About that ‘slick and cocky’ Obama image…
NOTE FROM ROMENESKO: My original tweet about this post gave the impression that this was a New York Times screw-up, which it was not. This is a screen shot from a Joe Ricketts-funded SuperPAC’s storyboard for the ad and the “slick and cocky” line was not written by the Times.
A Romenesko reader writes:
Thought you might enjoy this frame grab from the NYT.com homepage at 2:09. As you can see, the label at top reads: “Footage of BO looking slick and cocky. EXISTING STOCK.”
I would love to know what this is — an indexing label, maybe? [UPDATE: The explanation is below] But if this is how the NYT categorizes its art and describes the president, well — they should be more careful about where it appears.
Image is gone now, but was online for at least 10 minutes.
UPDATE:
@romenesko No! See my comment on your post, that’s a screen grab from their Ending Spending PDF doc they published today.
— Adam Peck (@TP_Adam) May 17, 2012
The image isn’t the Times’, it’s from the report. The image and the “existing stock” tag are on p. 21. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/05/17/us/politics/17donate-document.html?ref=politics
He sure looked “slick and cocky” in the picture from his literary agent, where he was described as “born in Kenya”
You’d be smug too, if you had conned an entire county into voting for you. Damn this Interloper in Chief! Just open up the Whitehouse website PDF of his birf certifcutt. Instead of using Adobe reader, use Adobe Illustrator and have a good laugh at the layers that they didn’t even bother to hide. I think Malia did it. All they had to do was make a hard copy and scan it but they are such rank amateurs that they didn’t even do that.
Wait, what?
*Watches all the the racist,ignorant, right-wing radical readers from the Drudge Report run to this article like a bunch of cockroaches run to a pile of dog shlt*
Come at me, brah.
Trust me, racism has nothing to do with the country’s disgust with his incompetent, fascist, communist idealogy. Come November, he will finally grasp this fact.
Come November, I expect you commie right-wingers to leave our country. American, love it or LEAVE IT!
The Chicago Way thug life been good to ya? Lock n load..
Come November, I expect conservative patriots to lead our country. America… Love it and SAVE IT!!!
Wow, Jim… you certainly chummed up the birfoons and their fellow travelers with this one.
I understood right away it was part of the pamphlet they were quoting, but I’m not surprised others got confused.
(and someone needs a vocabulary review on what the words “fascist” and “communist” mean. Their applied use here is incorrect.)