This was almost certainly not planned, and the timing could prove a hindrance to Mitt’s Festival of Lies tonight. No matter the motive, it underscores how far gone these shitheads really are, and it is despicable:
TPM — I this is what happens late in the tight presidential race. Ronna Romney is the ex-sister-in-law of Mitt Romney. She’s apparently remained close to the Romney family. She has a minor role in the Romney campaign in Florida and has recently appeared at campaign events in Michigan with her daughter.
Earlier this afternoon she posted these grotesque images of the mangled body of the late Ambassador Chris Stevens with the words “Obama killed him” surrounded by dripping blood.
So anxious was Madame Romney to slime the President, that she included a photo of the dead Libyan dictator Moamar Qadaffi in with the US snuff pics. The photos have been taken down from Facebook, or so I hear. But TPM has a screen shot — it’s not pretty, don’t go there unless you’re ready to see dead disfigured American bodies.
Wow.
Just wow.
And the Republican cuts to the amount spent on embassy security had nothing to do with it.
Just had a look at the Ronna Romney facebook page – they’ve also got an image of Einstein with a crude anti-Obama “quote” :
D’oh. Blockquote fail sorry.
Quoted “joke” / really stupid false Einstein quote ends at the word ‘result’, remainder of text mine.
They literally used a corpse as a prop in their political campaign. gross.
@ ^ skeptifem :
Gross definitely but, technically spekaing, *ahem*, metaphorically not literally I think.
It was a photographic montage not the actual physical body(~ies!) itself. (Themselves.)
Does the nationality of the disfigured dead bodies really make any difference?
Yes, it looks to me as though most Europeans and Americans (and I suppose that is true for others as well, I merely don’t know) are very good at perceiving victims from remote places, especially “brown” people from third world countries, as less than human and thus their images are less emotionally stirring. I guess it comes with the ingrained tribalism that always dominates human nature unless we fight it actively.