Joe Lieberman Procures Sunset to Ride Off Into

[TomInTib]

from dcdl.com

August 30, 2006
Joe Lieberman Procures Sunset to Ride Off Into
by Keith

I’m trying to avoid posting too often about the Connecticut Senate race, but sometimes Lieberman’s buffoonery (along with my interest in a state where I lived for a while) makes it impossible to resist. The Lieberman campaign has released a new ad that’s being ridiculed across the web (including some YouTube comments that were deleted).

The strangest thing about the ad, aside from its lack of content, is that it features a sunset — not be the best image for a politician who’s trying to convince people that he’s not in the twilight of his Senate career. When asked about the image, Dan Gerstein, Lieberman’s communications director, true to form, lies through his teeth:

In an interview, Gerstein took issue with the idea that the sun is setting. “It’s actually a sunrise,” Gerstein said. “It’s very much a sunrise.”

Judge for yourself. Here are two images, the first from 10 seconds into the ad, the second from 23 seconds:

If the Lieberman campaign thinks the sun gets lower when it’s rising, it’s no wonder their campaign is in trouble.

For further confirmation that the image is a sunset, and far from Connecticut, commenter JeffW at MyDD discovered that the ad uses segments of two stock video clips from Getty Images. The first clip is described as “Wide shot sun setting over ocean / birds walking along water’s edge / Santa Barbara”, while the second is “Wide shot sun setting behind clouds with ocean in foreground / Santa Barbara, California”. So give it up, Dan — it’s a sunset.

http://dcdl.org/2006/08/30/lieberman-sunset-ad

[babylonsister]

1. Too funny!

:rofl:

"If the Lieberman campaign thinks the sun gets lower when it’s rising, it’s no wonder their campaign is in trouble."

[rainy]

2. you can't tell from these pics if it is a sunrise or set...

the horizon line is always straight on the sea. These pictures have clouds in them and it is impossible to know where the horizon line is in both. If you judge from where the reflection starts on the water the sun has indeed gotten higher in the sky in the second picture. Of course if those are not clouds but are part of the landscape then disregard my point all together.

[TomInTib]

3. Read the captions under the pics.

The idiots pulled the images from Getty and they were plainly labeled 'sunset'.

[badgerpup]

4. A minor point...

Last I looked...Santa Barbara was on the West coast..California in fact.
My old stompin' grounds. :toast:
Question...
Would a rising sun be on the ocean's western horizon?
Geography and cartography were never my strong subjects but still...

:rofl:

[TomInTib]

5. Man, that is funny.

I get to see that old sun go down on the Coast every night.

We are in Tiburon.

[ellenfl]

6. regardless, the sun in the second picture LOOKS lower than the first. eom

[Sparkly]

7. That's a sunrise -- just going downward... Kind of like Joementum in NH.

(He just didn't know which way the momentum was going...)

It's very fitting, and very funny.