Thursday, December 10, 2009 5:36 PM
API's Rainbow Coalition!
A recent American Petroleum Institute advertisement appears to have been doctored to include an African American man and an Asian man in the group pictured.
The advertisement discusses American jobs associated with the oil and natural gas industry. Among the group are two faces that don't quite fit the bodies. The black fellow on the left has been caught white-handed. The man on the right clearly suffers from Caucasian-neck disease.
Here's the original stock photo. (You'll notice it too has been photoshopped, doubling the faces in question.)
"API, they're against hybrid cars, but for creating hybrid images," said David Di Martino, communications director for the Clean Energy Works Campaign, which discovered the photo manipulation.
API has been contacted for comment and we will update this story as events transpire.

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