To be filed under: “What were they thinking?”
After Donald Trump flew into Alabama on his own Boeing 757, the Jeb Bush Super Pac thought it would be a great idea to fly a rickety little plane over the Trump rally, with a banner reading: “Trump 4 higher taxes. Jeb 4 Prez”
And was promptly mocked on Twitter:
@costareports @murphymike sad little !Jeb plane….
— RON COULTER (@RONCOULTER) August 21, 2015
MT @costareports A pro-Jeb plane taunts with its own flyby…paid for by Right to Rise super PAC. pic.twitter.com/bbSRxEpICr
— k8 (@rolling_2) August 21, 2015
And, this:
Via Breitbart:
A Super PAC backing former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush for president with more than $100 million is officially embarrassing itself.
Just one day after the Bush Super PAC Right to Rise USA flew a tiny plane with a banner attached to the end of it over 2016 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump’s Mobile, Alabama rally, the geniuses backing yet another Bush for president appear to have photoshopped a black man’s hand onto the former Florida governor.
“A flyer put out by the Jeb Bush-supporting SuperPAC Right to Rise USA got a little overzealous promoting the candidate’s diverse appeal this week,” New York Magazine’s Chas Danner wrote. “The mailer, which R2RUSA sent to 86,000 Iowans, was attempting to answer the essential question, ‘Why Jeb?’ and featured the smiling candidate standing with his hands on his hips — except one of the hands definitely wasn’t his, or white. And if you look at his other (right) hand, you can see that it was digitally colored white as well, as the awkward supposed shadows are the same color as the black hand.”
….Bush Super PAC spokesman Paul Lindsay explained that the picture was photoshopped and that the color was accidentally darkened….
And, more Twitter mocking:
@r2rusa so is Jeb actually a black guy pretending to be white wishing he'd be Hispanic? #lefthand
— LaGrange Poly (@smithnya) August 23, 2015
— Zen (@crypto_zen) August 23, 2015
@GardenerMiss @Rex4711 @r2rusa really odd way to attract black supporters in my opinion
— alex (@a113468) August 22, 2015
Depending on the size of the picture and with the J blocking part of left hand, it looks a little like a cell phone clipped to his belt, though that doesn’t explain the original photoshopper making the error. His right hand, Gah! Looks like The Beast with 5 Fingers and who wouldn’t want Peter Lorre as President. (Laszlo Loewenstein left Germany after Nazis came to power in 1933.)
The UK leftist newspaper The Guardian has a funny column on this; http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/22/jeb-bush-super-pac-photo-iowa
And a Guardian humor column on Jeb’s logo; http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/shortcuts/2015/jun/15/jeb-bush-exclamation-mark-campaign-slogan-broadway-musical
To me it looks like the original picture had bad lighting and they needed to brighten it and missed that hand.
I think the weirder part about that picture are his eyes. They just look very strange.
Why, Jeb?
LOL!
For those of us old enough to remember “In Living Color” and Fireman Bill…. Let me tell ya something, Mister!