[nickcarraway]

[Genoa]

Why try? He wouldn't have been holding his mouth like this if there were no cigar. Looks like a stroke victim.

[library user]

Ban nudity from museums. I can’t stand nudity. Especially fat naked paintings.

[Faith]

How ridiculous. It would be like showing Obama without his teleprompter.

[ozzymandus]

“England is a fag country”-Archie Bunker

[donna]

For those who believe the truth just isn’t good enough.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Years ago in Oklahoma there was also an attempt to airbrush out the pipe shown in the paintings of Sequoiah, the inventor of the Chrokee alphabet.

This reeks too much of Russian and Chinese commie propaganda in which various people disappear in the official photos over time.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

This is the kind of stuff Stalin did.

Kill one of your political rivals, then airbrush him from state photographs.

[jesseam]

If that phony in the White House had anything to say about it he would have removed Churchill’s image totally. When he returned the bust of Churchill which was NOT his to give away, he insulted one of our most valued allies. What a f—n loser we have been saddled with. I trust he would not have returned a bust of Stalin.

[libertarian27]

Might as well airbrush his signature “V” for Victory hand gesture too and call it a day.....

[texanyankee]

Seems to me that this has also taken place with FDR...

Sickening.

[SES1066]

Nothing different from what has happened here in the US. I reference the Washington DC Monument to FDR, completed in the Clinton Administration. According a Washington Post story of the dedication;

The memorial has simmered in controversy over whether it had bowed to "political correctness." Animal rights activists were credited with keeping the trademark fox fur off the statue of Eleanor Roosevelt; anti-smoking activists were credited with having FDR's trademark cigarette holder removed.

There is history and then there is 'adjusted history' according to ones biases and prejudices! Remember that history is written by the victors, even if they are biased academics or polemics writing years after the fact!

[WKUHilltopper]

That’s just sickening...

[southernnorthcarolina]

Incredible, and, more to the point, dishonest. Newspaper photographers and editors have been fired for altering photos.

I say this as someone who hates, absolutely hates, cigars. If someone lights one up in my presence, I leave. But cigars were part of Sir Winston's profile, and the fact that they've become politically or medically incorrect does not excuse photographic revisionism.

Another photo of Churchill sans stogie has an interesting background:

Churchill without his cigar

This photo wasn't airbrushed. Churchill really didn't have his cigar in the photo, because the photographer had snatched it from him an instant before he snapped the pic -- hence, the angry scowl.

[backwoods-engineer]

Yeah, and they’d probably edit out “keep buggering on”, too. Sorry, Brits, for the swear, but that’s what Churchill said, as I recall.