Senator gets upset over ad showing him with 5 fingers

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At first I thought it was an Onion article, but once you read it, you realize it wasn’t.

Montana Senator, who lost 3 fingers in an accident, shown in Republican ad with 5 fingers.

Republican Committee Member 1: “Hey, lets show how cozy that liberal senator is with the hated Barack Obama!”

RCM2: “We’ll show them hugging and patting each other on the back, that’ll get the closet homophobes on our side too!”

RCM1: “As if they ever left!”

laughter

RCM2: “Ok ok, but what do we do about Tester’s left hand. People might think he’s a war hero or something”

RMC1: “Why don’t we just draw some fingers on him?”

RCM2: “Nobody will catch that!”

high fives

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Well, not really.

Surf’s not up for that big kahuna.

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“Our research tells us that voters like fingers…”

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You have got to be kidding.

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I love this quote so. hard.

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So where’s the original image?

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Actually seems to be legit:

From a 2010 Blog:
http://rightmontana.blogspot.com/2010/12/two-years-of-obamatester-team.html

probably an honest mistake

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How do you figure? That link shows a picture of Tester and Obama that looks very obviously Photoshopped. It’s a fake-Tester hand on Obama’s back in that picture, not some other person.

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I pretty much love that whole movie for the random quotes. I’m just waiting for Tester to snarl, “I’ve played this stinking state like a bat from hell!”

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That’s not the hand in question. It’s his LEFT hand that is missing fingers.

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Left hand, the low hand, not the one on Obama’s back. There is something to Tester’s left, mostly occluded by Tester’s body, but visible behind his neck and mid-back. Likely this is another dude who is extending his left hand at about Obama’s navel.

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No, it’s Tester’s *left *hand that only has two fingers. He’s got his right hand on Obama’s back - or actually, I think, in the air, mid-back-slap, which is (part of) why it looks so weird. Between their stomachs, though, you can see the left hand of the guy directly behind Tester - he appears to be clapping. (You can just make out a bit of his back and head just behind Tester’s back and head.) If that were Tester’s hand, it would look almost like he’s going in for a crotch-grab on Obama, so I can see why they kept it in. But I suppose it’s plausible it’s a mistake.

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Navel-grab, Crotch-grab, Tomato, Tomahto.

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Ah, I was focused on the right hand. Yeah, carelessness makes more sense as an explanation for that than deliberate malice.

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I dunno. This is the Republican party we’re talking about, the same one who thinks making up racist caricatures of Obama is ok. When Republicans are concerned, never attribute to carelessness when maliciousness is an option.

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And once again, Poe’s Law rears its ugly heads.

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Every image on the internet looks very obviously photoshopped - you can tell from the pixels, apparently.

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That, and all the shops you have seen in your time.

Anyway, this is a strange little argument and I can’t see it having a huge effect on how the race actually goes.