Stephen Colbert doesn’t see the big deal in photoshopping your way to racial outreach, as long as you’re a Republican trailing in the polls.
Case in point: Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett (R), who recently saw a PR setback in his race against Democrat Tom Wolf.
Buzzfeed reported that a black woman shown chatting with Corbett in a photo on his website was actually a stock image photoshopped into the picture.
On Tuesday’s “Colbert Report,” the host saw it as a plot by the liberal media to ruin Corbett’s attempt at diversity.
“Corbett did this woman a favor!” he argued. “Before he pasted her into his own rainbow coalition, she was over on Shutterstock stuck in a boring meeting with a financial adviser.”
The Corbett campaign justified the move by saying that the photoshopped image represents the candidate’s appeal to all Pennsylvanians.
“See, they’re not pretending black women like him, they’re pretending anyone likes him!” Colbert said.
Watch the clip below, courtesy of Comedy Central:
Hey, some of Corbett’s best digital, slightly pixelated friends are black!
Frankly, I was more flabbergasted to learn on Colbert’s show that in Pennsylvania its perfectly legal to kill, sell and eat cats and dogs…and thanks to the NRA they’ll continue to do so. Wow. Pennsylvania has a Republican led legislature and a Republican governor. The state has really gone to hell. Between an insane amounts of fracking and being able to eat Fido…Pennsylvania really needs to get their shit together and vote these no-goodniks out of office.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/10/27/3584626/it-is-still-legal-to-breed-dogs-for-human-consumption-in-pennsylvania-thanks-to-the-nra/
And this story about Pennsylvania snookering the public in the lame duck session of their legislature is almost worse. The PA legislature pulled a couple of last minute moves I thought they only did in my home state, when politicians don’t want the public to really know what they’re up to.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/10/24/3584224/pennsylvania-lawmakers-sneak-big-gift-to-nra-into-bill-banning-copper-theft/
I guess its Pepe La Pew’s lucky week pulling the wool over everybody’s eyes in PA…
Edit: They should have called this the “Magneto Bill”.
PENNSYLVANIA — VOTE THE BUMS OUT!!! You’re better than this.
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I have to say that to my knowledge it doesn’t happen much. I imagine the proposed law was mostly a delightfully wicked attempt to see how willing the NRA is to make itself appear even more contemptible than it already is.
ETA Jesus, there really were people doing this breeding, for God’s sake. It’s legal in 44 states because we love freedom in this country more than we love not being horrible. The bill did pass the House, and was introduced by my own rep among many others. (God, this is embarrassing.)