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Cruz Campaign Pushes Photoshopped Image of Rubio Shaking Hands with Obama
Mediate ^ | 02/18/16 | Alex Griswold

Posted on 02/18/2016 3:34:56 PM PST by Enlightened1

 
 
 

The Marco Rubio campaign is livid Thursday after the Ted Cruz campaign released a website that includes a photoshopped image of their candidate shaking hands with President Barack Obama.

Cruz’s website “The Real Rubio Record” ironically features a very unreal image of Rubio smiling ecstatically while shaking Obama’s hand. “The Rubio-Obama Trade Pact” the text ominously reads, a reference to Rubio’s support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The Cruz website also features a photoshopped image of Rubio smiling while leaning on a business sign reading “Closed.”

Among the red flags that the image is fake… who shakes with their left hand? Certainly not the right-handed Rubio.

The Rubio campaign was predictably less than amused. “This is how phony and deceitful the Cruz campaign has become,” Rubio advisor Todd Harris told a gaggle of reporters in South Carolina, while holding up the image in question.

The pushback comes after Cruz faced criticism for what his opponents termed “dirty tricks” in Iowa. In particular, Cruz was criticized for pointing out an official-looking flyer telling voters they faced a “voter violation” unless they voted for him, and for telling supporters to spread a rumor that Ben Carson was dropping out of the race.

UPDATE (11:13 AM): The Cruz campaign doubled down, telling CNN that they believe the image is authentic.

(Excerpt) Read more at mediaite.com ...


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To: napscoordinator

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61 posted on 02/18/2016 4:02:18 PM PST by pnut22
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To: Enlightened1

.....The Marco Rubio campaign is livid Thursday after the Ted Cruz campaign released a website that includes a photoshopped image of their candidate shaking hands with President Barack Obama.”......

LOLOLOL..now they’re all getting silly....


62 posted on 02/18/2016 4:02:23 PM PST by caww
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To: dynoman

Daily Beast ? Well then it must be true. /s


63 posted on 02/18/2016 4:02:29 PM PST by D Rider
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

When I saw it I thought it was supposed to be Europe - like a warning of what was to come here.


64 posted on 02/18/2016 4:03:06 PM PST by donna (Radicalized Christians become missionaries; then, they tell everyone that Jesus loves them!)
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To: tinyowl

Nice post.


65 posted on 02/18/2016 4:03:28 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel ("God only is my Rock and my Salvation; He is my Defence." (Psa 62:2))
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To: Enlightened1
UPDATE 2 (11:47 AM): The Cruz campaign is now walking back its initial denial, while not quite admitting the image is fake. "If Rubio has a better picture of him shaking hands with Barack Obama I'm happy to swap it out," Spokesman Rick Tyler told CNN. "Two days before presidential primary in South Carolina, they want to talk about a picture we used."

Meanwhile, Internet sleuths have tracked down the stock photo that was the basis for the photoshop the Cruz campaign won't say is a photoshop.

This guy Rick Tyler is a real piece of work.

The Cruz campaign professionals have mismanaged this campaign, and have destroyed whatever chance Ted Cruz had.

It has been one unforced error after another.

66 posted on 02/18/2016 4:03:29 PM PST by TontoKowalski (Satisfied Customer #291)
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To: katiedidit1

It doesn’t matter what Trump says or does because he is fun and irreverent. It matters what Cruz does because he is a mean cheater.


67 posted on 02/18/2016 4:03:49 PM PST by nitzy (I don't vote for Republican'ts)
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To: gg188

I’ve gotten to the point I don’t believe anything coming out of the Cruz campaign.


68 posted on 02/18/2016 4:04:33 PM PST by Duchess47 ("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
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To: Duchess47
Yes, I finally caught up. I went to the link provided on the 2nd line of the post first and commented on that. The other one is definitely as bogus as the day is long. Ted's actions in this campaign have been a real eye-opener for sure. No wonder he has been so hated by his colleagues.

