Posted on 09/15/2005 2:26:16 PM PDT by antaresequity
Edited on 09/15/2005 2:35:33 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
First off the handwriting isn't Bush's...
Look at the first image and compare the 'I'..it appears as if the lower writing is indeed his, but
not the crap about the bathroom break...
Further...when the image is enhanced and sharpened...you can begin to see the blocks of cut and
paste graphics, and their obviosu demarcations...The lower image has been sharpened in fireworks by
three or four degrees...you can see clearly square demarcations around the supposed text..
Reuters claims that they "burned" an OVERexposed image. Dunno if you use Photoshop, but burning is used for underexposed images. The explainations from Reuters are starting to sound like a 9 year old.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1485316/posts?q=1&&page=104
That's because IT'S NOT.
I was hoping Brit would shoot this down during his "Grapevine" segment, but alas, he didn't. Hopefully whoever fills in for him on Fridays will mention it tomorrow.
Oh my gosh, they made a mistake in terminology? Gasp! I didn't know! That's it, maybe they not only forged THIS one, but they also forged all the photographs of the hurricane damage too!
Does that sound 9-year-old enough for you?
Not if they have any journalistic integrity.
There are no WalMarts near me...but that is another conspiracy.
This is clearly another rEUters attempt to slam the administration...just like all those malicious captions on the Hurricane Katrina photos. Days and days of false captioning, repeated worldwide by the media.
shame shame shame.
Why? It's another petty, juvenile attempt by Reuters to try to embarrass the President.
The only big deal to this photo would be if it were altered. ...So Pres. Bush pees...I bet he poops too. Who doesn't and why would this be news?
That's the word...when will they grow up?
Another famous rEUters photo
LOL, yeah, I know what you mean. I'm stuck with Target and Costco :)
This is clearly another rEUters attempt to slam the administration.
Now look, let me be clear on something. I am SURE that when someone pulled this photo off of their camera, they were friggin' gleeful about the fun people would have at the President's expense. On that I suspect I agree with you, Howlin, and many others on this thread.
What I reject outright is that they faked the text to do it.
I don't think we can claim it's "fake" based on what we know to be fact. The handwriting looking iffy is problematic, as is their hesitance to copping to the 'shopping.
Having said that, I'd really like them to release the original image right off the flash card.
I am referring to the baseless allegations that this photo was faked. I welcome them reporting on Reuters decision to run the silly photo, though.
The mark of ex-military is the distinctive way they write their dates. I still do it military style, and I haven't served in quite a while.
Block caps is very strongly correlated with engineers I've discovered, almost stereotypically. I do this too, thanks to several years in engineering school, though interestingly enough I started doing it before I went to college. People see me write something, and I get an "oh, so your an engineer?" comment.
I am so sorry. Never again will I question the unsurpassed integrity of the impartial media. Their abilities and motives should not have come under any sort of scrutiny by any of us. Had you not properly chastized me, I just might have gone off of the deep end and demanded some accountability from a poor maligned photojournalist that is trying to feed his family. How could anyone expect that the first amendment right to Photoshop news photographs would come into question be such a moronic dolt as I?
(A repeat of my post 171:) Now look, let me be clear on something. I am SURE that when someone pulled this photo off of their camera, they were friggin' gleeful about the fun people would have at the President's expense. On that I suspect I agree with you, Howlin, and many others on this thread.
What I reject outright is that they faked the text to do it. The evidence simply isn't there.
I hear that even when he's got a crayon clenched in his fist he can't stay within the lines.
Reuters finds Bush's outhouse in Crawford
Then they (the "news" organization) should state that the image has been Photoshopped. Now that Reuters has stated that they routinely Photoshop, everybody can just go back to sleep. I am not a tinfoil conspiracy nut, yet I do work with video media. It can be edited and manipulated. And it does get edited and manipulated. Do not believe everything that you see and hear as being the unadulterated truth.
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