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The media conspiracy to make [FL Rep] Katherine Harris look bad
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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem Aug 04, 2005 01:10pm |
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| News Date | Thursday, August 4, 2005 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Posted 9:19 am | Printer Friendly
I realize Rep. Katherine Harris (R-Fla.) is in a tough spot. Since announcing that she's giving up her House seat to run for the Senate, she's been encouraged by top GOP officials to drop out of the race, polls have shown her trailing Sen. Bill Nelson (D), and fundraising isn't going nearly as well as she expected.
But if Harris is looking to establish broader credibility and boost her stature statewide, this isn't the way to do it.
"Congresswoman Katherine Harris, who is running for a U.S. Senate seat next year, has again accused some newspapers of doctoring photos to distort her makeup as a way to poke fun at her.
In an interview on a conservative radio talk show Monday, Harris said some newspapers — she didn't say which — altered photos during the 2000 presidential election recount when she was Florida secretary of state. […]
Harris, a Republican, was asked Monday by nationally syndicated radio host Sean Hannity whether that image bothered her.
"I'm actually very sensitive about those things, and it's personally painful," she said. "But they're outrageously false. … Whenever they made fun of my makeup, it was because the newspapers colorized my photograph."
She has made similar allegations in newspaper articles since the recount and in January told The Associated Press, "The jokes about my appearance — it's the computer-enhanced photos."
In other words, Harris sees a media conspiracy in which news outlets plotted to embarrass her. Which news outlets? She wouldn't say. Proof to substantiate her claims? She wouldn't say. |
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