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.

[ThePythonicCow]

A reference for the Time Magazine rumour:

Rumour has it that John Kerry is going to be outed by Time magazine next week for having an affair ...

See FR Post: Democratic aide was source of affair rumour that dogs Kerry

[ThePythonicCow]

We live in interesting times.

[KQQL]

AKA as the INTERN FAMILY !

[Cincinatus' Wife]

REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

[ThePythonicCow]

Yeah - I agree with your idea that Hitlary is trying to create a brokered convention. I've probably suggested as much myself here, on FR, in some old posts.

This is going to be one nasty election.

We must win.

[KQQL]

he's wearing michael jackson's lipstick

[KQQL]

At The New York Times the story awoke uncomfortable memories. After an earlier sexual scandal involving Senator Gary Hart — a presidential candidate who was photographed with his mistress on a yacht called Monkey Business — senior editors concluded that journalistic investigation had taken a wrong turn.

“They felt here was a guy with good ideas who was qualified to be president but got derailed,” one source at the paper said. “I remember editors saying, ‘Never again’.”

Sunday Times

[longtermmemmory]

This is a real picture of kerry speaking in support of
homosexual marriage and rights before the HRC.

Political Button of homosexuals for kerry.
(s)Kerry speaks with forked toung.(/s)

[KQQL]

HOW DO you know he spoke about support for gay marriage at that meetings..got a link

[KQQL]

you were right....


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"Kerry indicated he might eventually back gay marriages if a public consensus developed for them," Brownstein Notes.
http://www.massinsider.com/archives/001261.phtml

[longtermmemmory]

scarry, no?

He will say what he has to and the do the left thing upon election. Remember Bill Clinton's FIRST big issue when he took office?

[ovrtaxt]

Any thought that the media did the photo editing and are now blaring stories about it to deflect the focus of the issue? How do you know it was a conservative that did it in the first place? Are we goin gto take their word that it was "found on a conservative message board"?

Same tactic with the Senate memo scandal. The content of the memos isn't the issue in the press, its how were they accessed?

I just don't trust these liars at all.

[KQQL]

Remember Bill Clinton's FIRST big issue when he took office?

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Don't ask and I will bend over for you.

[missyme]

Hey! It's a young Herman Munster! where's grandpa?

[KQQL]

granpa bubba was busy with the babes

[beckysueb]

Funny you should say that. When rumors of this doctored photo first came out, I looked all over FR for it. I found the individual ones but not the fake one until after it had been posted in that newspaper. Then I saw it on FR but only after it had been in the newspaper.

[Solamente]

[OldFriend]

By hyping the doctored photo they can imply that the true photo is also doctored.

Let's not fall into that trap.

[alisasny]

On the thread with the fake photo it was called a fake very quickly. I never recieved it in an email and I am on a lot of lists. It was also hard to find on FR if you were coming to look for it unless you spent a lot of time.

The whole situation stinks....