How Imagery Is Used To Manipulate Public Impression
It really is showing to be a party of self-destruct tendencies under the guise of self-preservation. From every level. From every corner.
I recall a couple months back ABC’s Jake Tapper commented in his political blog that you always seem to see positive pictures of Obama … as a matter of fact, he is usually shown in some ‘heavenly’ light, one way or another.
Tapper: General election project for Political Punch readers: Let’s keep track of how many Holy images of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, make their way into print.
(And bad ones, if any. And of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., let’s keep track as well — photos of him looking heavenly or, conversely, old and feeble.)
- jpt
Talk about “subliminal” messaging …
Tapper also cautioned to be sure to make note of how Sen. John McCain would be ‘photographed’ by the press. You would NOT see a flattering picture of the man. Quite the contrary, only the worst angles and ‘gottcha’ candid pictures would be used of McCain by the press.Well, right from the jackass’s mouth, if you will … Oh! NOT Tapper, BTW. Jackass was meant for the photographer mentioned below. The jury is still out on Tapper, for me at least … although I have found him more even-handed than most.
The fact is, even though these idiots and dolts don’t quite care or understand it, the majority of the American public is onto them … and just is getting real sick of it.
From Newsbusters.org
On Friday, the photography website PDNPulse published a virtual exposé about a professional photographer that admitted taking an intentionally diabolical looking picture of McCain that she hoped would be on the cover of October’s Atlantic magazine (emphasis added throughout, photo courtesy The Atlantic, h/t NB reader Drew Hallowell):
When The Atlantic called Jill Greenberg, a committed Democrat, to shoot a portrait of John McCain for its October cover, she rubbed her hands with glee. She delivered the image the magazine asked for—a shot that makes the Republican presidential nominee look heroic. Greenberg is well known for her highly retouched images of bears and crying babies. But she didn’t bother to do much retouching on her McCain images. “I left his eyes red and his skin looking bad,” she says.
However, that’s not the picture Greenberg hoped the Atlantic would use:
After getting that shot, Greenberg asked McCain to “please come over here” for one more set-up before the 15-minute shoot was over. There, she had a beauty dish with a modeling light set up. “That’s what he thought he was being lit by,” Greenberg says. “But that wasn’t firing.” What was firing was a strobe positioned below him, which cast the horror movie shadows across his face and on the wall right behind him. “He had no idea he was being lit from below,” Greenberg says. And his handlers didn’t seem to notice it either. “I guess they’re not very sophisticated,” she adds.
Here’s the picture she wanted The Atlantic to use (courtesy PDNPulse):
Fortunately, they didn’t. However, Greenberg, given her known political leanings, thinks it was wrong for The Atlantic to use her for this assignment:
I am a pretty hard core Democrat. Some of my artwork has been pretty anti-Bush, so maybe it was somewhat irresponsible for them [The Atlantic] to hire me.
Just how irresponsible? Well, if you go to Greenberg’s website, which she calls “The Manipulator,” and continue to hit your refresh icon, you’ll see some truly disturbing pictures of McCain, along with some truly disturbing captions.
These include one that says, “I Called My Wife A C*** In Front Of Reporters,” and another that was discussed in the PDNPulse piece:
[S]he goes on to explain that she’s thought about replacing McCain’s mouth with bloody shark teeth and displaying the image on a billboard with the message that the candidate is a bloodthirsty war monger.
Keep on hitting refresh at the front page of her website, and that picture will appear.
And this is the woman The Atlantic hired to take a picture of McCain for the cover of its October issue.
Isn’t that special?
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September 13th, 2008 at 4:53 pmJill Greenberg is a sociopath.
I don’t care why or how she became one she just is.
That’s my explanation why someone could do something so under-handed.
And as far as the Atlantic magazine goes, well really, why bother.
September 13th, 2008 at 5:02 pmWhat is that urban cowboy bullshit Hussein has on his head? He’s not fooling anyone. He wouldn’t know a steer from a bull if you fed him the testicles. Got some calf fries for ya’ big boy! This joke needs to go back to Chicago . . . or better yet, back to Kenya where he came from. He cares nothing for freedom. He only cares about his power and his image. This self-aggrandizing media slut needs to get beat in November and then again in four years so that we never hear from him in any public position ever again.
September 13th, 2008 at 5:07 pmActually, kudoes (to some degree) to Jill Greenberg …
The more I look at that picture the more I like it.
THAT was the man inside John McCain staring down his captors in the Hanoi Hilton for 6 years.
THAT’s the man I want staring down the jihadis, the UN, and the Congress …
Hey, Jill
THANKS!
Oh … and bite me.
September 13th, 2008 at 5:13 pmYea, that’s the pic I want on Amadickjewad’s bedroom wall. Go to sleepy little muzzie…..
September 13th, 2008 at 6:18 pmYeah, I thought the picture was great. This Jilldo meant it to make McCain evil, but I think he looks resolute–absolutely in command of his life, sure of what he believes, and determined to protect what he loves.
Yeah, I can see that would frighten the living poopy out of spineless, treasonous, souless and sneaky little tarts like Jill.
September 13th, 2008 at 9:35 pm