23 Jul
Whoever is feeding Birfoonery to the tabloid is just cruel.
You see the “SHOCKING PROOF” right there on the front page? How embarrassing. That’s the Bomford Fake Kenyan Birth Certificate from last summer, exposed by its anonymous creator as a political hoax after Orly Taitz filed it in a court case.
Bomford himself told the Australian press:
DAVID JEFFREY BOMFORD: It’s little old me and my mum and everything else up there. Oh I definitely confirm that the birth certificate was mine. That was quite easy to see – my address, even the style of the birth certificate was an old South Australian one. So it’s quite easy to identify that it’s mine.
Hey, Globe, you got punk’d!
Even World Net Daily rejected this one.
06 Jul
Despite The Economist’s deceptive Photoshop:
There was President Obama on the cover of the June 19 issue of The Economist, standing alone on a Louisiana beach, head down, looking forlornly at the ground. …
The unaltered image, shot on May 28 by a Reuters photographer, Larry Downing, shows Adm. Thad W. Allen of the Coast Guard and Charlotte Randolph, a local parish president, standing alongside the president. But in the image that appeared on The Economist’s cover, Admiral Allen and Ms. Randolph had been scrubbed out, replaced by the blue water of the Gulf of Mexico.
When it comes to its own photographers, Reuters has stringent standards regarding photo editing. “Reuters has a strict policy against modifying, removing, adding to or altering any of its photographs without first obtaining the permission of Reuters and, where necessary, the third parties referred to,” Thomson Reuters said in a statement on Sunday.
New York Times
09 Jun
I was looking at the photo on the right the other day and idly wondering if Sarah Palin always had those cantaloupe-sized boobies. I was too lazy to look into this important matter, but fortunately there is Wonkette.
We should hear soon that nobody was supposed to notice, because that would be, you know, sexual sexist.
01 May
Nancy Pelosi magazine cover:
Laura Bush book cover:
Airbrushed? Obviously. Both of them. Who cares?
Drudge doesn’t seem to sense any irony in the fact that next to his Pelosi story is a picture of former First Lady Laura Bush’s book cover, which also looks less than 100 percent natural. ThinkProgress spoke to a couple of graphic designers who said that there definitely was some airbrushing done to the Laura Bush photograph. (View a larger version of the cover here.)
Additionally, in the past, conservatives have advocated more airbrushing of female politicians. They were outraged when Newsweek featured a picture of Sarah Palin that showed her natural features. So basically, airbrushing conservative women is acceptable, but airbrushing Democratic women is ridiculous.
While people debate the merits of airbrushing magazine shots, it’s a common practice and certainly not a scandal that says anything about the person being photographed.
Think Progress
27 Apr
Joseph Farah and World Nut Daily are pimping their Birfer billboards again:
WASHINGTON – It all started only one year ago, recalls WND Editor and Chief Executive Officer Joseph Farah.
That’s when he launched what became something of a national sensation and, he believes, rekindled the debate about Barack Obama’s constitutional eligibility for office – the billboard campaign that asks the question, “Where’s the birth certificate?”
The article refers to a billboard in Atlanta: “Last month Farah commissioned the latest new billboard in Atlanta.”
A photo runs with with the April 25 article:
Newest 'Where's the Birth Certificate?' billboard, in Atlanta
Farah announced the Atlanta billboard on March 7, using the same photo.
From a different angle, taken from a passing train and a little harder to read, the “Where’s the Birth Certificate?” billboard was there on March 8 and caught by the blogger Loren of Barackryphal:
But, according to a photo in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, this was the billboard in that location on April 22, two days before WND is implying theirs is still up in Atlanta:
Billboard on Whitehall Street in Atlanta proclaims the innocence of Scott Davis, who was convicted in 2006 for the 1996 murder of an Atlanta man.
16 Apr
I’ve started a new category this morning with “Dueling Photos: The Soccer Ball Conspiracy” but the category was actually inspired a couple of weeks ago when the President visited the troops in March. I just hadn’t gotten around to doing it.
As presented by Andrew Malcolm of the Los Angeles Times, comparing a troop visit by President Bush in South Korea with President Obama’s visit to Bagram Air Base in Kabul, to illustrate the difference in presidential style, intimate v. distant, and the troops’ reactions.
Notice the unsmiling male to Obama’s left:
Malcolm chose to juxtapose that photo with a crowd shot of Bush:
Rather than use a similar crowd shot of Obama:
Or even a smiling male to Obama’s left:
Or even a president obviously thrilled to be where he was:
16 Apr
Further to this post.
As presented on American Thinker to illustrate a “high crime” area of DC with a rusty wall: “Something is most definitely wrong. The President of the United States venturing out to a soccer game that didn’t exist in a high-crime area.”
As presented by Google street view, the rusty wall is a construction dumpster:
Credit: FARK
