Tha bruise on his arm looks real, but those shiners are fake.Good Heavens! What happened to the title?
Someone needs to tell him that too much eye makeup makes one look cheap.
Those don't look like black eyes to me.
It looks like when we used to put shoe polish under our eyes for football games.
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Those black eyes look like something I got when suiting up for a football game.
Damn nice of the thugs to not punch him in the mouth, nose, cheeks or ears. He just received two easily faked black eyes. I wonder who applied the make up.
Yep, he brought the trouble on himself all right - and I didn't see nuthin', officer.
The guy is a POS and staged the incident.
I've had a few black eyes in my days, and the whites of the eyes are always bloodshot. They are not in these pictures.
It looks like black paint and he is getting ready to take to the football field.
Those black eyes are phoney.
Is that picture intended to portray the extent of his injuries? That's it?
Sheesh. I get more beat up changing the tie-rods on my car.
Nice of the guy who popped him to allow him to take off his glasses first, else he may have been cut and bruised by the glass frame since the symmetry of those shiners demands a punch to the center of his nose.
When I first saw the picture on Michelle Malkin's site it never occurred to me that the black stripes were part of his supposed injury. I thought he was only showing off his arm. I thought the guy had the black football stripes as special effects to show he was tough or something.
Tha bruise on his arm looks real, but those shiners are fake.I've never seen black eyes that looked like that. They do not look authentic. Let's see that broken tooth that Mirecki reported himself, over the phone, to the student newspaper, but no one else seems to know anything about.
Smile for the camera, Dave.
So this vain nut has his portrait taken for the public to see? Oh yeah, I'm really convinced now. Sheesh.
I'm not a doctor or a lawyer, but after seeing that picture, I think the correct foresnic term is "risible".
Nice studio photograph. Now let's see the images from the police report.
In the interest of minumizing bandwidth I'm posting as a link.
It's obvious that the damage is confined to the sides of the bridge of his nose. His glasses can be seen in his shirt pocket so I speculate that he's had them repaired.
Would it be possible to acquire the injuries shown by bumping one's glasses (while wearing them) into, say, a steering wheel? Just a thought.
First of all, the characters that supposedly attacked him sound way too much like stereotypes. They're kind of like the black guys in hooded sweatshirts that hold up guys that just lost their paycheck in a poker game. In original accounts, he couldn't recall where the encounter took place. You remember that kind of stuff. Call me suspicious, but I find it difficult to believe that a couple of rednecks in a pickup are following a dispute over a two hour religion class at the local college closely enough to recognize the professor in his car, take the time to stake him out, and follow him for the chance of beating him up. The injuries are all superficial. Those injuries look like a guy that went into his kitchen or bathroom and whacked himself a few times with a bat or a poker. Two black eyes, and no visible nose injury. No teeth missing, no cracked ribs from getting kicked after they got him down. If two guys were mean enough to do this, they would have beaten the living dog crap out of him, breaking his nose and several teeth. Once they got him down, they would have kicked him several times, breaking ribs. He would have had road rash from hitting the pavement, and they would have taken his keys, and probably crashed his car for him. Finally, I think they would have stripped his clothes and left him semiconscious. I'm sorry, but guys mean enough to ambush someone are not going to pop him once or twice in the eye and then get in their car and leave.
The story fits too well with the liberal fairy tales about how conservatives act. "Crusading professor beaten by rednecks for fearlessly pursuing truth" is the headline he envisioned in the press the next day.