Mitt Romney Accused Of 'Dying His Face Brown' For Univision Interview (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
Source: DU!!!/Huffington Post
Mitt Romney appeared on Univision Wednesday alongside Jorge Ramos and Maria Elena Salinas, but something was a little peculiar about his appearance -- his skin tone. Looking back at the hundreds of photos logging his every moment on the campaign trail, the Republican presidential nominee is usually not so shockingly tan.
While his orangey-brown appearance on Univision could have been the result of bad lighting or a makeup mishap, left-wing blog the Democratic Underground concluded that Romney "dyed his face brown for his Univision interview."
The claim is not completely out of the ballpark. After all, as Gawker points out, Romney did say "it would be helpful to be Latino," in a video secretly recorded at a campaign fundraiser earlier this year.
Appearing at a campaign fundraiser in Atlanta, Georgia, before his Univision interview, Romney showed a bit more color, but nowhere near the amount of bronze as seen on stage at the 6:30 p.m. ET filming. So while some messy foundation may have contributed to his darker skin tone, that likely was not the only cause.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/20/mitt-romney-dyed-face-brown-fake-tan-univision_n_1900707.html
Huffpo links to Tx4obama's DU Thread http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251101160 nice job!
HERVEPA
(6,107 posts)Raster
(20,998 posts)I believe our little message board is noticed a bit more than some of us think. I have seen commentary and memes explored on DU and then hear and see the same on the left-wing media days later.
Booster
(10,021 posts)reading DU everyday.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Not as many as we would like though.
The Washington Villagers tend to start the day with a cup of coffee over Drudge. It's only lately they have been going to the Huffington Post but that's only because they wanna do Arianna and hear her moan with an accent...
Booster
(10,021 posts)goclark
(30,404 posts)Cosmocat
(14,572 posts)I think it is pretty obviously, frankly.
It jumped out to me when I saw the video.
I was like, you have to be kidding me ...
This is one of those things the media won't touch. But, I do think Hispanics will take note and it won't be something they appreciate. Sort of like his calling undocumented people illegal aliens.
Just a buffoon of the highest order.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)His color is so unnatural it looks like his makeup artist came from a kindergarten class.
sakabatou
(42,174 posts)torotoro
(96 posts)How desperate one must be? How embarrassing!
gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)it would be hliarious if he wasn't so desparate!!!!
jsr
(7,712 posts)Last edited Thu Sep 20, 2012, 05:23 PM - Edit history (1)
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)It would be interesting to compare his color when he boarded the plane.
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)you link is one when he is on Univision, and one not.
Personaly, I hope he Univision guys had some fun.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)Here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=101485
p.s. DU has turned off the 'view all' on that thread so the previous link I posted doesn't automatically go to comment #170 anymore.
But the new link above in this comment should go directly there to the plane photo.
DJ13
(23,671 posts)mikeytherat
(6,829 posts)Should have spent a little more time on the hands, methinks.
mikey_the_rat
wordpix
(18,652 posts)robinlynne
(15,481 posts)lob1
(3,820 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)This is certainly misstated:
"left-wing blog the Democratic Underground concluded that Romney "dyed his face brown for his Univision interview" "
DU is a forum with opinions! Jeez
secondwind
(16,903 posts)are not THAT stupid.
mountain grammy
(26,648 posts)this wonderful "left wing blog."
Gregorian
(23,867 posts)I'll bet if you put him next to members of the fed he'd turn green.
GreenTea
(5,154 posts)as he is - all republican assholes believe this shit - they believe they can lie and fool anyone with their complete bullshit and here is republican Romney looking so fucking foolish ignorant and laughable with his "dark' skin - What a complete asshole is Romney! - only the tea party racist uniformed uneducated slobs are that gullible and stupid!
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Do you think Romney altered his skin tone intentionally?
Yes! He's obviously trying to appeal to Latino voters.
53.13%
He's definitely tanner, but I don't think it was intentional.
27.34%
No, that claim is outrageous!
19.53%
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)I am pretty amazed that this went as viral as it did
trailmonkee
(2,681 posts)Ain't it fun
Cha
(297,655 posts)created himself..from posing as a policeman, a fireman, a barber from hell, who knows what else.. it's easy to guess that since Mitt has no substance he was going for The Look(that'll Fool 'em).
Romney's been Insulting the Intelligence of the American People for a Long Time.
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h/t http://theobamadiary.com/
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)In the HuffPo POLITICS section here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/20/mitt-romney-orange-bronzer-univision-face_n_1900387.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003&ir=Politics
p.s. The link up in the DU OP is the one in the Latino section.
greiner3
(5,214 posts)He had better have used permanent ink!
progressivebydesign
(19,458 posts)not a bad spray tan, or golf escapade. His make up people tried to make him look BROWN. How fucking pathetic.
eyewall
(674 posts)eyewall
(674 posts)reminding them of the botox scandal they fabricated with John Kerry?
This brown-face at least really happened and is politically relevant as an obvious case of pandering to a block of voters. It's humiliating in so many ways (and yes I realize that it hasn't been proven what the actual cause of the extra brown is but it's just so in character for Romney to do something like this that it deserves attention).
NYC Liberal
(20,136 posts)so that he'd be darker but you wouldn't really consciously notice it. And they fucked it up.
eyewall
(674 posts)Response to trailmonkee (Original post)
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Aldo Leopold
(685 posts)my rain-soaked piñata comment was.
bushisanidiot
(8,064 posts)And she said twitter had great fun with it today. Way to go DU!
wordpix
(18,652 posts)????
Makes perfect sense when you're a complete liar and fraud.