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That’s about as bad as the forged CBS memos.

The purpose of government shouldn’t be to do good, but simply to refrain from doing evil.

Nothing new.

Wasn’t it William Randalf Hearst who said:

“Give me the pictures and I will give you the war.”

And that was our Civil War if I’m not mistaken.

Free: Hearst was 2 years old when our civil war ended.  Honestly, I hate how often you jump into a thread and then the whole focus of that thread becomes oriented on correcting you and your wild statements and errors.

Saying that this is “nothing new” is just plain dumb.  The media tells us that they are objective.  They tell us that they bring us the truth.  When things like this picture and the CBS memos crop up the show these journalists as blatant liars.

That is nothing to be nonchalant about.

The purpose of government shouldn’t be to do good, but simply to refrain from doing evil.

Sorry, Spanish American War.

What difference does it make?

I said if “I’m not mistaken.”

Rob,
Where can I buy the following dvd’s
Relentless- the movie, and Obsession-What the war on terror is all about.

Point is it’s all Yellow.

“Give me Liberty or give me death”
Patrick Henry

Ralph,

Obsession can be purchased here.

As for Relentless, I haven’t heard of that one.

Free,

Sorry, Spanish American War.

What difference does it make?

I said if “I’m not mistaken.”

I don’t know about you, but I think being accurate is important rather than shooting your mouth off about things you clearly don’t understand.  Sort of like our discussion about Wal-Mart the other day.

Point is it’s all Yellow.

That doesn’t mean we should get nonchalant about it.

The purpose of government shouldn’t be to do good, but simply to refrain from doing evil.

http://www.honestreporting.com/relentless/new_version/

Every story in the various newspapers I browse is written from a particular point of view. Very similar from paper to paper.  The Houston Chronicle is very much like the Washington Post which is very much like the New York Times, L.A. Times, etc.  Reuters uses the same tone, AND perhaps is even more anti-American.  I know this is not news to anyone. BUT the constant drumbeat of negativity regarding ANYTHING that makes the US great and unique is almost as bad as the outright lies… 

Well put, Zsa Zsa.

The purpose of government shouldn’t be to do good, but simply to refrain from doing evil.

Oh my, golly gee whilikers, cheese and crackers…that is just not right

But I know that no honest gop would ever use photoshopping in to smear oh let’s say…a presidential nominee.

Nor would a RNC put out photoshopped misinformation using our own military men for their partisan shenanigans.

I am sure that a gop senator would never, I MEAN EVER use doctored images of the burning WTC’s to his political advantage…no…never

I hold Booosh in the highest regard and know for a fact that he has never photoshopped a few soldiers to catapult the propaganda. What ever it takes to win…but never a lie…he would always use the original picture

I keep saying this, but it needs repeating: always presume that the Pres is lying to you, serving some agenda other than the truth. Only when something is proven conclusively true from many sources should you even think about believing it.

Yeah it’s bad, no matter who is doing it.

Bob,

Well, as unethical as all those are, they were not passed off as “unbiased journalism.”

Hey RBB,

At least the RNC does not claim to be an objective news source, now do they.

(ya see how I cleverly photoshopped the word press?)

Realityboob is presented with overwhelming evidence to suggest media bias and what does he do…

ATTACK THE REPUBLICANS!!!

So typical.

Honestly, what a clown you are Mr. Boob.

The purpose of government shouldn’t be to do good, but simply to refrain from doing evil.

Merely an unconscious defensive reaction on his part, Rob.

He probably didn’t even realize he did it.

Rube is presented with overwhelming evidence to prove that his gop lies to the public and what does he do…

ATTACKS THE MESSENGER

Quite expected.

Face it Rube. You are being duped.

Read my last sentence, Rube.

Rube is presented with overwhelming evidence to prove that his gop lies to the public and what does he do…

ATTACKS THE MESSENGER

Quite expected.

Face it Rube. You are being duped.

Read my last sentence, Rube.

Rube, this post isn’t about the GOP.  This post is about some pretty blatant media bias.  You, tellingly, are trying to change the subject.

Pathetic.

The purpose of government shouldn’t be to do good, but simply to refrain from doing evil.

Bob,

You’ve present blatantly partisan examples of how Republicans manipulate images…

How does that relate to the media doing it and passing off as unbias factual reporting?

Oh, I’m sorry.
Maybe I should have asked where to buy DVD’s or something.

Oh, I’m sorry.
Maybe I should have asked where to buy DVD’s or something.

Bob,

I’m giving you an opprotunity to make your case and your dodging the issue.

rbb: If by “Pres”, you are referring to Clinton, you are absolutely right.  Otherwise, you are full of poop, as usual.

If govt control of the economy were the way to go, the Soviet Union would be the richest, most powerful nation in the history of the world.

Thanks to Obama, America remains the only country where it is illegal to drill our own oil!

