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.<\/p>\n
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. […]<\/p>\n
Harris, a Republican, was asked Monday by nationally syndicated radio host Sean Hannity whether that image bothered her.<\/p>\n
“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.”<\/p>\n
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.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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.<\/p>\n
This is obviously an unwise move for a Senate candidate that’s struggling anyway — it’s unlikely voters will be persuaded to respect Harris’ bold stand against non-existent colorizing — but it’s also foolish to pick a fight with the media like this. Reporters and editors, especially when they haven’t done anything, don’t usually appreciate being accused of violating professional ethics without proof. Candidates don’t always have to endear themselves to journalists, but accusing outlets of conspiracy like this is bound to be counterproductive.<\/p>\n
Considering it’s Harris, I’m delighted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}