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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGeorgia GOP Senator's Campaign Claims 'Anti-Semitic' Ad Was Just A Graphic Design Gaffe
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Sen. David Perdues campaign says it was "an unintentional error" by graphic designers that resulted in distorting an ad that shows Jon Ossoff, who is Jewish, with a bigger nose.
A GOP senators reelection campaign team was accused of playing off anti-Semitic tropes with a digital attack ad involving a manipulated image of his 2020 opponent.
Sen. David Perdues (R-Ga.) campaign has now removed from Facebook the ad, below, that showed Democratic challenger Jon Ossoff, who is Jewish, with a bigger nose:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-senator-facebook-ad-jewish-opponent_n_5f1fd3dfc5b638cfec494990?io
sakabatou
(42,189 posts)bullimiami
(13,110 posts)NCDem47
(2,252 posts)Someone knew what they were doing. It was intentional. Everything else in photo is to scale.
Gosh, all these "mistakes" from Republicans in their political ads and social media posts.
Blue Owl
(50,536 posts)Photos don't alter themselves -- someone has to do it, and then another someone (or someones) likely approved it for release.
Nice try, fucko...
Merlot
(9,696 posts)Throwing Graphic Designers under the bus - how utterly republican!
CurtEastPoint
(18,672 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,498 posts)by: Aiden Pink
Forward.com
July 27, 2020
Link: https://forward.com/news/national/451581/jon-ossoff-jewish-nose-david-perdue-antisemitic/
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But the Ossoff image, which was adapted from a 2017 Reuters photo of him, was also changed by having his nose lengthened and widened, even as other parts of his face stayed the same size and proportions, three graphic design experts told the Forward.
KY........ .........
MagickMuffin
(15,972 posts)You ARE ultimately responsible for the content of your ads.
Shame on you and your graphic team.
keithbvadu2
(36,990 posts)A 'mistake'. What was the intended action that went awry?
riversedge
(70,382 posts)democrattotheend
(11,607 posts)Campaign vendors do stupid sh*t like this sometimes. I was once featured in an ad for Brett Schundler, a right wing Republican running for governor of New Jersey because an ad vendor he hired had the brilliant idea to photoshop a picture from a Howard Dean rally to make it look like a Schundler rally. I believe the distortion was probably designed to be anti-semitic, but I find it plausible that the ad vendor did it without authorization from the candidate.