This shit ought to be illegal...
Republican Mazi Pilip's newest TV ad is replete with fabricated imagery that invents moments that never happened, even going so far as to have Joe Biden photobomb a press conference he didn't attend.
As Business Insider's Bryan Metzger documents, one altered photo shows former Rep. Tom Suozzi speaking at an event outside the Capitol hosted by the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus in December of 2020 promoting a COVID relief bill.
The original image depicts then-Rep. John Katko and Rep. Abigail Spanberger wearing masks, but those have been removed or concealed. Former Rep. Elaine Luria, meanwhile, has been interposed between Suozzi and Katko, while Biden—who was not president at the time—has been dropped in behind Suozzi's left shoulder.
Another photo purports to show Suozzi shaking hands with Biden in the Oval Office. However, as Inside Elections' Jacob Rubashkin notes, it's actually taken from a picture of the two at a United Federation of Teachers event in New York City celebrating Teacher Union Day in 2019. Because that gathering was held after a walk to raise money to fight breast cancer, many of the attendees, including Suozzi and Biden, wore pink ribbons. Those have been photoshopped out of Pilip's ad.
In addition, Metzger points out that the Oval Office that the two politicians were dropped into was Donald Trump's, not Joe Biden's, based on a comparison of how the decor shifted when the presidency changed hands. Pilip does not appear to have commented on the new ad.
Republican Mazi Pilip's newest TV ad is replete with fabricated imagery that invents moments that never happened, even going so far as to have Joe Biden photobomb a press conference he didn't attend.
As Business Insider's Bryan Metzger documents, one altered photo shows former Rep. Tom Suozzi speaking at an event outside the Capitol hosted by the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus in December of 2020 promoting a COVID relief bill.
The original image depicts then-Rep. John Katko and Rep. Abigail Spanberger wearing masks, but those have been removed or concealed. Former Rep. Elaine Luria, meanwhile, has been interposed between Suozzi and Katko, while Biden—who was not president at the time—has been dropped in behind Suozzi's left shoulder.
Another photo purports to show Suozzi shaking hands with Biden in the Oval Office. However, as Inside Elections' Jacob Rubashkin notes, it's actually taken from a picture of the two at a United Federation of Teachers event in New York City celebrating Teacher Union Day in 2019. Because that gathering was held after a walk to raise money to fight breast cancer, many of the attendees, including Suozzi and Biden, wore pink ribbons. Those have been photoshopped out of Pilip's ad.
In addition, Metzger points out that the Oval Office that the two politicians were dropped into was Donald Trump's, not Joe Biden's, based on a comparison of how the decor shifted when the presidency changed hands. Pilip does not appear to have commented on the new ad.
Republicans nominate Orthodox Jewish Israeli from Ethiopia to replace George Santos, would be 1st Black Jew in Congress
A ethiopian jew republican.. :smh: The layers of cooning can’t get any deeper
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