The photo incident does show that fake pix and inappropriate pix cannot just slide by any more. Actually it is a caution to anyone, on the left as will as the rest of us, that photoshopping and substitution will not get by free. It is a good thing. That said, this one will likely not do any damage if K can produce some properly labeled Baghdad pix.
They already have, his explanation of an error by the webmaster is entirely plausible, regardless what some moderates and their supporters here try to impugn re: Howard's character.
We have less than 2 weeks to go. Expect the most conservative to be attacked , it's what moderate weinies and dems do, yaknow.