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Katherine Harris Charges Papers Altered Her Make-Up

Who doesn't remember Katherine Harris' outrageous makeup during the 2000 Bush v. Gore election campaign? Now, she's charging the newspapers "colorized" her photos to heighten it.

On Monday, on a conservative radio talk show, Harris, now a congresswoman from Longboat Key running for the U.S. Senate, hit back, blaming newspapers for the criticism and charging that some - without saying which - altered her photographs.

``I'm actually very sensitive about those things, and it's personally painful,'' Harris said when host Sean Hannity asked about her image problems from 2000. ``But they're outrageously false, No. 1, and No. 2, you know, whenever they made fun of my makeup, it was because the newspapers colorized my photograph,'' Harris said.

She didn't explain what she meant by ``colorized.'' Asked Tuesday to point to an altered photograph, Harris and her staff could not. Her response to the question, said spokesman Adam Goodman, was, ``I haven't worn blue eye shadow since the seventh grade when I was in the Girl Scouts.'' She didn't name a newspaper that showed blue eye shadow.

Okay, who can be the first one to find a photo of Ms. Harris wearing blue eyeshadow? Never mind, I just found one.

Original which shows even bluer here.

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    Re: Katherine Harris Charges Papers Altered Her Ma (none / 0) (#1)
    by Darryl Pearce on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:01:54 PM EST
    They were making fun of Kerry because he looked like Lurch. And now Ms Harris is complaining? As Stossel would say: "Give me a break!"

    I saw her many times on television, different channels, and she looked the same way. Like a clown.

    Tammy Faye had nothing on her!

    Re: Katherine Harris Charges Papers Altered Her Ma (none / 0) (#3)
    by ppjakajim on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:01:54 PM EST
    Okay, who can be the first one to find a photo of Ms. Harris wearing blue eyeshadow?
    Make that one that hasn't been colorized... ;-)

    It was bad enough when Ted Turner colorized the opening and closing to Wizard of Oz, but now to colorize Frau Blucher? How......silly.

    Re: Katherine Harris Charges Papers Altered Her Ma (none / 0) (#5)
    by MikeDitto on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:01:54 PM EST
    Is she saying that they painted in blue eye shadow or that they just got the color balance wrong? Because if you adjust the color balance to make the red and blue in the flag the correct colors (assumign the flag was made correctly), she looks even worse.

    Re: Katherine Harris Charges Papers Altered Her Ma (none / 0) (#6)
    by jarober on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:01:54 PM EST
    I rather suspect that if a conservative made fun of a Democratic woman, TL and the entire left would be up in arms. Is this the best you can do?

    i live in sarasota please someone provide a link or some verbiage on ANYTHING this woman has done for her constituents

    Re: Katherine Harris Charges Papers Altered Her Ma (none / 0) (#8)
    by Sailor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:01:54 PM EST
    Make that one that hasn't been colorized
    She complained about still fotos, TV showed the same. She also couldn't 'name names.' And funny how the official house fotos and movies show her with blue eye shadow ... which she hasn't worn since 7th grade.

    Re: Katherine Harris Charges Papers Altered Her Ma (none / 0) (#9)
    by Sailor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:01:54 PM EST
    troll sez "I rather suspect that if a conservative made fun of a Democratic woman" You mean like lamebaugh referring to Chelsea Clinton as the white house dog? rethugs constantly comment on looks, e.g. John Kerry's hair, Teresa Heinz Kerry's face, Hillary's everything!? Besides, KH is the one who said her photos were 'retouched' but couldn't specify any and the lie was revealed by her own HOUSE website.

    She actually looks like King Diamond (the Norwegian rock-opera performer).

    I hope he doesn't read this. I could be in serious s**t!

    Re: Katherine Harris Charges Papers Altered Her Ma (none / 0) (#11)
    by Che's Lounge on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:01:54 PM EST
    JR, Isn't your motto "Hilary is a lesbian!"? I'm no longer a Dem but people have been putting up with that neoc**t claim for 15 years.

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