The hot topic in politics today is photographer Jill Greenberg’s “misrepresentation” of her hired run-in with John McCain. Set to shoot McCain for the cover of The Atlantic, Greenberg later admits that she deliberately tried to manipulate the photos to show the Arizona Senator and Republican in a bad light. Being a self-admitted die-hard Democrat, she states that it was “somewhat irresponsible” of The Atlantic to hire her given her previous work, according to an expose in PDN. Basically, she blames the publication for her own wrong-doings.

Meanwhile, The Atlantic has apologized for what Greenberg has done. Having turned in photos that weren’t very flattering, she then used the remaining pics to photoshop them and slap those bad boys on her website. Turning McCain into an evil monster-looking psycho, even the most liberal thinker has to see that this is downright mean and scary.

While The Atlantic says she will not get paid and a lawsuit is possibly in the air, Greenberg obviously stands by her poor decision. The photos remain on manipulator.com.

Greenberg stated that after the initial shoot, she asked McCain to “please come over here” for one more set-up before the 15-minute session was over. Following her orders, he went to a place where she had a beauty dish with a modeling light positioned.

“That’s what he thought he was being lit by,” Greenberg says. “But that wasn’t firing.”

What was firing was a strobe positioned below him, which cast the horror movie shadows across his face and on the wall right behind him. “He had no idea he was being lit from below,” Greenberg says.

And his entourage didn’t seem to notice it either.

“I guess they’re not very sophisticated,” adds Greenberg.

The sad truth is that what Greenberg doesn’t realize is that by doing this, she makes not only herself look bad but the political party she stands for, thus, hurting a cause she somehow thinks she is trying to support.

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