{"id":124752,"date":"2022-04-08T07:48:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T11:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=124752"},"modified":"2022-04-08T08:04:07","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T12:04:07","slug":"josh-mandel-photoshop-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=124752","title":{"rendered":"Josh Mandel Photoshop Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Josh Mandel<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Josh Mandel is a candidate for the U.S. Senate.\u00a0 He served in the Marine Corps and served two tours of duty in Anbar Province, Iraq.\u00a0 After being called a racist for objecting to teaching Critical Race Theory in school, he claimed he fought beside Marines of every color, using photos to support his point.<\/p>\n

There is some controversy<\/a> about a photo that he used in his campaign, showing himself beside black Marines.\u00a0 The photo appears in this video<\/a> at the 10-second mark.\u00a0 The screen shot from the video is provided below.\u00a0 Some claim that the photo was Photoshopped to put Mandel’s head on the body of a black Marine. They point to the fact that the hands are darker in skin color.<\/p>\n

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Josh Mandel Photo Used in Campaign Video<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

The fact-checking site SNOPES concluded<\/a> that the allegations that the photo had Mandel’s pasted head on someone else’s body were false.\u00a0 Although the picture does show a difference between his face and his hands in the video, the reasoning is that the lighting in the photo was adjusted in order to have all faces and skin tones optimized to identify faces.<\/p>\n

Mandel came out with the original photo when the controversy broke.<\/p>\n

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Josh Mandel Photo – Claimed Original Photo<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

One of our ninjas pointed out that if you look at the campaign advertisement in which this photo appears, the hands of the black men are also darker than their faces in the same picture.<\/p>\n

Things are leaning in the direction that SNOPES made the right call, but you decide.<\/p>\n

Natalie Allison, a political reporter, pointed out on Twitter that the entire thing was plain silly saying – “The Mandel Iraq photo truthers on this platform are pushing a pretty strange theory. Is the argument that you think he didn\u2019t actually serve with Marines who were black? It really doesn\u2019t make a lot of sense.”<\/p>\n

Although Allison’s point of view gave me a chuckle, I think the actual controversy was that people were saying Mandel manipulated a photograph to make a stronger point in his narrative.<\/p>\n

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