Well, this is awkward.
The Jeb Bush super PAC Right to Rise sent a mailer to more than 85,000 Iowa voters, but something is a bit off in the photo of the group’s favorite 2016 presidential nominee.
IOWA: Check your mailboxes today. Mail piece hitting more than 86k households. #conservativeresultsmatter pic.twitter.com/94Qb2hZy5X
— R2R USA (@r2rusa) August 20, 2015The group also tweeted the photo as a teaser for the mailer. Take a close look at Bush in the second photo of their tweet and you’ll see that his left hand appears several shades darker than the rest of his skin.
Liberal news blog ThinkProgress accused the group of superimposing the GOP nominee’s head onto the body of a black man, while TIME pointed out the background in the picture is actually a stock photo of Cedar Rapids. The originally photo appears to be seen here.
Photoshop 101: don't forget to check the skin tone of HANDS when adding a new head to a body. http://t.co/H4WM5xz5Lf pic.twitter.com/yM4MlLj1tG
— Mike Altmann (@altmannia) August 22, 2015Perhaps it is Bush’s entire body pasted onto the stock photo and the mailer’s creator just got a little carried away with Photoshop’s Burn tool, which is used to darken parts of an image. Whatever the case, it appears to be a pretty big Photoshop fail on someone’s part.
Donald Trump piled on the criticism, tweeting that the former Florida governor “just can’t get it right!”
Jeb Bush has a photoshopped photo for an ad which gives him a black left hand and much different looking body. Jeb just can't get it right!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 22, 2015NBC News has reached out to Right to Rise to shed a little light on Bush’s uneven skin tone and will update if we hear back.
This story originally appeared on NBCNews.com
Jillian Sederholm