Mitt in Brownface

[AlpsStranger]

Romney on Univision.

 

[Leonel]

This is the best election ever! It's like he's the Kerry of 2004 except instead of being swift boated he's doing it all to himself!

 

[AlpsStranger]

This is the best election ever! It's like he's the Kerry of 2004 except instead of being swift boated he's doing it all to himself!

I know, it's amazing!

I can't wait for the tax returns to leak in late October.

 

[emzie]

Mitt Trump.

 

[Borachio]

There's a special sun that can turn people orange. There must be.

 

[AlpsStranger]

There's a special sun that can turn people orange. There must be.

Is it the sun around Kolob?

 

[GenMarshall]

Who let Mitt sleep in the tanning beds again?

 

[Borachio]

Kolob. hoho. I had to look that up. No. Because I've seen any number of well known people turned the same orange. Unless, of course, they are all cryptomormons. Hmmm.

 

[Lone Wolf]

Maybe it's just the lighting + one day under the sun?
Maybe Mitt's professional tanner was a bit careless?
Let's not jump to conclusions, people.

 

[AlpsStranger]

Nah, I'm jumping to this conclusion. Sorry.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

It could be a spray on tan; he did have an audition to be part of the Jersey Shore cast after the interview.

 

[Formaldehyde]

Romney is even darker than his interviewers. But they forgot to dye his hands. Check out the video:

Mitt Romney Accused Of 'Dyeing His Face Brown' For Univision Interview (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

But this doesn't appear to be the only time Romney has changed colors based on his surroundings:

"The many shades of Mitt"

Spoiler :

May 2nd:

May 29th:

June 18th:

July 18th:

July 24th:

August 2nd:

RNC:

 

[Askthepizzaguy]

There is a sun that can turn people orange. It's the sun in the alternate reality that Republicans live in. Where the invisible fascist Obama lives.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Wow, you're right Formaldehyde.

Mitt's campaign is dead if people are seriously getting caught up on his skin tone. He's one endless gaffe machine.

 

[GoodGame]

Romney on Univision.

LOL


I want to see Rmoney doing the Macarena

 

[warpus]

He looks like an Oompa Loompa aka 5% of girls at my work

 

[peter grimes]

Romney on Univision.

To be fair, it's pretty hard to tell exactly how much mitt's color has been changed in just these two screen caps. Stage makeup is designed to interact with the specific color temperature of the lighting instruments, and the cameras - hd, digital, or video - will be white balanced to that environment. If a different camera then takes a shot of the scene with those corrections the skin tone will naturally look unnatural.

That said, I don't think that's the only explanation of what we're seeing here. But it's important to keep the above in mind. It's the same effect as when a broadcaster isolates one person's mic channel and we hear a bizarro scream (think Howard Dean) . In the context it's not bizarro at all.


Edit: check the white of his collar in each photo. They're different, so you can't assume his skin is as different as our brains interpret it to be.

EDIT:
Hours later, I now see there are massive gaps in my post.

 

[shadowplay]

Mitt Trump.

Mitt Dukakis.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Edit: check the white of his collar in each photo. They're different, so you can't assume his skin is as different as our brains interpret it to be.

Nice catch brohammad. But can't you just let us all hate on Romney without interference from the fact police?

 

[Antilogic]

It could be a spray on tan; he did have an audition to be part of the Jersey Shore cast after the interview.

I thought he was hanging out too much with John Boehner. Or getting really sloppy with his morning glass of Tang.