now makes ALL their evidence suspect.
And we really have no way of knowing for certain if the guy uploading the photo in New York would have a clue as to whether it was photoshopped or not. Nor would we know for certain if the guy who uploaded it in New York wasn't the one who photo-shopped it.
As whether or not it IS photo-shopped;
Personally, I believe it is. You apparently believe that it's not.
We'll just have to agreeably agree to disagree on that one.
(grin)
The only thing more laughable than the attempts by these plants to make Republicans look racist are the comments under the articles that say something like “I was undecided but now that I see the types of racists Romney attracts, I a voting for Obama.”
2. Who puts a sticker on their back unless they plan to be photographed that way?
YOur point is you want something done about the press using this guys shirt is as a smear.
My point is that “something ,”whether he is a bigot or not...
Is defending his Right to Free Speech. We may not like it, but as far as I know there’s no law against being a bigot.
Provocative, but would anyone have even blinked at another T shirt or sign saying something like “The White House occupant needs a change to Black”? We get so outraged at these white supremacists because, ironically, we expect more from white people.
So, If there is a power outage on November 6th, we cannot call it a “blackout”.
Without the name, address etc. of the miscreant, this is just smear attempt.
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