Michelle Malkin is full of crap again

[LuckyTheDog]

Anybody here ever use Photoshop?

The original picture of Condi Rice is kind of blurry. I can see how, in resizing the photo, one would want to fix it. Photoshop has a "sharpen" feature. Use that on the Rice photo and the picture sharpens up -- but the whites of the eyes get brighter. If someone was in a hurry and didn't adjust for that, the picture could end up looking a tad odd.

But to suggest that there was an attempt to "demonize" Condi Rice is absurd. There is not one shred of evidence to support it.

http://michellemalkin.com/archives/003780.htm

[BloodyWilliam]

1. Bingo. More lazy than sinister.

Someone was haphazard in finishing a photo. Occam's freaking razor. Geez, even we're not that paranoid. ...usually.

[Loonman]

2. Malkin has some deeply seated emotional problems

In addition to being crazy-8 bonkers.

[NoAmericanTaliban]

3. Lets spread rumors about her being in a porn film...

so she will have another melt-down. Even better a lesbian movie :)

[sui generis]

4. I have a question for Michelle Malkin

I personally find the blurry jaundice-eyed picture to be the less attractive of the pair.

this one is definitely worse:


EXACTLY WHAT in your own words is it about the picture that you don't like? Please phrase your answer without using any simile, metaphor, or hollywood creepshow analogies.

You know, if people whiten their teeth, what's so wrong about whitening their eyes? I would do it but mine are unnaturally white already, except when I have bolts of demonic energy shooting out of them in traffic or too much fun at happy hour.

:shrug:

[Rosco T.]

5. don't you mean "full of crap.... still" ? n/m

[AlCzervik]

6. When is she not full of crap?

[bryant69]

7. Malkin seriously messed up

That said, if the same thing happened with a Democratic Politician some of us would say more or less the same thing.

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[SlipperySlope]

8. We would indeed..

I use photoshop quite a bit. I can't think of any "accidental" way to produce these results. Neither the auto-levelling or the sharpening tools are going to make the eyes pop out like that.

My humble opinion, someone amateurishly tweaked the eyes. I don't know what their intent was, but the results look quite unnatural.

[Loonman]

9. She's coming off like a bitter paranoiac

Like her buddy, Man-Hands Coulter.

[DS1]

10. No she's not.

That photo was manipulated, badly, by USA Today.

Pick your battles more carefully.

[LuckyTheDog]

18. It was badly sharpened

But there is not a SHRED of evidence to suggest her claim that USA Today wanted to make Rice look "demonic."

[DS1]

20. I doubt it was even sharpened

Regardless, the eye-work was specific, and amateurish - and I did see it on USA Today's website.

[BloodyWilliam]

24. It's a terrible filter job.

I find it more plausible that some intern fucked up in Photoshop and no one really noticed or cared about the pic, rather than some sinister "Let's make Condi look evil!" plot by USA Today.

[LuckyTheDog]

27. Absolutely

Some underling just messed up a minor detail. No plot there.

[harlinchi]

11. And it's not as thought the MSM would alter, say, an expression...

...of enthusiasm by a presidential candidate into a scream of insanity or anything! (Howard Dean please pick up the white courtesy phone...)

[Zomby Woof]

12. Again?

She was never NOT full of crap. She is a psychotic fuckbag, and always has been.

[regnaD kciN]

13. Sun rises in east and sets in west again

Pope is still Catholic.

[onenote]

14. but it doesn't look like that on USA Today's website

Here's a link to the picture as it appears on the USA Today website. It doesn't look like the "demon" version shown on Malkin's site. It looks more like the original. Now, there's no way I can go back in time to find out if USA Today ran the other version and then switched after getting complaints or whether Malkin is just full of crap. Its a 50-50 toss up.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-10-19-rice-congress_x.htm

onenote

[DS1]

17. It did

I checked earlier - they've probably been informed about this.

[comsymp]

15. Condi finally outed as a Goa'uld

Wondered how long she could keep it secret.

[Fescue4u]

19. hahaha

beat me to it.

[bluedawg12]

16. Allways! Her crap filledness is not episodic. n/t

[Richard Steele]

21. It's true: the picture is slightly altered by sharpening:

[Beelzebud]

22. When was she not full of crap?

[NightOwwl]

23. She's irrelevant....

as are Billy O'Lielly and all the other hate-spouting talking assholes.

They are drowning in their own bile.

[progressivebydesign]

25. "again"? You mean.. STILL n/t

[LuckyTheDog]

28. I stand corrected (nt)

[SlipperySlope]

26. Photo retracted

Editor's note: The photo of Condoleezza Rice that originally
accompanied this story was altered in a manner that did not meet USA
TODAY's editorial standards. The photo has been replaced by a properly
adjusted copy. Photos published online are routinely cropped for size
and adjusted for brightness and sharpness to optimize their appearance.
In this case, after sharpening the photo for clarity, the editor
brightened a portion of Rice's face, giving her eyes an unnatural
appearance. This resulted in a distortion of the original not in
keeping with our editorial standards.