The New Republican Weight Loss Program?

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 2:16pm

Are you too busy campaigning to lose those last few pounds? Then just Photoshop your
head onto a skinny persons body! Why have your own body slimmed down (You know, like Patti Lupone on the Gypsy poster) when you can just put your head on someone else’s body?

HOUSTON, Texas (AP) -- A mailer from a congressional candidate's campaign contains a photo of his head attached to an image of a different body that makes him look thinner.

The photo is presented as a true image of Dean Hrbacek, a Republican former mayor of Sugar Land, Texas. In reality, it is a computerized composite of Hrbacek's face and someone else's slimmer figure, in suit and tie, from neck to knee.


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[roquat]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 2:20pm

That looks disconcertingly like Bill Irwin...

[misschung]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 2:45pm

When I first looked at that checklist, I saw the words "sugar" and "lower" and thought it was actually about weight loss.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 3:33pm

I'm thinking, "Man, if he can't be honest about WHO he is, how could anyone trust him as a politician?"