Posted on 10/14/2012 6:38:07 PM PDT by kristinn
A photograph taken by Getty Images on Friday of a man wearing a racist t-shirt at a Mitt Romney rally in Ohio has caused controversy over Getty’s unsubstantiated claim the man is a supporter of the Republican presidential nominee.
The photo showed a tight shot of the back of a bald-headed white man wearing a black t-shirt emblazoned with all-capitalized white lettering that said, “Put the white back in the White House.” Above the lettering at the nape of the man’s neck a Romney-Ryan sticker was neatly applied to the t-shirt.
Getty captioned the photo:
LANCASTER, OH - OCTOBER 12: A supporter of Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Republican vice presidential candidate U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) waits for a campaign event to begin on October 12, 2012 in Lancaster, Ohio. Ryan debated U.S. Vice President Joe Biden the evening before and Romney is scheduled to debate U.S. President Barack Obama for the second time on October 16. (Photo by Jamie Sabau/Getty Images)
A Getty representative speaking not for attribution told Breitbart the photographer did not speak with the man wearing the t-shirt and that he did not know with certainty the man was a Romney supporter. The representative did not know whether Getty would run a correction for the caption.
While liberals online pointed to the photograph as proof of racism among Romney supporters, conservatives wondered whether the man was a plant trying to make Romney look bad.
When Tea Party street activism was at its height, a movement called Crash the Tea Party was formed to infiltrate Tea Party rallies with liberal activists who would create bad optics for the Tea Party by acting out for the media liberal stereotypes of conservatives.
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Is he ACORN, SEIU, AFSCME or NEA?
Given the continuing actions of the pResident and his wife, I’ve come to call it the White Hut. . .
Yep. I'd noticed that said the same thing yesterday, too.
I guess the libs think us God-fearing Bible-clinin' gun totin' conservatives are too stupid to work a computer.
We be so stooooooopid. :)
As was suggested in another thread about this, any presstitute who had actually found this circumstance, not staged it, would have been all over getting a shot of the guy’s face so the racist could be hounded into hiding by left wing activists. Since there is no shot of his face, the stooge wearing the shirt is most certainly a Democrat plant.
Shouldn’t these shirts be all over the web if someone is selling them? Only the one photo of the plant is there. Like the trolls with the deliberately misspelled signs at rallies who FACE THE CAMERA AT THE BACK OF THE ROOM instead of the person they came to see speak.
Seems like a total plant/scam.
He has a Romney/Ryan lapel sticker above the White House lettering.
He couldn’t put the sticker there himself. Why would he? Seems like total bullcr#p.
Total desperation = dirty tricks.
I’ve seen people at Tea Party events called out for wearing racist shirts or carrying signs as they were likely plants.
Here's his profile:
Jamie Sabau:Phone number listed at link.
Address: ...Columbus, OH 43210, US
Phone:
Jamie Sabau's Message: I was given an opportunity to cover the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs this year for the first time. Loads of fun, great hockey and met some talented, hard-working people. Made my share of mistakes, but certainly learned from them. I'm ready for next year's playoffs already.
Last Update: Today
Member Since: 6.20.2003 (Senior Member)
http://www.sportsshooter.com/members.html?id=1427
Any bets on the “Racist” t-shirt wearer being a Daily Kos poster, or an MSNBC-watching whackjob?
Remember the Daily Kos Dumb**s with the assault rifle at some of the Tea Party Rallies?
It’s not in the html metadata, but the date “1/1/12” IS in the “ITPC image” field when you open the image in Photoshop, then go to “File” then “File Info.” I think, though, that this is info the photographer must type in, and it could be that it was a default he never fixed. I think the plant theory is most likely.
Trust me. I have done in the same places as this photographer. Believe me when I say that he would have neither the time or inclination to photoshop anything before transmitting it to Getty.
And the meta data is cleared out after its transmitted and replaced with whatever Getty puts in their for their archiving system.
And finally, I recoded about 800 pictures with a January 2012 date just yesterday...the date 10122012 can be mistyped to 01122012 very easily.
Has it occurred to anyone that 0.01% of people attending the rally might be bigots? And is anyone shocked by that? Good Lord, Snoop Dog call Mitt a “White Nigger” the other day. Should we believe that there are no black racists?
Stop being shocked and outraged.
Not directed at you, but at the Pravda Press: Assuming it’s true, so the f*** what??? There are a&&holes in every gathering of people..... Like, ooooo I dunno, NEW BLACK PANTHERS AT OBAMA RALLYS????!??
That was my first thought also...
Expose it as it occurs. Collect incidents of it and the exposes thereof, and start a web site. Tell talk radio people about the web site.
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