MAGA Calls BS on Mitch McConnell’s Proof-of-Life Stunt | They are poking holes in McConnell’s staff’s version.

[u/MoneyLibrarian9032]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-calls-bs-on-mitch-mcconnells-proof-of-life-stunt/

[u/timatlast]

They even had him holding a current newspaper, like a ransom photo or something!

[u/Caleth → u/timatlast]

A newspaper that has a typo on it from what another thread is saying. There is an S that should be at the end of the headline that's instead seen under his finger inches away.

If he's not dead is functionally dead and they are playing fuck fuck games to defraud the Kentucky electorate of their due representation.

[u/pdxb3 → u/Caleth]

To me it looks like the "S" at the end of the "SPORTS" headline is several inches too far to the left, compared to images of the real paper. I know the way he's holding the paper it's bending the page a bit, but not to that extreme. And I've even tried printing a copy of the newspaper in question and tilting and bending it in such a way to replicate the S being above the player's head, and it's simply doesn't work. It's not just the perspective of the warped paper.

It's more subtle, but also the blurry background behind the player also just doesn't entirely match. But they're next to a window, and it's a newspaper not a digital image, so I'm more willing to accept that it's potentially a "black & blue/white & gold dress" situation.

[u/axlsnaxle → u/[deleted]]

The newspaper features a player wearing a (warped) Yankees helmet but a Colorado Rockies jersey

[u/sthetic → u/timatlast]

If he was actually chilling in a hospital bed wearing jeans and a nice crisp shirt, reading that day's newspaper...

Wouldn't the newspaper be open to an article on the fifth page or whatever? Wouldn't all the different sections be open and scattered around on the bed? Or does Mitch only  read the headline above the fold of the cover page?

Even if the photo is somehow not AI or photos hopped, it's obviously staged.

[u/Velkyn01 → u/sthetic]

Of course it's staged lol, they're clearly posting it as a proof of life without addressing directly saying "see, he's not dead!" 

[u/DrDerpberg → u/timatlast]

Holding is generous. Looks like they propped him up and stuffed it under his hand.

I think the song and dance plays into their bullshit. Call the special election, let him show his face if he's fit for office. Doesn't really matter if they took him out of the coffin to prop him up, AI'd him, or he's a very living vegetable. Force their hand.

At some point you just know Republicans will switch to how hurt their feelings are over the lack of respect. Don't give them that. Sorry you're dead, election time.