UPDATED: Is Roy Blunt Faux Farming In Front Of A Green Screen?
Update #2: The Blunt campaign says that the ad was filmed on location at "a friend's family farm outside of Springfield " An updated version of the Beacon story now reads:
He is seen wearing a casual shirt, and standing in front of a white fence. A barn is in the background. A Blunt spokesman said this afternoon the candidate is not standing in front of a fake backdrop, as Democrats allege. Blunt 'was at a friend's family farm outside of Springfield in southwest Missouri,' the spokesman said."
Update #1: The Beacon's Jo Mannies writes that the ad "features him in flannel leaning on a farm fence." Any assertion that Blunt is "leaning on a farm fence" is plainly false. And that may be the first purple Oxford "flannel" I've ever seen.
A question from the Fired Up! Photoshop Department: Did Roy Blunt film the farm scene for his new ad in a teevee studio? Wherever Blunt is "farming" in his well-pressed shirt and khakis, the wind isn't blowing through the trees (or Roy's hair). The white rail fence is nice (and nicer than we had at my house growing up) -- but is it actually behind him?
The most convincing argument (I think) that the commercial features a live shot at a real farm is that it would be really dumb to fake it.
Or maybe the farm is real, but it's Roy who's fake.



