McCain's green screen lie
September 05, 2008 9:37 AM
ABC News' George Stephanopoulos Reports: When John McCain began his acceptance speech last night, the staging was decidedly less grand than the sweeping stadium vista that the Obama campaign constructed at Invesco Field in Denver last week. And purposefully so. It was more intimate, with the candidate standing closer to his supporters, with a giant screen behind him.
A giant green screen. Or so it appeared to TV viewers for the first several minutes of the speech.
McCain has had trouble with green screens before, when internet mischief-makers used a green backdrop at one of his worst-received speeches of the year in June to superimpose other images behind -- making for some popular YouTube spoof videos.
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ABC News' George Stephanopoulos Reports: When John McCain began his acceptance speech last night, the staging was decidedly less grand than the sweeping stadium vista that the Obama campaign constructed at Invesco Field in Denver last week. And purposefully so. It was more intimate, with the candidate standing closer to his supporters, with a giant screen behind him.
A giant green screen. Or so it appeared to TV viewers for the first several minutes of the speech.
McCain has had trouble with green screens before, when internet mischief-makers used a green backdrop at one of his worst-received speeches of the year in June to superimpose other images behind -- making for some popular YouTube spoof videos.
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