Romney and Ryan Campaign in Ohio (Photo of man wearing racist t-shirt; DU, DKOS screen name?)

Google ^ | Friday, October 12, 2012 | Photo by Jamie Sabau

[presently no screen name]

You pissed you don’t own this http://www.antipalinshirts.com/?

[presently no screen name]

LOL!!

[presently no screen name]

I laughed at the ‘fake grass-roots movement’ - while they are the fake ones. Too dumb and dishonest to know it. Useful idiots for the liberal agenda.

[Bon mots]

If he were real, the left wing media would have been all over him to speak on camera. He was snuck in for a photo.

[snowtigger]

I went to that site and now I need a shower. An awful lot of effort to spend on someone so irrelevant. She still scares the HE!! out of them, doesn’t she?

[MamaTexan]

My guess is this a set-up by a liberal activist or union goon and the photographer.

My guess is it's another fake-but-accurate.

Out of curiosity, I looked at a close up of the photo.

Despite the fact every hair and wrinkle on the shirt is crystal clear, the lettering on the shirt and sticker are blurred. I even went to the website to see it it was originally looked like, yet couldn't find one like it.

Also, look at the "E" in 'the' and the one in 'house'. you can see them both equally despite the fact the crease is deeper at the top

If this were real, you wouldn't be able to see part of the e in the lower word, and less that half of the E in the top word.

Besides, does anyone really think someone would get away with prancing around in that shirt at a Romney rally and no one else would call them on it?

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BTW - the t shirt website isn't a liberal site, it just sells the stuff.

They have some clever anti-Obama and pro Romney stuff, too.

[SueRae]

I couldn’t find the t-shirt at that link. Google it and that pic comes up at every Lefty news site.

[Praxeologue]

www.zazzle.com/antipalin/gifts?cg=196681417743621968

[zencycler]

This thread was a great resource for countering those who may want to link this guy to Romney and Romney supporters. Here's my summary of counterpoints, some which I got from this thread.

1) As described by the source, the picture was taken before the event began, so we don't know if anyone objected to him wearing this or if he was later allowed access into a restricted area wearing that shirt.

2) If man in a NAMBLA T-shirt showed up at an LGBT event, liberals would yell foul if someone tried to link that community to pedophilia based on this. How is this any different?

3) The only manufacturer of shirts like this which I could find came from a site marketing shirts to those who hate Palin, which seem to be encouraging liberals to buy these shirts in order to link Palin and her supporters to racism.

4) Google - Romney Lancaster - and then click "Videos": You'll see Romney, Ryan, and almost everyone in the crowd in coats. It was cold that day. So why is this guy there in a T-shirt?

5) There were cameras everywhere that day, yet this was the one and only picture this guy! I don't see how that's possible - unless he removed his coat, posed for the picture, put his coat back on and left.

6) It has been documented that radical anti-right activists and groups exist whose sole purpose is to infiltrate right-wing events and to dress, carry signs, or act in a way that will discredit the right. All evidence seems to cleary point to that being the case here:
* Picture taken before the event began
* No other pictures or videos exist
* Cold day, everyone else in coats and hats
* Man's face is not shown
* Man is not interviewed


Finally, if this was NOT a set up, then the photographer would have done much more. He would have followed the guy who was their before the campaign began to see what happened once campaign organizers arrived. He would have gotten out a video camera, or taken many photographs in sequence, to allege that the crowd was not reacting to this shirt.

And others, including news media, would have also taken and posted pictures or videos by now.

But no, he took the one and only shot, which makes itclear that this was a set up - this was a quick-stand-over-there in-and-out operation.

[TheOldLady]

Ah, there’s my sweet, bloodthirsty Mr. Civilizations! Where you been?

And you’re right, of course. These dirty tactics cannot go without dire consequences, or they will never stop.

[Perdogg]

fake

This picture is a complete fake: fotoforensics.com/analysis.php?i…— Todd Kincannon (@ToddKincannon) October 14, 2012

[visualops]

Look at the original image at Getty images.
It’s a real t-shirt. I’d bet they just stuck a R&R sticker at the top though.
It’s so obvious the guy is a plant. Otherwise his face would be shown, heck they probably would have tried to interview him.

[visualops]

It’s also totally weird that this photographer takes a bunch of wide crowd shots, a bunch of R&R, and then a couple of sidewalk shots and then this total non sequitur lone guy in the crowd t-shirt shot. And, looking at the crowd shots, seems just about everyone is in a jacket or sweater/fall clothing. I saw what may have been a t-shirt but you couldn’t tell if it was long sleeved. This guy showed the shirt for the cameras, and then probably covered it up after.
He’s got either an earring on or a mole behind his right ear.