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The Independent reported today on the fake photo.

Highlights:

They have been at work ever since, as was seen this week with the fake snap of John Kerry which caused a stir in the United States. It purported to show him associating in the 1970s with the film star Jane Fonda, who is still widely reviled in the US for her visit to the enemy capital, Hanoi, during the Vietnam war. Many still see it as the act of a traitor.
This was not the kind of publicity the Democrats' leading presidential candidate needed. It was, we now know, doctored. But it fooled many US citizens and some British newspapers.

Notice how they fail to differentiate between the legitimate photo of Fonda with Kerry and the fake created by Registered. It lends uncertainty to the authentic photos.

Which means that Senator Kerry can comfort himself with one thought. The faked photos of him and Ms Fonda show that he must have got the Bush camp really worried.

Notice how they want to pin this on the "Bush camp" and not the act of an lone Internet photoshopper.

This was not the kind of publicity the Democrats' leading presidential candidate needed. It was, we now know, doctored. But it fooled many US citizens and some British newspapers

To me, it just proves where there is smoke, there is fire. Also, the media that was so willing to jump on the photo as real are the ones at fault for running with it. But it also says that the media think that John Kerry and Jane Fonda on the same stage in 1970 denouncing our country and our troops wouldn't be unusual or odd.

"They have been at work ever since, as was seen this week with the fake snap of John Kerry which caused a stir in the United States. It purported to show him associating in the 1970s with the film star Jane Fonda, who is still widely reviled in the US for her visit to the enemy capital, Hanoi, during the Vietnam war. Many still see it as the act of a traitor."

You're exactly right, Spiff. This is the way this is being reported whenever possible. And it is intentionally done to make people think that any photo they see of Kerry with Fonda is a fake.

It undercuts all of the work I and other here and elsewhere put into getting the Fonda Kerry connection out. It cut that story off at the knees.