Are Media Outlets Using A Deliberately Lightened Picture of Zimmerman To Make Him Look 'Whiter'?

Draw and Strike ^ | Thursday, March 29, 2012 | staff

[Nachum]

Here's the by-now famous pic of George Zimmerman that went viral on the internet the past 2 weeks as the story of the TrayVon Martin shooting became a national news story: 

But do a Google image search for 'George Zimmerman and this is what comes up:

http://tinyurl.com/79dj95c

Do you...uh....NOTICE anything there?  The difference in skin tone between the various pictures?  

Let's call up one of the lightened versions and put them side by side: 

[Nachum]

A blast from the past

[ClearCase_guy]

What up ma crackuh?

[doc1019]

No, say it aint so ... you are implying that the MSM are duplicitous? /s

[Dallas59]

[SharpRightTurn]

Maybe they’re using the same artist who lightened up Barry’s pictures for his 2008 run?

[bigheadfred]

if everyone in this story was a little bit whiter this would have never happened

[USS Johnston]

The media has been messin’ with photos ever since Trayvon wearing a blue bonnet in a bassinet photo made the rounds.

[luvbach1]

More red than a lighter color.

[1_Rain_Drop]

wouldn’t the orange suit be a dead give away to the fading of Mr Zimmerman’s skin tone?

[rfp1234]

Does a Catholic bear pray in the woods?

[Dilbert San Diego]

Of course they are doing this. Anybody surprised the liberal media would do this, to play up the racial angle?

And remember how the media has used the picture of the 13 year old Trayvon, rather than the pictures taken shortly before his death, when he appeared to be a thug.

They wanted to create that impression that a racist white man killed an unarmed harmless teenage boy.

[bgill]

They not only lighted up the usurper but gave him pecs and a package and even gave him different color (red to black or the reverse?) swim shorts.

[Bobalu]

If his name had been Jose Rodriguez instead of George Zimmerman then there would have been no indictment in the first place.

They thought he was Jewish.

They looked at the name and conjured up an image such as this.

If his name had been Jose Rodriguez this is what they'd have imagined him to look like.

Liberals are such racists.

[JoeProBono]

[VeniVidiVici]

The real Trayvon (just what the hell is a 'Trayvon' anyhow?)

[rlmorel]

Nah. They would never do anything like that.

[piytar]

Yes.

[svcw]

Yes, for the same reason they use a pic of Martin when he was 12

[donmeaker]

It depends on how hard they are willing to work. Certainly photoshop can pick out sections of a photo and lighten them. Looks like they didn’t use that approach with the two main photos.

Orange isn’t a nice color for much of anyone.

[vladimir998]

Catholic bears pray everywhere they go - but do they kneel when the pray in the woods?