[Sloth]

Soon, photographic evidence of anything will become worthless. And after that, video.

[leadpenny]

I'm catching up for the day. You referred to two FReepers. Did you mean the ones I addressed?

Which photo is fake and which is real?

[alisasny]

This is how we are going to ruin these stories about Kerry. Sometimes its best to sit back and let it happen on its own.
It is clear the democratic party is emploding and they dont need much help from us right now.

If this would have happened the left media would have been able to say the radical right is not credible etc.

Example: instead of letting CBS air the Reagan movie a controversy was started by the right and CBS dropped the movie and we are accused of censorship. Had the movie aired as planned CBS would have finally been exposed to a massive audience for its bias.

You may not agree with me but there is a reason the VRWC is believed by many.

[John H K]

I'm a bit confused, which Kerry-Fonda photo is fake, and which one is real?

The one where you can only see part of Fonda's body and not her face and it's black and white is "real" and the one with Fonda sitting down looking up with Kerry in the background is fake?

[Vermonter]

Ping!

[holymoly]

Where's this photo? And who posted it? Moby?

[PetroniusMaximus]

No excuse here, but anyone in publishing should have spotted the fake immediately.

[xJones]

Thank goodness Raoul made a phone call, so Kristinn just got a call from somebody who is a longtime press friend of FR

Good work, you guys.

[Congressman Billybob]

Please be specific. I have seen three photographs here. One is Kerry and Fonda sitting in the audience at the Valley Forge Rally for Vietnam Veterans Against the War. This one is apparently legit. The second is one that was created, with usual excellence, by Registered. This one bears his name, and was credited to him on FR.

The third photograph I have seen shows Fonda at the microphone at that same Rally, and Kerry in the nearground holding a sheaf of papers, apparently either about to speak next or having just spoken. No one else appears in that photograph. This one I had speculated should exist in the morgue of a paper in the metro-Philly area, or in the files of the photographers who covered that Rally.

Since Fonda provided heavy financing for the Valley Forge Rally, the previous Detroit "testimony" from "claimed" Vietnam vets, and the movie, F.T.A., and Kerry was head of VVAW, it is hard to believe that they were not together at some point either when the money changed hands, or speeches were being made. So a photo like that should exist.

So, which is the apparent "fake photo" you're referring to? Is it the one that Registered created, and clearly labeled as his creation? Or is it that third photo, showing Fonda and Kerry on the stage together in Valley Forge? For those of us who have been following this subject closely, pkease state which you mean.

Congressman Billybob

Click here, then click the blue CFR button, to join the anti-CFR effort (or visit the "Hugh & Series, Critical & Pulled by JimRob" thread). Don't delay. Do it now.

[Flyer]

I don't know if anyone else did, too, but I let NewsMax know of the fake, and it was down within minutes of my email.

[TAP ONLINE]

I saw the Post: Hanoi Jane on Paul Zahn Now!
It had a fake picture. I smelled a rat. I book marked and when I went back it was gone. Fine with me it should have been deleted if it was false. However, what concerns me is the fact that it (Post number 44) was not purged or replaced with "deleted by moderator". Instead it was replaced with another picture (a fine photo of Ted) and numbered 44, as if the first picture was never there. I wrote a reply that the thing smelled like a scene from 1984.
Is it a policy of FR to replace posts already posted with more acceptable ones or was this an aberration? It looked like a cover up and that makes us look worse than the post itself. Delete it, ban it but do not pretend it never existed.

Not aimed at you,Madstrider

[TaxRelief]

So why didn't anyone care when all those Rachel Corrie/ Bulldozer photos were faked?

[Spiff]

Registered made it. He admitted to it. He did it intentionally. He knew of the potential embarassment. He didn't seem to care.

I like most of what Registered does (well, except for the anti-McClintock stuff he did) but I'm disappointed in this behavior as it was potentially very damaging to Free Republic, to the GOP, and to President Bush's campaign.

I did my best yesterday afternoon/evening to get the word out that the pic was fake. Finally, the Admin Moderator jumped in and started deleting posts containing the fake photo and then Registered (for the second time) changed the photo that the link pointed to.

I've now seen the photo posted on two different websites as authentic (one added a "Fake Photo" qualifier later) and I heard that NewsMax published the fake photo as authentic and later pulled it.

I think Registered owes FreeRepublic an apology and needs to promise not to pull this crap again.

[Britton J Wingfield]

Flooding the internet with fake photos would be a great way to discredit the real one. I hope that people can restrain themselves.

[veronica]

Here's one I found of Kerry and Jane Fonda. Do you think it's a fake??

[Porterville]

FreeRepublic is Strong!!!

[Eva]

Thanks for warning.

[abner]

[nutmeg]

Thank goodness Raoul made a phone call, so Kristinn just got a call from somebody who is a longtime press friend of FR who was about to go nationwide with the "2nd photo" story. You've got no idea how close this was to being a train wreck.

THANK YOU to everyone who managed to stop this potential train wreck! I was worried about that photo... it was too good to be true.

[yonif]

Is the picture with Fonda talking on the mic and Kerry next to her fake?