The Clintons darken Obama photo; emphasizing Obama's darkness. Same old Clintons playing the race card..
A controversial new Hillary Clinton attack ad caused an Internet stir Tuesday among critics who claim it deliberately darkens Barack Obama’s skin color.
The buzz began earlier the day, when the liberal Web site DailyKos.com showed side-by-side screen grabs of Barack Obama taken during a debate with Clinton in Cleveland last week. The screen grab used in the ad showed a clearly darker-skinned Obama, prompting some to wonder if it was done to highlight his race.
Clinton spokesman Jay Carson responded initially by speculating the darkened image might have occurred as part of a normal “saturation-desaturation” process typical in commercial production. He said both Obama and Clinton have used that process in their ads, and denied any ulterior motive behind the campaign’s ad.
After checking with ad guru Mandy Grunwald, however, Carson later said the images on the DailyKos site were not taken from the Clinton ad at all. “We don’t know what is up there, but it is not our ad,” he insisted.
There is no way to independently confirm the accuracy of the images on DailyKos.com. But debate images of Obama taken by FOXNews.com directly from the ad in question on Clinton’s official Web site still seem to be clearly darker than images of Obama taken from another video clip from the debate.