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World Press Photo Contest - 1st Place to American Spencer Platt
World Press Photo ^ | February 8, 2007

Posted on 02/12/2007 10:11:49 AM PST by NYer

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1 posted on 02/12/2007 10:11:55 AM PST by NYer
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To: SJackson; Patrick_k

Ping!


2 posted on 02/12/2007 10:12:27 AM PST by NYer ("Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church" - Ignatius of Antioch)
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To: NYer
The perspective of that picture just doesn't look right.

I've taken better pictures than that.
3 posted on 02/12/2007 10:14:28 AM PST by Lusis ("Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.")
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To: NYer

Where's Green Helmet Guy?


4 posted on 02/12/2007 10:17:08 AM PST by My2Cents ("I support the right-ward most candidate who has a legitimate chance to win." -- W.F. Buckley)
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To: NYer
It is interesting that that photo would win.

It seems to portray a nice car full of rich kids who came into the seamy side of life to gawk for a while.
5 posted on 02/12/2007 10:18:01 AM PST by TomGuy
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World Press Photo Contest - 1st Place to American Spencer Platt

Is Reuters going to win the World Press Photoshop Contest?

6 posted on 02/12/2007 10:18:54 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Samoans: The (low) wage slaves in the Pelosi-Starkist complex.)
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To: NYer

Those hussies better get their burkhas on.


7 posted on 02/12/2007 10:21:14 AM PST by AD from SpringBay (We have the government we allow and deserve.)
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To: KarlInOhio
Is Reuters going to win the World Press Photoshop Contest?

only if the Katrina Heineken guy is in the picture

8 posted on 02/12/2007 10:21:31 AM PST by Rakkasan1 ((Illegal immigrants are just undocumented friends you haven't met yet!))
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To: NYer

Another oddity:

The 2 guys on the extreme right and the girl (center) in the car, all 3 seem to be on/using cell phones.

And several of them seem to be looking at something that would be to the back of the photographer. Note the guy standing in the center background, the girl in white in the front seat and the 2 (girl, guy) in the back seat of the car.


9 posted on 02/12/2007 10:23:00 AM PST by TomGuy
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Any idea what kind of car? I know someone will know.


10 posted on 02/12/2007 10:25:20 AM PST by Paved Paradise
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To: NYer

yeah right- that looks liek southern California to me.


11 posted on 02/12/2007 10:26:23 AM PST by CottShop
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It seems to portray a nice car full of rich kids who came into the seamy side of life to gawk for a while.

It also says that these kids weren't worried about the Israelis possibly bombing THEM! Most Lebanese weren't worried about the Israeli bombing. They knew that, unlike Hezbollah, the Israelis were not targeting innocent civilians, press hype notwithstanding.

12 posted on 02/12/2007 10:27:54 AM PST by SuziQ
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And, if you follow the line of the windshield from the front of the picture to the front of the male driver, it appears that the car could NOT have passed some big, metal container without crushing it.


13 posted on 02/12/2007 10:28:18 AM PST by kitkat (The first step down to hell is to deny the existence of evil.)
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To: Paved Paradise

I'd guess mini cooper.


14 posted on 02/12/2007 10:29:20 AM PST by CJ Wolf
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To: NYer
"It's a picture you can keep looking at.

Only because you're wondering "Why did this rate anything??????"

15 posted on 02/12/2007 10:29:36 AM PST by GoldCountryRedneck ("God made liquor and God made brew, so ugly people could have sex too" - unknown)
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To: Paved Paradise

I was trying to figure that one out myself. Except for the palm in the background, it almost looks like Humboldt Park in the summer.


16 posted on 02/12/2007 10:29:57 AM PST by Chi-townChief
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Yup- probably excluded from the contest were Israeli photographers that captured Kassam rockets flying toward a market filled with mothers and young children, just before impact, showing the absolute horror on the folks faces as they realized they were about to be murdered in cold blood!,

or probably excluded from the contest were photos of body parts flying out a window as a bomb blows up in a Jewish wedding, and wedding guests running from the building only to run smack dab into a car bomber istting outside waiting to murder anyone who tried to escape!

Or,...


17 posted on 02/12/2007 10:31:40 AM PST by CottShop
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To: NYer

This pic looks like it could've been taken here in Detroit.


18 posted on 02/12/2007 10:32:14 AM PST by freedomson (Tagline comment removed by moderator)
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To: NYer

The women in the car (looks to be a Merc convertible) are fine examples of Lebanese pulchitrude.

With apologies to lazz,

I'd hit it early and often.


19 posted on 02/12/2007 10:32:18 AM PST by youngjim (Anger a liberal. Work hard. Succeed. Be happy.)
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Nice car, nice clothes. Seems they had a nice life till Hellbollah picked a fight in their 'hood.

Don't defend your way of life. Blame the US, blame Israel, then go party.

20 posted on 02/12/2007 10:38:44 AM PST by Doctor Raoul (What's the difference between the CIA and the Free Clinic? The Free Clinic knows how to stop leaks.)
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