Katherine Harris

The First Annual Katherine Harris Colorized Photo Contest

A few weeks ago, voter-disenfranchisement expert Katherine Harris accused the press of “colorizing” her photos. Many readers of The Tattered Coat found these charges baseless. Not wanting Ms. Harris to sound like a crackpot conspiracy theorist, they set to work on some colorized photos in an effort to prove that her statements had some merit.

The submissions have been tallied by our team of curators, and it’s time to let readers have their say. You can vote only once, so please make your selection carefully. I promise you that no votes will be scrubbed in this election.

As British novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton once said, “There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.”

Thanks to everyone who contributed. Voting begins below the fold.

Links to author names lead, in most cases, to larger versions of the photos, though a few lead to author homepages.

To vote for a photo, select the button directly above it, and click “Vote” at the bottom of the post.

Katherine Harris Must Be Farked

Voter disenfranchisement expert Katherine Harris complained today that newspapers have artificially “colorized” photographs of her, thus damaging her public image:

On Monday, on a conservative radio talk show, Harris, now a congresswoman from Longboat Key running for the U.S. Senate, hit back, blaming newspapers for the criticism and charging that some - without saying which - altered her photographs.

“I’m actually very sensitive about those things, and it’s personally painful,'’ Harris said when host Sean Hannity asked about her image problems from 2000.

“But they’re outrageously false, No. 1, and No. 2, you know, whenever they made fun of my makeup, it was because the newspapers colorized my photograph,'’ Harris said.

(Florida Metro, via Tommywonk)

Sounds like an invitation to me.

So I’m proud to announce The First Annual Katherine Harris Colorized Photo Contest. Submit your photoshopped efforts in the comments, or by email, and I’ll highlight the best ones in a subsequent post.

Because if anyone in the world deserves a painful blow to her vanity, it’s Katherine Harris.

Let the games begin.

Update: Here is the contest