Photoshop Tilt! ABCNews.com Suggests Contest Between Smiley Obama, Snarling McCain

October 27th, 2008 1:46 PM

Update: ABCNews.com has since changed out the McCain photo to show a grinning McCain.

Lee Boggs found that ABCNews.com augmented a generic horse-race campaign story by Mark Mooney on Monday morning with this slanted "photo illustration" -- or is it some sort of movie poster, with obvious Good Guy vs. Snidely Whiplash overtones? Or just JFK vs. Nixon? Mooney's article suggested Ohio was up for grabs between Good and Evil:

McCain started the week with good news in the Buckeye State, which was critical in President Bush's win over Sen. John Kerry in 2004 and Vice President Al Gore in 2000.

An Ohio Newspaper/University of Cincinnati poll indicates the Ohio race is a statistical dead heat, giving a 49-46 edge to Obama.

Could this agitprop art be more over the top -- on a "news" site?