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Fake photo fallout: Chinese officials embrace social media to explain mixup
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Posted on 06/30/2011 2:16:35 PM PDT by nuconvert
One of the worst doctored photographs in Internet history? That's the emerging verdict on a clumsily altered photo of bureacrats in the sleepy county of Huili, in southwest China's Sichuan province. In an ill-fated PR stunt, the trio of area government officials are shown appearing to float over the surface of a road, casting nary a shadow in a bid to promote a local road construction project.
"The saga began on Monday when Huili's website published a picture showing, according to the accompanying story, three local officials inspecting a newly completed road construction project this month," the Guardian's Peter Walker reports.
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TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: china; commietrick; communismkills; fakephotos; fauxtography; pravdamedia; stalinisttactics; thislooksshooped; waronerror
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posted on
06/30/2011 2:16:39 PM PDT
by
nuconvert
To: nuconvert
we can save a lot of taxdollars if Obama would fake his many many photo-ops and trips abroad.
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posted on
06/30/2011 2:27:23 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
To: nuconvert
Stay out of the road if you want to grow old.
To: nuconvert
Ha! It's pretty bad all right!
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posted on
06/30/2011 2:40:11 PM PDT
by
JennysCool
(My hypocrisy goes only so far)
To: JennysCool
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posted on
06/30/2011 2:46:29 PM PDT
by
bvw
To: bvw
Wow! Some hilarious stuff!
Thanks!!!
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posted on
06/30/2011 3:06:33 PM PDT
by
JennysCool
(My hypocrisy goes only so far)
To: nuconvert
Obviously done by the same inept crew that prepared Obama’s COLB.
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posted on
06/30/2011 3:10:34 PM PDT
by
Da Coyote
To: nuconvert
Now, that's funny stuff.
Someone just needs more practice with his pirated version of Photoshop.
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posted on
06/30/2011 3:19:51 PM PDT
by
BfloGuy
(Even the opponents of Socialism are dominated by socialist ideas.)
To: JennysCool
Now all we need is a creative FReeper who can photoshop this pic (maybe insert the Heineken looter, or even “shovel-ready” Baraq).
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posted on
06/30/2011 3:31:52 PM PDT
by
rfp1234
To: Berlin_Freeper
Great song, great album.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
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posted on
06/30/2011 3:51:55 PM PDT
by
wku man
(Who says conservatives don't rock? http://www.bigdawgmusicmafia.com)
To: nuconvert
Confucius say: Man who appears to float on new highway knows it is his asphalt.
To: nuconvert
one good fake deserves another...
![](http://i51.tinypic.com/157jk79.jpg")
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posted on
06/30/2011 4:16:47 PM PDT
by
frankenMonkey
(Because he was the son you bore, And gave to that wind blowing and that tide!)
To: frankenMonkey
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posted on
06/30/2011 4:19:54 PM PDT
by
nuconvert
( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
To: nuconvert
sorry, it’s beer time for real here in colorado.
duty calls.
ah beer. nectar of the gods...
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posted on
06/30/2011 4:22:03 PM PDT
by
frankenMonkey
(Because he was the son you bore, And gave to that wind blowing and that tide!)
To: GeronL
The funny thing is, they actually did visit the road. Apparently the photographer decided he needed a better pic...
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posted on
06/30/2011 6:32:52 PM PDT
by
linear
(Life is too short to worry about those unmarked black helicopters hovering over your house...)
To: linear
wow. They were really there? hahaha
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posted on
06/30/2011 6:46:43 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
To: nuconvert; dead; Roscoe Karns; JoeProBono; Daffynition
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posted on
07/01/2011 4:45:14 AM PDT
by
JRios1968
(I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)
To: nuconvert
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posted on
07/01/2011 7:02:01 AM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: dead
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posted on
07/01/2011 7:50:05 AM PDT
by
nuconvert
( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
To: nuconvert
I like this one from the site:
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posted on
07/02/2011 7:15:28 AM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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