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Spot the difference: Suddenly Churchill is a non-smoker... how today's airbrushing...
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 14th June 2010

Posted on 06/14/2010 4:08:41 PM PDT by naturalman1975

The face is instantly familiar, the two-fingered salute unmistakable.

But are these actually the same photograph of Sir Winston Churchill?

In the original photograph the war leader has his cigar gripped firmly in the corner of his mouth.

But in the other image - currently greeting visitors to a London museum - his favourite smoke has been digitally extinguished.



Uniform, victory salute and cigar: Winston Churchill in the 1940s and now without his trademark smoke

It seems the man who steered Britain through the most dangerous period of its recent history may have fallen victim to the modern curse of political correctness.

Last night the question of who removed the cigar and when was something of a mystery.

The Winston Churchill's Britain at War Experience, in South-East London, confessed to being astonished to discover that the image may have been doctored.

Which is a little embarrassing for the staff at the charitable trust, because the photograph features on a giant poster hanging above the museum's main door.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: nannystate
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You can't do things like this. History is history, and you deliberately corrupt any of it, you will eventually corrupt all of it.

Not to mention, it makes him look like a stroke victim, which considering his health in later life is very inappropriate (he came back from stroke to be Prime Minister again.)

1 posted on 06/14/2010 4:08:41 PM PDT by naturalman1975
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. . . and FDR could walk, too. And, oh, yeah, he was faithful to Eleanor.


2 posted on 06/14/2010 4:09:54 PM PDT by chickadee
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To: naturalman1975

Disgusting. There’s nothing wrong with a good cigar from time to time.


3 posted on 06/14/2010 4:10:15 PM PDT by ottbmare (I could agree wth you, but then we'd both be wrong.)
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To: naturalman1975

“My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.” - W.C.


4 posted on 06/14/2010 4:11:01 PM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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Liberals do this kind of thing all the time.
5 posted on 06/14/2010 4:12:20 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: naturalman1975

Lesser known, General Curtis Lemay was a cigar smoker. I saluted him while he was in uniform with the ever present cigar in his mouth, he returned the salute, not bothering to remove the cigar.


6 posted on 06/14/2010 4:13:18 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (No Romney,No Mark Kirk (Illinois), not now, not ever!)
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To: naturalman1975

How very Soviet of them. Did you ever see a book called “The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin’s Russia,” by David King? Too bad we are following in their footsteps.


7 posted on 06/14/2010 4:13:55 PM PDT by La Lydia
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Disgusting. There’s nothing wrong with a good cigar from time to time.

I was just about to light up a Churchill with my glass of Syrah.

8 posted on 06/14/2010 4:14:11 PM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys: Can't fly, can't ski, can't drive, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best.)
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9 posted on 06/14/2010 4:14:44 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: La Lydia

Look up.


10 posted on 06/14/2010 4:15:15 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: Graybeard58

If you saluted General LeMay then Graybeard is an very appropriate tag!


11 posted on 06/14/2010 4:15:29 PM PDT by ops33 (Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
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To: ottbmare

Following a same train of thought, this must mean that in 60 years, at least in pictures, Larry Sinclair will be proudly united with his lover.


12 posted on 06/14/2010 4:15:35 PM PDT by SanFranDan
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To: naturalman1975

Unbelievable!

There are some pictures of FDR without his cigarette holder, but very few of Churchill without a cigar in his mouth or hand. The cigars that Churchill smoked were Julietas (now commonly referred to as Churchills), they typically take between 60 and 90 minutes to smoke and he smoked between 15 and 20 each day, so unless he was eating or bathing he ALWAYS had one lit.

The only thing more absurd would be showing Bogart without a cigarette.


13 posted on 06/14/2010 4:16:59 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: martin_fierro

Ping.


14 posted on 06/14/2010 4:17:41 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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15 posted on 06/14/2010 4:18:11 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: naturalman1975

Typical of the Stalinist’s in the media.


16 posted on 06/14/2010 4:18:32 PM PDT by Mr. Jazzy ("I AM JIM THOMPSON and moderates make me PUKE!!!")
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To: naturalman1975

Shades of Winston Smith and the Memory Hole.


17 posted on 06/14/2010 4:19:22 PM PDT by NaughtiusMaximus (Mexico presents a more profound threat to our territorial integrity than Germany or Japan ever did.)
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To: wagglebee

What gets me about this is I teach history to teenage boys.

If a boy ever asked me about Churchill smoking, I’d simply point out that this was in an era when the dangers of smoking weren’t very well understood and when most men smoked.

There’s no reason to take this out.


18 posted on 06/14/2010 4:20:38 PM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: Jewbacca

Yes. That picture reinforces my theory that Stalin had Kirov killed.


19 posted on 06/14/2010 4:21:41 PM PDT by La Lydia
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To: naturalman1975

The Ministry of Truth has decreed that smoking is doubleplus ungood.


20 posted on 06/14/2010 4:22:32 PM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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