DMF:
Richard Nixon once told reporters gathered for a news conference in 1973, the age of television news was shaking the confidence of the American people. “I have never heard or seen such outrageous, vicious, distorted reporting.”
At a time when honest American’s distrust in journalistic institutions is swelling, technology that further muddies the ability to discern what’s real is rapidly advancing. Convincing Photoshop-esque techniques for video have arrived, and the result is simultaneously scary yet remarkable. In a informational age transformed by the web, video is a gripping format. In the chaos of 24/7 real-time news there’s an advantage to being able to see something with your own eyes.
Or, there used to be……..
Computer scientists can now make realistic lip-synched videos, ostensibly putting anyone’s words into another person’s mouth. MORE
Imagine how long a dead or disabled president could remain in power if the video, for example, discussed current events, putting a sort of date stamp on it. Orwell’s digging this.
I never paid any attention to what Bluegums McMuslim said. His surrogates were like the smell of death. I pulled the TV plug 20 plus years ago.
There are thousands of years of literature to digest. Tens of quality articles almost every day. Radio and music out the wazoo. Different trees sing their own unique song in the wind even.
Video has always been entertainment only except in those rare breaking live stories.
Trust no one. Waste no time on the irrelevant.
Every speech he ever made was him parroting something somebody wrote for him.
The empty suit in the White House.
Some good comedy potential there. We could make videos of (D)irtbag leaders explaining common sense issues like TANSTAFL,
why voter fraud needs to be ended, why people have a right to defend themselves – and thus make them come out and disclaim the common sense of their “dummies”.
This might even get past the leftist built-in common sense screening. They are sheep who get their thoughts from the (D)umbest, sourest jerks they can find – if they hear common sense from simalcrums of their leading (D)egenerates, they will
be terribly confused.
Clint Eastwood’s empty chair discussion was 100% on point.
We’ve already been sold the Birth Certificate of a President being made to say something he wasn’t. Now I guess they can add some lost home movies of Barack Sr. conveniently filling in the gaps and solving Jr. mysteries.
In the case of Obama, people were putting more than just words in his mouth.
Probably how they kept those videos of bin laden going long after he had been killed, until 0bama “killed” him.
How hard is it to lip sync something like “I, uh, me, ah”…
The guys at Bad Lip Reading do it much better…