When Not Being Means Being

Daniel Foster, professional NRO flying monkey, watches a new Russ Feingold ad and wonders if parts of it are "green screened." Leaving aside the obvious question of what difference it makes if Feingold was actually in front of his actually existing house or green screened and then projected on the front of his actually existing house, when Foster hears from the Feingold campaign that whole ad was actually shot in front of Feingold's house in Middleton.

His response?  Well, he'll

take [Feingold's campaign manager] at his word, and [he doesn't] want to get conspiratorial here, but it just looks to [him] like there is stuff going on — with the foreground-background split, with scale, with some matte lines around the senator — that make it look bizarre. Shouldn’t Feingold have the same diagonal shadow that hits the house behind him? Shouldn’t he be walking on more or less the same plane as the sloped driveway? The second, tight shot of Feingold doesn’t look particularly fake, just the initial as the initial wide one.

He's not going to get all conspiratorial except to the extent that he thinks that there is a conspiracy afoot to pretend that Feingold was standing in front of his house.  He requests the aid of a professional. And, no, not one from the mental health industry but rather one who can prove that the conspiracy actually exists.  The fact that he is being conspiratorial is further proof that he is not being conspiratorial; much like the evidence for the civil war inside the Republican Party between the crazy people and the "moderates" is not either evidence of a civil war.