Two interesting things about rbb’s defensive replies to this post.  One is that, even though the photoshopping is not laid on the Dems or lefties directly, rbb replies by trying to make equivalence with Republicans, thus revealing his guilty knowledge of the left lying about terrorist activity.  Very good.  The other is that it reveals his constant harping on his own partisan approach to everything.  Sometimes, the media just lies to us, and this is such a case.  There is no counter-argument to this faked picture, but rbb tries to concoct one.

If govt control of the economy were the way to go, the Soviet Union would be the richest, most powerful nation in the history of the world.

Thanks to Obama, America remains the only country where it is illegal to drill our own oil!

Hey, it’s Fraser’s brother…and he is saying negative things about me!

In my own way, I try to keep another perspective on this gop table. The RNC, the DoD, the good Senator and yes even the current President, all use the media to catapult the propaganda, as The Decider is fond of saying. I attempted to ride the over arching curve to connect all media propaganda and how all of it should be fact checked. Perhaps I should have used more words.  If anyone here might cotton to the notion that the RNC ad or the photo shopped bush ad is not MEDIA, guess again. Control the image / control the public.

Note please that I did call all of it, whoever has done it, as wrong.

dats some dang bad gramer I jus done did

rbb: No, you tried to distract from the obvious lying in the world media to push your own meaningless partisan agenda, like the threadjacker you are.  At least be man enough to be honest about it.  You are trying to sell us that you are doing some public service, when you are just doing your usual navel-gazing.  Pathetic.
Both Parties use deceptive political ads.  Then there’s the Joe Lieberman/blackface thing, but this is in a different dimension.

If govt control of the economy were the way to go, the Soviet Union would be the richest, most powerful nation in the history of the world.

Thanks to Obama, America remains the only country where it is illegal to drill our own oil!

I find it funny that all “realitybased"bob can engage in is a silly tit-for-tat. It’s almost like he’s trying to obfuscate the issue here.

Ralph…Have you ever seen the movie The Fires Of Kuwait? Everyone should see what Saddam did… I cried.

Ken in the post: Look at this disgusting display of media bias.

Realityboob in the comments: Um…LOOK OVER HERE REPUBLICANS ARE STINKY!!!

The purpose of government shouldn’t be to do good, but simply to refrain from doing evil.

Fantasy Based Boob,

Didn’t you know that I have an authentic picture taken with Jane Fonda?  By the way, who photoshopped that picture you linked to?  Who gets the credit for it?  A big time Republican?  It appeared after the legit one.  Maybe it was one of my donkey psychophants…..like you for example….putting out a faked picture and claiming that “the picture” was an obvious fake in order to deflect attention from the fact that I most certainly DID have a picture taken with Jane Fonda at an anti-war rally.

Everyone should see what Saddam did

No photoshop there.

Or here.

Thanks W, you’re going down in history.

I can’t believe anyone fell for this attempt by Chuckles the Clown to bash the MSM.
Here is the link to the site CJ got the info and images from.
http://www.leftandright.us/index.php/site/reuters_faking_photos/

Read my analysis and take a look at the images again.

In this small 4.5 x 3 inch(my screen@1024x768) photo the right hand column of smoke appears cloned but not when blown up. On the original photo right click and select “save image as” to your desktop so you can find it. It’s called “reutersfake.bmp”. Open with a pic viewer and increase magnification to 200%, 300% and 400%. You will see that the patterns in the 2 columns of smoke do not repeat, are not the same or cloned. It is a coincidence that happens also with clouds and is magnified because of the small image. Fine detail is lost.

And you are being faked out by the second photo which is a 2 frame animated gif image. This is the image that was fraudulently manipulated and not the original. The second, “sharpened” frame is actually cloned from another area of the pic by the person that produced this animated gif image.

Look at the second frame of the gif image which has a supposed sharpened version of that area in the original. When sharpened, look at the building that slopes down on the left hand side, in the extreme bottom right corner of the sharpened area. It looks like the same building just slightly to the left at the bottom of the original. In the original that area is a blur and when sharpened the brights and darks don’t mach up. Now look above the spot of that sloped building in the original, and notice the bright building above, lining up with the right side of that building with the slope. Look at the brightness of that building in the original and how that building disappears in the sharpened version. That building should also be sharper and brighter. It shouldn’t just disappear altogether. When sharpened you can still make out the extreme right side of that building in the original area out side the sharpened area. But in the sharpened portion 90% of that building is missing.

The building to the left of the building with the slope is suspect. On the back of the right side at the roof of that building see how the bright spot appears and disappears, ditto for the bright spot 1 floor down the building from roof area bright spot. If you sharpen, bright areas get brighter and dark areas get darker.
Also this building is shifting slightly left and right between the 2 frames. Put your curser on an edge to see this shift.

