1971 Photo of Kerry Doctored

newsday.com ^ | 02/14/04 | Michael Rothfeld

[KQQL]

As a 20-year-old photographer documenting the country's struggle over the Vietnam War, Ken Light snapped the picture of John Kerry at a peace rally in Mineola. It captured the future senator alone at a podium, squinting into the sun.

Light did not photograph Jane Fonda on that warm June Sunday in 1971. The actress, who is reviled by many Vietnam veterans for her vocal stance against the war, did not even attend.

But when opponents of the Democratic presidential hopeful began e-mailing Light's picture to one another four days ago, it depicted Fonda standing by Kerry's side. The photo had been doctored.

Dag Vega, a spokesman for Kerry's campaign, said, "The smear tactics have started already."

The Web site's creator, Ted Sampley, a Vietnam veteran from North Carolina, said he received the doctored photo by e-mail on Wednesday from a woman in Richmond, Va.

"Thought you might want to include this pic on your site," said the note from Loree Siemek, with an attachment called "HanoiJohn.jpg," a takeoff on "Hanoi Jane," the derisive nickname given to Fonda by her critics during the Vietnam era. It is made to look like a newspaper clipping, headlined "Fonda Speaks to Vietnam Veterans at Anti- War Rally," with an Associated Press photo credit. Sampley said he was immediately skeptical, and e-mailed it to some friends who concluded it was faked. He did not post it.

Siemek, 34, reached by phone, said she found the picture on a conservative Internet message board and had no idea it was phony.

[Prime Choice]

Posting the pic here was one thing, but sending it to the LIBERAL media before confirmation is NOT GOOD !

Considering that:

1. a lot of media goons are likely to hang around FR (indeed, several have cited quotes from this site), and
2. the original faked photo was posted without any indication that it had been faked (it was even couched as if it'd been torn out of a printed paper, photocopied, and "passed along" to a third party),

...it's no wonder this whole thing is now rearing up to bite us on the behind. The perpetrator has done little but to hand a Holy Grail of plausible deniability to the Left.

Heck, a lot of those Leftist jerks already have a gaggle of hangers-on who believe the video & audio bin Laden confessions of involvement in 9/11 were the product of Hollywood and/or the CIA.

Handing them this fakery only serves to legitimize their warped view of reality.

[Nick Danger]

This thread is about Kerry's anti-war photos, not his affairs.

That's right! And let's remember to keep both of those things off the threads about his use of Botox, and the threads about his hyper-liberal voting record, and the threads about his dealings with, erm, certain lobbyists.

[Prime Choice]

Unfortunately, exposing this info has just gotten tougher, IMHO, thanks to the fake photo.

And there was much gnashing of teeth.

[KQQL]

go see ..what DU post about W and company on their site..
most of is fake crap...


.where is the media?

[KneelBeforeZod]

that was one of the worst photoshops ever that people took seriously.

OTOH, heres a good one.

[spodefly]

This photo is real.

[KQQL]

[Paleo Conservative]

where is the media?

They're sluts for lefitsts. At least a prostitute sells it. The press gives it away free.

[Paleo Conservative]

So is this one!

[Right_in_Virginia]

Call me paranoid but I believe the media is doing that intentionally. That way the other photo sort of gets to be suspicious by default.

You're not paranoid. But, the media's attempt to wash away Kerry's actions when he returned from Vietnam just won't work. There's too much "there there".

[Right_in_Virginia]

Interesting comparison ;^)

[Paleo Conservative]

Sometimes a cigar is not just a cigar.

[The Duke]

The actress, who is reviled by many Vietnam veterans for her vocal stance against the war,..

That's interesting - and here I was thinking it was because she gave aid and comfort to the enemy!

[Paleo Conservative]

[ThePythonicCow]

That's right! And let's remember ...

Do I detect a note of sarcasm, Nick? Well, yes, perhaps justified. I am not sure the FR software can handle this many separate threads at once ;).

It wasn't so much the mixing of Kerry topics, as it was just the unadorned, unexplained plopping down of a Kerry affair picture on a couple of Kerry anti-war photo threads.

[KQQL]

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[Cincinatus' Wife]

Why the long face?

[Twinkie]

Yep. That's right. Sometimes the monkeying around with
the photo shop stuff is okay, sometimes it cuts the other
way and could conceivably get someone in trouble. Especially
when it is dealing with something this serious. Like the
boy who cried wolf, when the real thing comes along no one
will believe it.