Strange Anomalies in the Famous Situation Room Photo

American Thinker ^ | 5/9/2012 | Mara Zebest

[GregNH]

Recently, the MSM were shocked by the news that a girlfriend in Obama's Dreams book was a composite. For many, such news comes as no surprise. The concept of a composite presidency certainly comes as no shock as someone who participated as a contributor and authored evidence presented at Sheriff Joe Arpaio's press conference on Obama's long-form birth certificate report. On the heels of these events -- and taking advantage of an anniversary of the bin Laden raid -- are recent campaign tactics to politicize the killing of Osama bin Laden. With the re-emergence of another round of gutsy call faux heroism regarding Obama's decision, it may also be a good time to revisit the famous "Situation Room" photo released by the White House. Is it Photoshopped? Like everything else Obama does to make a political point, is the photo a composite as well?

Beyond the obvious blurred photo in front of Hillary Clinton, are there other hints of manipulation? A Swedish paper makes the observation that Obama looks like a midget in the chair despite his six-foot-plus stature. When comparing the size of the surrounding people in the photo to Obama, the photo certainly gives the impression that Obama's head (or possibly the entire body) was placed into the photo and resized a tad too small. And as a side-note observation: why is everyone in the room dressed in work attire -- as if they went to work that day -- except for Obama?

Compare the size of surrounding heads in the "Situation Room" photo to the size of Obama's head. Even if you use a perspective argument -- in which objects appear smaller at a greater distance -- then why are the faces behind Obama still larger?

[GraceG]

Well his BC is a “Composite” so I guess we have the composite President...

[econjack]

And as a side-note observation: why is everyone in the room dressed in work attire -- as if they went to work that day -- except for Obama?

There's simple explanation: Obama doesn't work.

[PGR88]

That’s hilarious!

My only complaint with the photo from day 1 - why is the PRESIDENT sitting in the corner? Isn’t there any protocol where the damn LEADER OF THE COUNTRY is given a seat at the head or middle of the table in all cases?

[GOPJ]

Considering that our NSA and CIA could have done this photo right - to the point that NO ONE would think it a fake - the real question is, who doctored the picture? And for what purpose?

[RightFighter]

I did the same thing, but I left Obama's head sized the same throughout. The one thing I can glean from this is that Obama and Billy Daley appear to me to be just about exactly the same distance from the camera. Daley's head is much bigger than Obama's.

I don't put much into what the guy said about the girl in the back of the room. Those are her hands, crossed over each other. Her left arm has a watch on the wrist. The right arm has a bracelet and there are some rings on her fingers.

[piroque]

[RightOnTheBorder]

I don’t know what is worse for Obama. If they photoshopped him in when he wasn’t their, it is yet another bald faced lie from the white hut. If he truly was their, in his golf attire, and clearly the least important person in the room it damages his “I killed Osama” theme.

[GOPJ]

“A Swedish paper makes the observation that Obama looks like a midget in the chair despite his six-foot-plus stature.”

One more reason the New York Times and Washington Post are crappy dem controlled newspapers... This fake should have been exposed by an American newspaper...

[GregNH]

I heard from one of those insider reports, (insert grain of salt),That he was informed of the assassination and for his political benefit photoshopped the pic.

[GeorgeWashingtonsGhost]

Stay tuned.. I am going to post my own observation of this photo that no one has discussed and it will CONVINCE you that this photo is forged. I JUST noticed this upon my own inspection and was taken aback.. I will post it shortly.

[layman]

The chair-rail height wood paneling, which appears to go all the way around the room in the other photo, ends with Obama’s chair in the famous situation room photo. I wonder why.

[faucetman]

All the examples cited of photoshop seem to have likely explanations or are just a matter of perspective.

BUT, the one thing that always has bothered me is Obama himself. (The Obama in the corner)

Can you imagine how this went down?

The president enters. (Hail to the chief is either played or it isn't). Certainly EVERYONE jumps to their feet. One of them says “Mr. President, please sit here in the corner, in this kiddie chair”. C’Mon MAN!

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

LMAO!

[Drill Thrawl]

Of course it was photoshopped. We all know that Obama was personally laying the smackdown in Abattobad at the time of this picture.

[razorback-bert]

ginp

[GeorgeWashingtonsGhost]

Upon my own close inspection, I created my own Photoshop analysis to illustrate that Obama's head was 'cut and pasted' into this photo:

[ltc8k6]

They are probably explained by the use of a wide angle lens, I think.

[wiggen]

Okay i can’t stand the idiot. This is what i come up with. He is likely in a smaller chair. We don’t see any part of the chair as we do in the gentleman next to him. That leads me to conclude that the bigger chair is part of the normal furniture in the room. The chair that Obama is in is likely a folding chair placed there at the last minute,well after the whole thing started.

[crosshairs]

Okay i can’t stand the idiot. This is what i come up with. He is likely in a smaller chair.

It seems to me the king should have the largest chair.

[Jedidah]

There’s another picture of Obama from that day, ostensibly from when he came off the golf course. I saw it recently in a story about his annoying “victory lap” on the anniversary of the assassination.

In it, he’s wearing another layer, a green golf shirt, looks like maybe it’s over the white shirt. So did he shed it? Or is the white shirt in the official photo from another time?

The whole thing is fishy.