Obomba warns you: DONT Photoshop this Pic!
- Thread starter lukep
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Obama drop-in aside, that looks pretty dangerous for the dudes holding the victim. Isn't there a risk the bullet could ricochet off her skeleton? China, y u no observe health & safety at mass killings?
If Obama's position on gun control is what you think he has screwed up most, you have not been paying attention.
Saying DONT to the American people is pretty much equal to
HURRY THE FUCK UP AND DO IT, SHARE IT, MAKE IT EPIC!!
Bitches love to be badazzes: I wouldn't even be surprised if the Pubs were the ones who published it.
Or... they knew this photo could be misused (like in, oh, I don't know... a pro gun ad for example) so legal had them put that on there.
I mean that would make sense to most rational adults, but you go with what makes ya feel good. I'm sure that's how birthers think too. In crazy tin foil world, Obama wrote that statement himself...
I mean sure if you want to manipulate the photo to point out the intrinsic contradictions that exist in the position of government/this admin you should go for it! My point was trying to use the statement which is clearly there for legal purposes as a harbinger of government overtake and not your same old every day "copyright 2013 don't photoshop this picture into your political ad in any shape or form" makes you look like a nutjob.
P.S.: this is hands down the best one.
Because that's obviously exactly what I was saying... Except I didn't say anything to even remotely indicate that I think that's what he "screwed up most" and you just made that up.
No way that was just one example of the "plenty" of things I was talking about.
Fair enough, and I agree that the photoshop warning is standard protocol and a non-issue.
It's on every single photo.
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Let's look at it from the eyes of a publicist. We already know Obama's marketing team are very, very good, and while he was campaigning made up a huge part of his team in comparison to McCain. They get him to speak [and look more] like a black preacher in a room full of black preachers. They get him to put on a southern drawl and have a visible wifebeater underneath his shirt, in a roomful of people from the South. They make sure he acts totally blazed in a video about his opinions on marijuana.
What's the point of this particular picture? Official White House photos have 2 uses, press and the internet. Both are PR plays.
Who does this play to? We have two options at first glance, anti-gun people, and pro gun people. However, an image of Obama shooting a gun is unlikely to appeal particularly to anti-gun people, mainly just to pro-gun people.
But we know that the majority of pro-gun people are anti-Obama altogether, and not just for the guns issue.
Let's say he wanted this to happen - right in the middle of a gun debate, you go and post a photo of yourself shooting a gun - why? Here's the options:
- He knew the story about him shooting a gun was going to leak, so had to beat them to it. Unlikely, this was on a military base, so fairly easy for his PR team to deal with.
- He wanted to garner support from the pro-gun crowd, or at least the small segment that is pro-shotgun, anti-rifle. Possible, but still unlikely - it's a small segment.
- You want a distraction. Maybe, what's it distracting from?
- You want to attempt to push the neutral people over to your side. Very possible, the "Obama shoots guns, and even he's for control" effect can be very strong.
- You want people to photoshop it. People laugh at the photos, but are pushed much closer to getting tired of the gun activists' points. You can only listen to someone's point for so long before it become boring and annoying. In addition, you get Obama on people's minds more. Very possible as well.
Whichever one it is (multiple?), I'd be very surprised if photoshopping wasn't part of the strategy. What better way to get people to see an image than have thousands and thousands of versions made and published everywhere? And what better way to get people to do it than to have a big notice under every image telling people not to?
All good points, to which I'm not opposed.
Soup to nuts, it's positive PR for some, negative for others. But PR is PR. His marketers are good, as you mentioned. They know people on the internet love to blow stuff out of proportion almost as much as they do in RL, especially if you say "Don't do that."
Regardless of what side anyone is on (even Obomba himself), PR jumps, gets people talking politics on a hot, debatable topic.
It gets fuckers on internet profitability forums talking guns and PR.
Well.....shit.