I still contend that neither he or Rubio are qualified due to their birth statuses, and now I am really starting to not have as much support or respect for Ted as I used to have.

69 posted on 02/18/2016 4:05:12 PM PST by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: Robert DeLong
Sorry, Rubio is shaking with his right hand. I am certainly no supporter of Rubio, Trump all the way, but that statement is an out-an-out lie. Not sure about the, rest of the article because I stopped reading right there.

There was multiple pictures, one showed left hand shaking and the other right hand shaking. Obama is left handed, Rubio is right handed. So which hand is used I imagine would be determined by who lead first. Obviously someone is going to be using their off hand.

70 posted on 02/18/2016 4:06:22 PM PST by LowOiL (Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for that is how their fathers treated the false prophets.)
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To: Robert DeLong

Photo looks about right to me.....photo shopped is also ok by me...what’s the matter with Rubo...does he have YUGE Trump like sensitivity issues too?

Ol ben remains silent in this latest heap....he’s Trumps useful idiot....

Likely all the campagn pacs and others are playing these games because it is allowed....and it is a race.....

Must be Rubio wants the news focus.....


71 posted on 02/18/2016 4:08:54 PM PST by caww
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To: sushiman

It doesn’t look photo shopped it looks almost like a cartoon ... People don’t so weird-ed out... it is a Campaign ad.

sheesh


72 posted on 02/18/2016 4:09:36 PM PST by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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To: Robert DeLong

I agree with you that neither are qualified to be elected President by virtue of their birth.


73 posted on 02/18/2016 4:09:58 PM PST by Duchess47 ("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
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To: napscoordinator

Makes you wonder what the $800K Goldman Sachs is paying his wife is buying?

Pray America wakes


74 posted on 02/18/2016 4:11:57 PM PST by bray (Trump/Palin 2016)
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To: Robert DeLong
Expectations of Cruz are off the scale.....it's a race...games are played....insults and such are commonplace.......but especially Trumpeter's should be showing more tolerance than any others with the mouth their candidate has on him.....and the new found freedom of NOT being politically correct....looks like they expect that for everyone but Trump.... I say go at it guys and may the best man win! There just ads for crying out loud!
75 posted on 02/18/2016 4:12:16 PM PST by caww
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To: donna

At the time I defended team Trump on that video. Video relies on visuals. The picture was irrelevant to the substance of the point. On this “shook hands with Obama on immigration” the same principle applies. That video shows actual footage of Obama and Rubio — back and forth — point by point making the exact same talking points on immigration. “Shook hands with” was figurative. Obviously it is irrelevant whether they shook hands literally but is relevant that they “shook hands” figuratively. Photoshop is legitimately used to illustrate a figurative concept.

I also thought a picture illustrating immigration in general was ok to use as an illustration of the specific problem of immigration from Mexico.


76 posted on 02/18/2016 4:12:21 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
Photoshop is used all the time to demonstrate something

Cruz campaign says it's not a photoshop.

Has Marco shaken hands with Obama or not?

Fake but accurate!

77 posted on 02/18/2016 4:13:31 PM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Robert DeLong

How sleazy to use Photoshop in a political ad to illustrate an opponents positions. I bet it has never been done before, it is an unprecedented outrage to use a graphic that is not an untouched original photograph. I also noticed an ad used by Cruz where words appeared on a photo and those words were certainly not on the original photograph and must have been added later by some nasty dirty trick. I know that neither Trump or his supporters would ever stoop to such dirty tricks.


78 posted on 02/18/2016 4:13:56 PM PST by DaveyB (Live free or die!)
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To: dforest

It doesn’t matter if it is or not....it’s a campaign add and war of words and ads.....on with it and the best an win!


79 posted on 02/18/2016 4:13:59 PM PST by caww
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To: Robert DeLong

Well gee. That’s pretty obvious metaphor. Clearly not an eyewitness photo denoting evidence any more than a cartoon is.

Photoshopped, CGI’d or whatever, it’s obviouly an illustration.


80 posted on 02/18/2016 4:14:19 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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