I need somebody to check out this screen capture from CNN.com and tell me what they see. (source) Am I having visual hallucinations that shift colors? Is my memory faulty?
Maybe I haven't slept, and maybe I'm wearing a new glasses, and maybe I've had too much coffee or there's some weird chemical imbalance messing with my color perception, but...
I could have sworn we already dealt with changing Sen. Obama's skin color once in this primary season and I'd bet dollars to Dunkin' Donuts that's what I'm seeing.
This is on CNN.com's front page as I write this. (Source is AP Photos, we note.)
Compare to a variety of photos in the order I selected them off a images.google.com search for "barack obama". (read: basically randomly)
This one.
This one.
This one.
This one.
This one.
This one.
You know what? That's enough. I can tell the difference.
Is the cameraman using a freaking green filter to photograph Sen. Obama? Are we back to the making Obama "blacker" again?
Seriously. WTF?
Don't... Don't you dare tell me...
At a luncheon for the editors hosted by the Associated Press, AP Chairman Dean Singleton quizzed Obama about whether he would send more troops to Afghanistan, where "Obama bin Laden is still at large?"
"I think that was Osama bin Laden," the candidate answered.
"If I did that, I'm so sorry!" Singleton said.
"This," Obama told the editors, is "part of the exercise that I've been going through over the last 15 months." (source)