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Reuters Photo Is A Fraud? (Vanity with pics)
091505 | Me

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]

Rueters Photo A Fraud?

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..



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To: Mo1
Mo.........the more I think about this, the funnier it gets.

Let's suppose the note is real (I know..........it's a stretch). There is a photographer for Reuters so totally juvenile that he takes a pic of the note and crops it so the note is larger. Then the writing is enhanced. Then it gets to an editor who looks at it, and decides to publish it.

Every step of the way, these people are five year old morons. Who, with half a brain, tries to embarrass the leader of the free world with the fact that he goes to the bathroom?? Who will think less of him if this is a real photo? Who is so immature that they actually would use this to belittle the President?

The entire left has lost its collective mind. They are no longer a force to be reckoned with, because they are all absolutely, totally insane.

I'm really enjoying this one. :)

81 posted on 09/15/2005 2:52:08 PM PDT by ohioWfan (If my people which are called by my name will humble themselves and pray......)
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To: antaresequity

Obviously fake. Everyone knows Karl Rove does all the President's bathroom breaks.


82 posted on 09/15/2005 2:52:09 PM PDT by Leroy S. Mort
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To: antaresequity

bookmark...

I think we may have a new Buckhead if they are dumb enough to run this story :)


83 posted on 09/15/2005 2:53:38 PM PDT by MikefromOhio (Hey Fox News, MORE MOLLY, LESS Greta van Talksoutthesideofhermouth)
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To: mcg1969
In that other pic he's not holding a yellow #2 #1 #2 pencil.
84 posted on 09/15/2005 2:54:07 PM PDT by Jaded (Hell sometimes has fluorescent lighting and a trumpet. Whadda you mean sometimes?)
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To: All

Even if it is a fake, who cares?? Everyone goes to the bathroom for one reason or another. Maybe George had an upset stomach for pete's sakes. Going to the bathroom is news? This has got the be the stupidest thing a MSM is pulling now!


85 posted on 09/15/2005 2:54:39 PM PDT by Halls (Terri Schindler Schiavo was murdered legally in our country, NEVER FORGET!!!)
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To: antaresequity

I took the picture and enlarged it with Paint Shop Pro and it was not pixelated like in your picture. I think that effect is due to your settings and sharpening of the picture. Don't think that is evidence of a fake.


86 posted on 09/15/2005 2:55:11 PM PDT by faq (Click on "faq" page to read "Things you may have forgotten about Iraq.")
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To: antaresequity

Roto-rooters lied? Say it ain't so! Next it'll be that we can't trust the New York Times. Oh, the huge manateee!
(Kids today . . . .)


87 posted on 09/15/2005 2:55:31 PM PDT by tumblindice (Why didn't Superman just strap on a Lane recliner when flying? Satellite dish, case of beer, can of)
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To: navysealdad
Hershorn says The (Toronto) Globe and Mail published it but he wasn't sure of any other outlets. Hershorn says he decided to transmit the picture because it was interesting.

"There was no malicious intent," he says. "That's not what we do."


Link please? TIA
88 posted on 09/15/2005 2:56:13 PM PDT by blogblogginaway
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To: antaresequity

Well, the demarcations that you think are signs of cut and paste are just digital artifacts common to .jpg compression. Test it out yourself.


89 posted on 09/15/2005 2:57:24 PM PDT by Melas (The dumber the troll, the longer the thread)
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To: antaresequity

I don't understand why somebody would go to that much trouble? It's not like faking ANG records or claiming Bush lied about WMDs. What's the point of "faking" that Bush needs to use the restroom? Doesn't everybody?


90 posted on 09/15/2005 2:57:34 PM PDT by Tall_Texan (RIP New Orleans 1718-2005)
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To: Leroy S. Mort

I thought Bush was Rove's puppet-do puppets take bathroom breaks?


91 posted on 09/15/2005 2:58:53 PM PDT by sanemom
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To: All
A long time ago, I read that Bush used to attend Texas Ranger games and would not get up to go to the bathroom the entire time. Does he ever go?

Seriously, if someone was going to fake a note to make him look bad, they could have come up with something more scandalous than needing to take a bathroom break!

92 posted on 09/15/2005 2:59:23 PM PDT by Nea Wood (A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children. Proverbs 13:22)
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To: mcg1969
Bush didn't write the top note. Condoleeza Rice did.

I think that's exactly right. People are missing the fact that there are two different sets of handwriting there.
93 posted on 09/15/2005 2:59:24 PM PDT by July 4th (A vacant lot cancelled out my vote for Bush.)
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To: Tall_Texan

True. But if they manipulate something like this, it begs the question. What else have they manipulated?


94 posted on 09/15/2005 2:59:24 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: antaresequity; All
I see it... I see it! It says;

Benteen,

Come quick
big village, bring packs.

PS: Bring pacs

95 posted on 09/15/2005 2:59:37 PM PDT by johnny7 (“"The thing about a shark... he's got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes.”)
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To: ohioWfan
That is the truly bizarre part.
96 posted on 09/15/2005 3:00:19 PM PDT by sanemom
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To: antaresequity

I have no doubt that the picture is edited in some way (if the lighting wasn't ideal, and since a flash would have been useless at the likely distance, they would have brightened the image artificially afterwards with software). But I doubt it is a complete fabrication. It would take someone five minutes in MS Paint (forget Photoshop) to fix up the artifacts here and save it in a not as lossy format (the closer to raw the better).

Just underneath the pencil, there IS some JPEG artifact. The greater the difference in the color between two regions, the larger the artifact will be. So for black on white, those really clear artifacts should be expected.

As an experiment, take a picture (or find a picture) of handwriting in raw format and then save it as JPEG. In my experience, these artifacts, even at this intensity, are something that cannot be avoided.

That unfortunately gives cover to some forms of doctoring. I am NOT an expert on this sort of photo manipulation (I have some experience developing image compression algorithms), but I am sure that there are people who can tell the difference between artifacts and more sinister things...I cannot.


97 posted on 09/15/2005 3:00:29 PM PDT by M203M4
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To: Rebelbase

Condi won.


98 posted on 09/15/2005 3:00:39 PM PDT by PeaceBeWithYou (De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afganistan and Iraq))
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To: Tall_Texan

Drudge has a (non-working) link stating that Reuters has acknowledged the phot was enhanced....


99 posted on 09/15/2005 3:00:57 PM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitor)
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To: faq
Click on "faq" page to read "Things you may have forgotten about Iraq."

That is a great Freeper page you've created. Thanks for the resource!

100 posted on 09/15/2005 3:01:28 PM PDT by jigsaw (God Bless Our Troops.)
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