{"id":14744,"date":"2016-05-20T13:12:46","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T13:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14744"},"modified":"2016-05-20T13:14:31","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T13:14:31","slug":"look-for-a-load-of-unflattering-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14744","title":{"rendered":"Look for a load of unflattering photos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Political campaigns of all stripes employ a universal tactic when seeking to put the opposition in a negative frame of reference.<\/p>\n

They find the most unflattering pictures of the “other guy” and plaster them on TV ads or billboards. You know what I’m talking about.<\/p>\n

I get the feeling the presidential campaign of 2016 is going to feature a trove of negative images.<\/p>\n

I’ll now get to the point: Donald J. Trump has taken us to a new level of disgusting references to people’s physical appearance.<\/p>\n

He’s referred to women as “fat pigs.” He once chided former fellow Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina by asking, “Would anyone vote for that face?” Oh, and then he stood on a campaign podium and mocked a reporter who has a severe physical disability.<\/p>\n

The Trump campaign already is looking for pictures of Hillary Rodham Clinton that it will plaster on campaign literature and\/or TV ads. Rest assured, too, that the Clinton team is doing precisely the same thing as it prepares its onslaught against Trump.<\/p>\n

I generally dislike referencing public figures’ physical appearance, but since Trump already has opened that door …<\/p>\n

It seems quite certain to me that this individual’s rather, um, expressive<\/em> face is going to provide his political foes with plenty of grist to use as they campaign against him.<\/p>\n

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The world is full of such pictures of every politician who’s ever entered the public arena.<\/p>\n

However, hold on this year for a seriously rough ride through what figures to be the meanest campaign in anyone’s memory.<\/p>\n

The pictures are going to tell a major part of the story.<\/p>\n

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Political campaigns of all stripes employ a universal tactic when seeking to put the opposition in a negative frame of reference. They find the most unflattering pictures of the “other guy” and plaster them on TV ads or billboards. You know what I’m talking about. I get the feeling the presidential campaign of 2016 is … Continue reading Look for a load of unflattering photos<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[1424,2139],"class_list":["post-14744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-hillary-clinton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14744"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14748,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14744\/revisions\/14748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}