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Black supporter on Corbett website was Photoshopped

Gov. Tom Corbett (R,Pa.) used Photoshop to splice a black woman 'supporter' into a picture on his campaign website, Buzzfeed says.

You're a Republican governor and you don't have a black woman handy to pose standing next to you for a picture on your campaign website?

Not a problem. Just Photoshop!

According to the website Buzzfeed, the black woman shown smiling up at Gov. Tom Corbett in the footer on his campaign site was borrowed from a stock photo array and grafted into the group shot. Corbett's campaign said that the entire tableau is a mix of pictures of real people and stock photos, blended together through the magic of Photoshop.

The very same Buzzfeed last month discovered that a lawyer-cum-actor from western Pennsylvania featured in a TV commercial for Democrat Tom Wolf had starred as "Mr. Cannibal" in a porn/horror film called Breeding Farm.

Maybe no "real" people want to be associated with political campaigns anymore.