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Castro Newspaper Fake?
Self | August 13, 2006 | Self

Posted on 08/13/2006 12:07:14 PM PDT by jdm

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To: kingu
Check out what looks like a staple in the upper left corner of Castro's "newspaper" and the lighting that is typical for a stack of papers folded at the staple.
21 posted on 08/13/2006 12:17:45 PM PDT by KarlInOhio ("Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper" - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: jdm
Honestly, I don't think the photo itself is fake. But the circumstances surrounding it are unknown, which makes it difficult to authenticate, imo.

Does anyone know what the article is about? Is it dated and where? If you are trying to authenticate it, that's where I would head.

Of course, he could actually still be alive.
22 posted on 08/13/2006 12:17:59 PM PDT by pollyannaish
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To: jdm

Because he is color blind?


23 posted on 08/13/2006 12:18:35 PM PDT by razorback-bert
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To: jdm
They have been fooling the liberals so successfully and for so long, they now think they can fool everybody.

Duh! The liberals are always the first to fall for anything.

Fooling a liberal no more difficult than fooling a parakeet.

24 posted on 08/13/2006 12:19:12 PM PDT by capt. norm (Bumper Sticker: Honk if you've never seen an Uzi shoot from a car window.)
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To: SamAdams76
Is that Jimmy Carter's bedspread in the background?

As for the Adidas get-up, he was pictured wearing it alongside Carter, back in 2002.


25 posted on 08/13/2006 12:19:20 PM PDT by jdm
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To: kingu
Used to make my galley proofs on 11 x 17 before taking it to the print plant for my own newspaper.

BINGO!
26 posted on 08/13/2006 12:19:52 PM PDT by Leonard210
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My bet is that it's a proof copy.  The red ink gets picked up on the printing press.

However, Fidel probably could have had it photo-shopped from red to black so he and his brother could bet on how many tin foil posts in Free Republic will suggest this is the beginning of "Weekend at Fidel's."

 

27 posted on 08/13/2006 12:20:01 PM PDT by HawaiianGecko (Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.)
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To: jdm

He actually looks very similar in those two photos. If this is real, he hasn't aged much in the past four years.


28 posted on 08/13/2006 12:21:45 PM PDT by pollyannaish
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To: kingu

I think it's possible they photographed Castro some days ago with a newspaper for the very purpose of inserting a different paper later on in order to prove his continued existence.


29 posted on 08/13/2006 12:22:14 PM PDT by San Jacinto
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To: jdm

The photo of Castro with Carter leads to one logical question: Is Carter for real?


30 posted on 08/13/2006 12:24:49 PM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax , You earn it . You keep it!)
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To: San Jacinto

"I think it's possible they photographed Castro some days ago with a newspaper for the very purpose of inserting a different paper later on in order to prove his continued existence."

I agree, but my guess is that he held up 5 or 6 blank sheets of 11 X 17 paper (folded down the middle) back in 2002 (when he was photographed with Jimmy Carter, wearing the same jacket). He may have (long) known that these shots would be his "last" shots.


31 posted on 08/13/2006 12:25:20 PM PDT by jdm
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To: Man50D
"The photo of Castro with Carter leads to one logical question: Is Carter for real?"

Look at the color of their hats. Why is one orange and one red? Maybe one hat is older and has had the original brightness somewhat washed out of it?


32 posted on 08/13/2006 12:27:35 PM PDT by jdm
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To: San Jacinto

"I think it's possible they photographed Castro some days ago with a newspaper for the very purpose of inserting a different paper later on in order to prove his continued existence."




DING DING DING !!!

Tell him what he's won, Johnny!


33 posted on 08/13/2006 12:33:43 PM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem - Ps 122:6)
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To: jdm
Look at the color of their hats. Why is one orange and one red? Maybe one hat is older and has had the original brightness somewhat washed out of it?

That was a poor attempt at a joke. It amazes me someone who was once a U.S. Presidnet is now associating himself with a communist dictator. Carter should be trid for treason.
34 posted on 08/13/2006 12:39:02 PM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax , You earn it . You keep it!)
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To: capt. norm

LOL! Capt....My parakeet is smarter than the average liberal! :)


35 posted on 08/13/2006 12:40:21 PM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland (NY Slimes the paper of record for OBL!)
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To: jdm; NautiNurse

Courtesy of nautinurse.

(I couldnt' resist nautinurse - that's hilarious!)

36 posted on 08/13/2006 12:40:29 PM PDT by Bon mots
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To: All
Good analysis from a graphic designer and photoshop wrangler
37 posted on 08/13/2006 12:41:09 PM PDT by Minus_The_Bear
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To: alice_in_bubbaland
LOL! Capt....My parakeet is smarter than the average liberal! :)

At least the parakeet keeps his droppings confined to the (liberal) newspaper on the bottom of his cage.

Libs like to spread theirs around .


38 posted on 08/13/2006 12:45:36 PM PDT by capt. norm (Bumper Sticker: Honk if you've never seen an Uzi shoot from a car window.)
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To: Paladin2
 
I don't believe they're the same person, for the following reasons:
 
1.  The ears are different
2.  The bridge of the nose in Photo #1 is smaller than in Photo #2
3.  The tip of the nose points downward in photo #1 as opposed to Photo #2 (where it's also more bulbous)
4.  Eye color appears to be different 
5.  The moles are not evident in Photo #1
6.  The cheeks are not as puffy in Photo #1
7.  The forehead is longer in Photo #1, and not because of a receding hairline -- it's a different shape.
 
I wish I could see his hands -- that would give away quite a bit.

39 posted on 08/13/2006 12:51:40 PM PDT by scott7278 (The War on Terror includes defending the homefront from the MSM.)
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To: scott7278

I think its the same person. Picture one as taken several years before picture two.

If Castro was still alive or not in a coma, they would have him holding a copy of today's New York Times with the print very readable (date).


40 posted on 08/13/2006 1:12:33 PM PDT by kempo
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