On Friday I noted that Governor Larry Rhoden’s new campaign website graphically underwhelms by, among other things, not featuring his cowboy identity in its rather bland leading graphic:
Team Rhoden must be reading Dakota Free Press, at least superficially, because I open Rhoden’s website this morning and find a new lead graphic:
To the good, Larry’s image consultants pressed Larry’s suit and plunked that hat on his head.
To the bad, they managed to make Rhoden look smaller. Plus, the banner photo still doesn’t show the real Larry out on the real open range. The image cut-and-paste lines are even more pronounced in this new image than in the original banner pic, emphasizing the sloppy laziness of Rhoden’s graphics team and, by extension, his campaign and perhaps his gubernatoriate.
Really, graphics team? Are you telling me you couldn’t take time to head out to Union Center with Larry on the weekend and get some action shots of Larry on his four-wheeler, Larry fixing fence, Larry and Sandy strolling lovingly across a pasture? You couldn’t even pull some old footage from Rhoden’s 2014 U.S. Senate campaign showing him in matching hat, scarf, and Carharrts?
Real sunshine streaming down below that brown brim, manly hand on the trailer gate, trailer, pickup, and real live beef—now that’s a picture of the real Larry ready to go to town!