Photoshop “Hillarity” with Clinton
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton frequently catches a bad rap for being cold, off-putting and generally unpleasant. Many news sources and pundits have opined that she just doesn’t have the people skills that her husband Bill possesses. Naturally, she’s been trying to fight this image but all the PR in the world can’t compete with the awesome power of the internet. Case in point:
As far as I know, this picture is real. But a picture like this just doesn’t sit around for long. Smelling blood in the water, the Goons over at the SomethingAwful forums went to town photoshopping this into oblivion. That thread has material that may not be safe for work.
Regardless of your feelings about the junior senator of New York, you have to admit her image problem isn’t going to go away anytime soon. These are a few of my favorites.
April 5th, 2007 at 11:42 pm
It’s interesting that images like these are circulating and becoming part of mainstream political discourse and established media news coverage. I’m actually writing a senior thesis at Bard College right now on the topic of “weird Internet user politics” and I’d really be interested in getting some feedback about these issues. If you’re interested, you can check out my research website: http://inewsproject.com Thanks! -Tanner
February 6th, 2008 at 11:40 am
What’s interesting is that none of the images try and show Hillary Clinton the way she really looks. She’ll be 61 this October.
What about an image removing the fake color from her hair, the hair-do, the makeup used to mask her real face, the jewelry used to highlight anything but her appearance.
She’s dishonest even about the way she looks too!
April 17th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
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