Can someone explain this image to me.

[tridim]

Caption: A worker shines mirrors next to delegate seats on the convention floor.

Is this what I think it is? Actual smoke and mirrors at the RNC?

Other scary RNC pics here: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/republican_race/galleries/sunday_preparations_for_the_rnc/sunday_preparations_for_the_rnc.html
Credits: Somodevilla/Getty
Published: 08/31/2008 21:37:30

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Well that is the mirror part. The smoke part starts when the delegates arrive.

[mcctatas]

2. There won't be any smoke this year...

since Cheney won't be speaking, the gates of hell can remain closed :)

[BrklynLiberal]

10. :D

[merwin]

3. Mirrors are used to make the room look larger than it is.

Works pretty well, too... good mind trick.

[tridim]

7. Do they really think it's going to fool anyone?

It would really suck if one of them breaks. It's bad luck.

[avaistheone1]

17. or to make the crowd look larger than it is.

repukes are so pathetic and so desparate.

[Lucinda]

4. Now THAT's funny!

:thumbsup:

[LonelyLRLiberal]

5. We need to look carefully at the crowd for this.

Sure looks like they are trying to double the visual images of the audience.

[lob1]

6. This mirror thing could backfire on the Pubs, too.

It sounds like no one's going anymore. So instead of the mirrors making the audience look twice as large, it's going to make the seats look twice as empty.

[krispos42]

16. They can always put up drapes to cover the mirrors

It would be perfectly appropriate for the RNC to hire non-union illegal immigrant workers for $3 an hour to hang up dozens of massive drapes on Labor Day.

[seabeyond]

8. bah hahaha. i heard it was gonna be differnt than dems. more cozy and intimate

as in, cant fill up the seats

[MrScorpio]

9. Exactly, thanks for pointing this out

It's their trick bag

[Starry Messenger]

11. I thought vampires didn't reflect in mirrors.

MPK

[LonelyLRLiberal]

12. Check Palin out with her shirt: "I may be broke but I'm not flat busted"

Looks like she likes to flash those boobies - McCain won't be able to take the pressure.

[1corona4u]

13. They should have just rented a conference room at the Ramada Inn.

:-) Cheap bastards. But they will say they are the frugal ones, and look how the dem's spent a boatload of money on theirs....

[tridim]

14. More mirrors..

And another picture, just because.


Nun Betty McKenzie, 78, faces riot police after forcing her way past a fence into the secured area around the Xcel Center with other anti-war demonstrators led by Veterans for Peace.

[unblock]

15. hah! no american would clean mirrors, not even for $50/hour.

:sarcasm:

[lob1]

18. I sure won't clean mirrors for $50 an hour.

I'd have to quit my lettuce picking job. So forget it.

[Usrename]

19. This is some stone age technology.

They need to get up to speed on computer generated graphics.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

20. This is one way of making it appear McSame has a following. n/t

[faithfulcitizen]

21. LOL!