THE FACES (AND ONE NOTABLE BACK OF THE HEAD) OF CAMPAIGN SEASON
Bill White
Next thing. I wrote recently about answering a casting call for extras to portray hurricane refugees in a video for the Bill White gubernatorial campaign. I showed up and played along just to get an idea of what the experience would be like.
 You can see the video at tinyurl.com/28y8sa5. I'm in the second snippet  about 25 seconds in. My participation ends at about the 26-second mark. Good luck spotting me.
 Taken as a whole  here's the message: White's a weird-looking dude who is very  very short (at least he looks so in the photo of him with the 7-foot-6-inch Yao Ming) and who at least once attended an event with some Borat-looking folks and who tends to make babies cry (unexplained photo of a smiling White holding a crying baby).
 A current Perry attack ad twice uses a video clip in which White looks very shifty-eyed. And there's another ad that ends with a black-and-white mugshot of White  in which he looks like a guy trying to smile through his booking photo or a patient asking if he should be concerned about the oozing from his left eye. Way to take the high road  governor.
 Locally  the best example of this genre so far is an ad (tinyurl.com/26qx8rp) for Rep. Patrick Rose  D-San Marcos  showing GOP opponent Jason Isaac -- who looks downright presentable in photos on his campaign website -- in slow-mo  grainy action doctored to make it look like it might have been taken while Isaac was fleeing after robbing a 7-Eleven.
Next thing. I wrote recently about answering a casting call for extras to portray hurricane refugees in [TGT]. I showed up and played along just to get an idea of what the experience would be like.
 You can see [TGT] at tinyurl.com/28y8sa5. I'm in the second snippet  about 25 seconds in. My participation ends at about the 26-second mark. Good luck spotting me.
 Taken as a whole  here's the message: [TGT]'s a weird-looking dude who is very  very short (at least [TGT] looks so in the photo of [TGT] with the 7-foot-6-inch Yao Ming) and who at least once attended an event with some Borat-looking folks and who tends to make babies cry (unexplained photo of a smiling White holding a crying baby).
 A current Perry attack ad twice uses a video clip in which White looks very shifty-eyed. And there's another ad that ends with a black-and-white mugshot of White  in which he looks like a guy trying to smile through his booking photo or a patient asking if he should be concerned about the oozing from his left eye. Way to take the high road  governor.
 Locally  the best example of this genre so far is an ad (tinyurl.com/26qx8rp) for Rep. Patrick Rose  D-San Marcos  showing GOP opponent Jason Isaac -- who looks downright presentable in photos on his campaign website -- in slow-mo  grainy action doctored to make [TGT] look like [TGT] might have been taken while Isaac was fleeing after robbing a 7-Eleven.