When You Can’t Trust Your Own Eyes

Actors and actresses are often approached for roles in movies or television that require more than just good acting skills.  Some rolls require difficult stunts or heroic feats the attractive star may not feel comfortable doing—or even capable of doing.  Enter the stunt double. 

The expensive actor or actress is spared any chance of harm, while the public is fooled.

In other roles, an actor or actress may be required to do a risqué scene that exposes parts of their bodies they are unwilling to reveal.  Enter the body double. 

These doubles, by their very nature, HAVE to be very convincing.  Our movie experience wouldn’t be the same, if they were obviously fake.  But how far could doubles go? Could we be fooled for any length of time? Enter the movie Dave.

Dave, starring Kevin Kline, was a 1993 tale about Dave Kovic (Kline), the owner of an employment agency who is hired to stand in for the President of The United States, Bill Mitchell (also Kline) at a Washington D.C. function while the Commander in Chief has a tryst with a staff member only to become his full-time replacement when Mitchell suffers a near-fatal stroke during that tryst. The Chief of Staff and the President have been conducting unsavory business which could be exposed if the President passes away and the VP assumes the office.  The Chief of Staff decides to implicate the VP and run for the office himself, but is later thwarted by Kline who, as the President, confesses publicly, exonerates the VP and blames the Chief of Staff.  He then fakes a stroke, and is “replaced” by the real President who later passes away.

Enter Joe Biden.  It seems the left is attempting a real life Dave-redo using body doubles for Joe Biden.  Keeping Old Joe out of the public eye as much as possible is essential to fooling a lot of people, but that isn’t always going to work—as cameras are everywhere and they capture everything. There are pictures and theories about the different Joe Bidens, and as a result, the White House has revealed Old Joe has had some work done…hair plugs definitely but maybe other work as well? 

Enter John Fetterman.  John has undergone some trauma after he arrived on the national political scene—a stroke which has left him somewhat incapacitated—which might account for the differing looks he sports.

In some photos you can see the signature ears…in others it appears his ears have been tucked back.  In some photos he is haggard looking and then in newer photos, he looks 10 years younger. And the mustache? If I were a suspicious person, I would point out it’s a good distraction.  You look at John and think something’s off but you quickly dismiss your concerns—oh it’s the mustache that’s making me think that. Disregard the tucked back ears, the softer, younger eye area and less pronounced Frankenstein-ish brow.   

And the signature tattoos that seemed to disappear in a recent picture? That’s a camera trick due to the rotation of his arms.  No one’s trying to fool us.

Enter Rand Paul…