Granted this building looks similar to the one below and to the left in the original. Have you ever seen pics of Cabrini Green housing complex in Chicago. Row after row of the same buildings. There are buildings in any big city in the US that are exactly the same built by the same developer. Back in the early 80’s when the USS New Jersey was shelling the Muslim section of Beirut the pics of the area bombed looked like Cabrini Green only on a hillside. If this is repeated clones the building that slopes off to the left should have as much detail as the building to it’s left, in the original, because it is so bright. And that disappearing building should show below. But you only see that building once in the original

Now look at the bottom left corner of the second “sharpened image and look how the smoke just disappears from the original. In that area of the second “sharpened frame, you see a building with no smoke in front of the top of that building like there should be, sharpened or not.

Look at the left had column of smoke. In the original it is contiguous. In the sharpened frame it is separated on the right side and you can see through it. Also notice how the edges of the smoke shift in the second “sharpened” frame. Notice the shape of the smoke, that touches the left edge of the pic, rising from the buildings in the bottom left corner.  Then look at the smoke at the top left of the sharpened image. Notice how the shape changes. And in the sharpened frame it looks exactly like the smoke I mentioned before at the bottom that’s touching the left edge of the pic.

If you look hard you will see a few other tell tale signs of manipulation of the published original.

Looking at this animated gif produce by the propagandist, my image viewer shows the masked area that was copied by this person.

The propagandist copied the buildings from the bottom left of the pic and pasted (cloned) them higher and to the right. Then they reduced the size to make it proportional for the further distance were it was pasted. Then used the blur tool on the clone that they pasted.

People will do anything or believe anything that advances the “dishonest” MSM meme.

“realitybased"bob, you’re really sticking up for Hezbollah, aren’t you? That’s what it looks like. Why else would you be running nonsensical diversions? Maybe it’s your Bush Derangement Syndrome.

Chimpy: Reuters has admitted the fake, and the photographer is suspended pending investigation.  So much for your long-winded and irrelevant post.  Better luck next time.

If govt control of the economy were the way to go, the Soviet Union would be the richest, most powerful nation in the history of the world.

Thanks to Obama, America remains the only country where it is illegal to drill our own oil!

Chimpy says, I can’t believe anyone fell for this attempt by Chuckles the Clown to bash the MSM.

...and then he says, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.

and then, People will do anything or believe anything that advances the “dishonest” MSM meme.

Eat your words you fool.

Here is the real photo you fool.

I guess the ‘“dishonest’ MSM meme” doesn’t need scare quotes around the word, “dishonest”, does it you clown?

IGNORE Chimpy.  That f’n retard is going around spamming all the blogs with the same comment.  He won’t be back, he’s busy scanning Technorati to find other blogs to spam.
What a drooling moron.

I’m as pro-Israel as they come, but count me among those who are completely unsurprised by this revelation.  I agree, Rob, that this not something about which we should be nonchalant, but there’s a reason why I have pretty much given up on the MSM as being any more reliable than the blogosphere of which the MSM is so critical.  In fact, as time has march on, it has proven to be much less so.

Reuters in particular is a fraud and joke, and that is about the nicest comments I can make.  This is an organization that STILL can’t bring itself to call terrorists by their proper name.  Then again, from that organization’s deluded point of view, anyone who kills American or Jews (double bonus points if you kill someone who meets both criterion!) is by definition NOT a terrorist.

“likwid”shoe sputters: “realitybased"bob, you’re really sticking up for Hezbollah, aren’t you?

Aaahh, no.

Why do you hate America?

Beth said, IGNORE Chimpy. That f’n retard is going around spamming all the blogs with the same comment.

Ahhh. So he’s spamming and trying to sell us a line of certifiable bullshit. Sounds like a good candidate for an IP ban. He certainly fits into the “spammer” definition.

“realitybased"bob stutters, Aaahh, no.

Then how come every time something bad about Hezbollah comes up, all you can focus on is Bush or the Republicans?

Why do you hate America?

Don’t be stupid, just answer my question.

:(  Why didn’t the fantasy based boob answer my question? 

Which big time Republican photoshopped that picture of me and Fonda, boob?  Since you’re using it to castigate Republicans, it would be helpful to know which one did it.  What did you think of the real one?  I know it’s soo hard to believe nutters like me and fonda would hang out at the same anti-“Genghis Kahn” type events, but that’s only because you’re one of my favorite apologists.  Thanks again.

al Reuters has come clean:

Reuters news agency admitted on Sunday that one of its photographers had digitally altered a photograph of an Israeli attack on Lebanon on Saturday, showing more smoke than was actually present.

The photograph, as initially published, showed an aerial view of Beirut after an IAF attack, with two large pillars of smoke rising over the city. The caption read: Smoke billows from burning buildings destroyed during an overnight Israeli air raid on Beirut’s suburbs.

The agency has since withdrawn the photograph, issued an apology and released the unaltered picture. Its public relations department said the photographer had been suspended until the investigation was completed.