Clinton campaign making Obama "blacker"

post from Daily Kos on 05 March 2008 01:30:59 PM. © Daily Kos

Or maybe more Muslim? The sordid details are in this diary by Troutnut, but it can be distilled down to this:

As you can see, the campaign ad has darkened Obama's skin tone, while stretching the video horizontally to give Obama a wider nose.

Asked about this by Fox News, the Clinton campaign responded:

Despite the strong similarities between the ad on the DailyKos site and the original ad on Clinton’s Web site, Clinton spokesman Jay Carson said he spoke with the campaign’s chief ad maker, Mandy Grunwald, who said emphatically the ad on DailyKos "was not their ad."

"We don’t know what is up there, but it is not our ad," Carson said.

Yet as Troutnut notes, the ad is right here at Clinton's campaign website, so the Clinton campaign is clearly lying.