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Exposing Gateway Pundit’s Dishonesty: He Altered a CT Scan Image to Trick His Readers
little green footballs ^ | 8/21/14 | Charles Johnson

Posted on 08/21/2014 8:48:23 PM PDT by Nachum

Here’s another follow-up to my article about Jim Hoft’s dishonest tactics in promoting his bogus claim that officer Darren Wilson suffered a fractured eye socket in a purported struggle with teenager Michael Brown.

As I pointed out in the earlier piece, Hoft posted a stock image of a CT scan of a fractured eye socket, but apparently erased the words “UNIV OF IOWA” from his copy of the image.

Well, thanks to LGF readers @franklinftw and @loveheylola, I can now remove the word “apparently” from that description, because we have proof that Hoft (or someone who works with him) did indeed alter that CT scan, almost certainly to mislead people into believing it was an image of officer Darren Wilson. (And he was successful in fooling many right wingers, including Ann Coulter.)

A cached version of Hoft’s page at the Internet Archive Wayback Machine captured at 18:08:39 (UTC) on August 19th shows that when Hoft first posted the image, it did contain the words “UNIV OF IOWA.” Here’s a screenshot of the Internet Archive’s cached version:

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KEYWORDS: dishonesty; gateway; pundits; scan
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Waiting for Jim Hoft to respond. Should be fun.

Pass the popcorn.

1 posted on 08/21/2014 8:48:23 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

LGF went lefty about two or three years ago, didn’t they?


2 posted on 08/21/2014 8:50:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: Nachum

I assumed it was a stock photo when I first saw it - how would he actually have the real medical imagery? But that said, it is a little shady, and confuses the issue. Doesn’t matter if a bone was broken or not if he got hit in the face.


3 posted on 08/21/2014 8:50:53 PM PDT by Wayne07
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To: Nachum

Well, is the Ferguson Police officer’s eye socket broken or is it not?


4 posted on 08/21/2014 8:51:16 PM PDT by Rembrandt (Part of the 51% who pay Federal taxes)
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To: Rembrandt

Fake, but accurate. (rolling eyes)


5 posted on 08/21/2014 8:52:09 PM PDT by Shimmer1 (Nothing says you are sad that someone died like looting local places of business!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Charles Johnson needs to be in a “home”.


6 posted on 08/21/2014 8:52:25 PM PDT by acapesket
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To: Nachum

I only saw the one with the U Iowa removed.

It did seem as if it were a scan from the officer. But there was a label that said it was a stock image.


7 posted on 08/21/2014 8:52:26 PM PDT by ifinnegan
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Well, is the Ferguson Police officer’s eye socket broken or is it not?

No definitive report on it. We only have a CNN story saying it is not broken. It matters not to the need of the police to defend themselves from a fist to the head.

8 posted on 08/21/2014 8:54:43 PM PDT by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: MrShoop

Posting a real image would be a HIPPA violation and big trouble for someone, unless the officer gave permission for its use.


9 posted on 08/21/2014 8:55:18 PM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: acapesket

I used to be a member on LGF a few years ago, but suddenly it veered of in a strange direction.


10 posted on 08/21/2014 8:55:20 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing! Don't let anybody touch that thing! I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that th)
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To: Nachum

If it was the article I read I didn’t get the impression
it was the scan of the officer’s eye. It was presented as an example of what such an injury could look like. Seemed clear enough to me- was anyone confused?


11 posted on 08/21/2014 8:55:46 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Charles went off his “rocker”, or so I heard.


12 posted on 08/21/2014 8:56:08 PM PDT by machogirl
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To: Nachum

Much ado about nothing.


13 posted on 08/21/2014 8:58:30 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

CJ developed a weird, hostile, and militant position on evolution a while back and his site went downhill from there. You either bought into evolution in total as it is currently understood, or you got banned.

It got weird.


14 posted on 08/21/2014 9:02:15 PM PDT by Noamie
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To: Nachum

BTW Charles, it didn’t trick me. I knew it was not the officer’s, it was an example.


15 posted on 08/21/2014 9:05:25 PM PDT by machogirl
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To: machogirl

He obviously needs to up his meds. Good grief.


16 posted on 08/21/2014 9:06:58 PM PDT by Shelayne
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To: Nachum

LGF is hard left garbage.


17 posted on 08/21/2014 9:07:02 PM PDT by Dagnabitt (Amnesty is Treason. Its agents are Traitors.)
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To: Noamie

And didn’t LGF so all anti-Jew, too? I used to go there many years ago but it got boring so I stopped visiting the site. Then I heard all sorts of stories about how insane it got and I was glad that I had lost my old login info. I don’t even remember what handle I used to use.


18 posted on 08/21/2014 9:07:20 PM PDT by Two Kids' Dad (((( ))))
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To: Nachum

Says “file photo” on the ‘wayback’ image he posted of the page...
LGFB and it’s readers apparently are zealous defenders of idiots.

“Idiot rights”- the next big human rights battleground?


19 posted on 08/21/2014 9:07:28 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: machogirl

Yeah, he swings lefty now on most matters.


20 posted on 08/21/2014 9:12:29 PM PDT by batterycommander (We will likely still be Majors, passed over twice, sitting in dimly-lit offices in the Pentagon.)
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