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Lies, Damn Lies and Photoshop [image of Occupy Wall Street turnout faked]
TimParkinson.net ^ | 9/30/2011 | Tim Parkinson

Posted on 10/03/2011 10:51:20 PM PDT by Wayne07

A fellow skeptic (President of the Granite State Skeptics Travis Roy) recently posted a request on the Skeptoid mailing list regarding an image that has been making the rounds on Facebook. The image is an aerial shot of a supposedly huge turnout for the Occupy Wall St protest against corruption and greed. What appears to be thousands of protesters clog the streets of New York near the City Hall, with a caption stating:

Occupy Wall Street Turnout: My TV says nothing. The only thing I hear is its [sic] a small 100 person turn out. Turn off your TV. Ask your friends. Dont [sic] trust the media they lie!
After a request from Wettstein (and a warning from my hosting provider) I have removed his plagiarised propaganda image from my site. However the original can be found on Google Image Search.

My skeptical colleague saw this image and immediately smelled something fishy. Travis noticed that the image was an aerial photo of New York City Hall, whereas the protests were happening several blocks away at Liberty Square. He sent the image to the mailing list for other opinions. To my eyes the mass of protesters looked out of place, the crowd looked too uniform and dense to be real. I took the image into Photoshop to see if I could pick up any pattern to the image. My original thought was that they had used the clone tool to make a smaller group of people look much larger. Not being able to find anything obvious, I started to wonder where the background plate may have come from. Immediately Google Maps came to mind. I looked up the location featured in the image, and then I saw it: [...]

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: finance; losers; occupywallstreet
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Faked photo making the rounds:

debunked:


1 posted on 10/03/2011 10:51:27 PM PDT by Wayne07
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To: MrShoop

I was lurking at DU when someone posted this last week and they busted it immediately.


2 posted on 10/03/2011 10:58:40 PM PDT by Tex-Con-Man
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To: MrShoop
What do you expect? They're communists. They lie. It's what they do.

REFUSE. RESIST. Do NOT Submit! ★FREEDOM!★

3 posted on 10/03/2011 11:00:39 PM PDT by Neil E. Wright (An OATH is FOREVER OathKeeper III We are EVERYWHERE)
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To: MrShoop

Darn I keep getting a site overload message.


4 posted on 10/03/2011 11:04:51 PM PDT by chickadee
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To: Tex-Con-Man

No, no, no...
Don’t you understand how liberals think?

This represents VIRTUAL PROSESTORS, people who support them online, but can’t actually BE there!
(Seriously... This was the excuse on Daily Kos)

Kinda like Ron Paul Internet and straw poll supporters.


5 posted on 10/03/2011 11:16:40 PM PDT by tcrlaf (Election 2012: THE RAPTURE OF THE DEMOCRATS)
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To: MrShoop
OMG is there a therapist for the satellite that had to look at these things???

Living in the suburbs of Chicago is Heaven compared to being near these hippie freaks!!!

6 posted on 10/03/2011 11:29:31 PM PDT by Dengar01 (Dengar01 "Heartless" since 1983!!!)
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To: Tex-Con-Man

The comments after the blog post are astounding, especially the ones made by the loser who made the fake photos and attempts to justify his lies. Unbelievable.


7 posted on 10/04/2011 12:00:30 AM PDT by Pining_4_TX ( The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else. ~)
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To: MrShoop

Seeing this and recalling Obama’s birth certificate, it’s official... Democrats are terrible at Photoshop.


8 posted on 10/04/2011 12:12:24 AM PDT by MrTim29 (photoshop)
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To: Tex-Con-Man
The most obvious comparison of all is the shadows! Both photos shadow angles and lenths are identical. In other words, same day, and precisely the same time. One photo is an intentional fake.
9 posted on 10/04/2011 12:33:02 AM PDT by XHogPilot (I fear for US Constitution andour nation of citizens it protects.)
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To: MrShoop

I was in Zucutti Plaza last week for three days, just watching the madness. There were never more than 200 or so people there at any one time, and streets around it were running normally.


10 posted on 10/04/2011 1:26:31 AM PDT by ALASKA (CHANGE'n it back !!!!!!!)
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To: ALASKA

I live in downtown L.A. and have been reading the the Occupy LA Facebook page. While some have been claiming 1000s in attendance, some others in the group have been saying to tell the truth - it has been no more than 200 tops. I’ve driven by their camp out twice in the past couple of days. No more than 10-15 tents and no more than 50 or so people out there (in prime time daylight hours).


11 posted on 10/04/2011 1:54:42 AM PDT by Irishgirl
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To: MrShoop

Tea party members: Our cameras tell the truth. Post the truth.


12 posted on 10/04/2011 3:02:48 AM PDT by steveab (When was the last time someone tried to sell you a CO2 induced climate control system for your home?)
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To: MrShoop

That’s a good eye.


13 posted on 10/04/2011 3:21:14 AM PDT by wastedyears (Attaaack Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaatch)
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To: MrShoop
I zoomed in and found this....


14 posted on 10/04/2011 3:43:11 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: MrShoop

Was this a Reuters “photo”?


15 posted on 10/04/2011 3:46:29 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network ("Cut the Crap and Balance!" -- Governor Sarah Palin , Friday August 12 2011, Iowa State Fair)
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To: MrShoop
Destroy the crony relationship between Wall Street bakers and our corrupt Federal Government? Sure, I'm all for it.

But these losers aren't helping. At best, they serve as cheap, slapstick entertainment.

16 posted on 10/04/2011 4:05:15 AM PDT by RetroSexual
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To: Vaquero

Waldo is a worthless POS.


17 posted on 10/04/2011 4:08:44 AM PDT by bmwcyle (Obama is a Communist, a Muslim, and an illegal alien)
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To: MrShoop

Very good eyes! But, I wonder one thing. Why did the police say they arrested 700 protesters on the Brooklyn Bridge this past weekend if there were only a few hundred in the streets? Or, was that a different day?


18 posted on 10/04/2011 4:11:31 AM PDT by CitizenM (Obama's legacy will be to be remembered as The architect of the decline of the USA)
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To: ALASKA
wait till the weather gets really cold and these idiots pack up and go back to their Manhattan condo's worth a few million along with Rosanne Barr, Sarandon all staying in their heated mansions. These dopes have no clue I bet that wall street gave more money to zero. That wall street gives more to the left. They are asking in a sort of a way what the tea party is doing, stop bailing out companies let them fall. The radicals in the white house who are left overs from the 60's early 70's can't get it into their heads that times have changed, this is not Vietnam etc.
19 posted on 10/04/2011 4:24:50 AM PDT by manc (Marriage=1man+ 1 woman, Don't speak up, be a coward and the family, military etc will be destroyed)
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To: MrShoop

Bttt


20 posted on 10/04/2011 4:27:13 AM PDT by kalee (The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
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