Here's the photoshopped one
Posted on 11/29/2005 8:47:32 PM PST by pomegranatejuice
An earlier thread linked to an OpinionJournal article which pointed out that moveon.org had mistaken British troops for American troops. They noted that one of the soldiers was wearing shorts (which are not part of a normal combat uniform).
Now, moveon appears to have doctored the above mentioned photo.
The current moveon.org link now shows the exact photo as before, but now the soldier is mysteriously wearing pants. If you enlarge the photo, it looks like he is actually wearing one pant leg which covers both his legs.
Here is the moveon link with the soldier wearing pants: https://political.moveon.org/donate/thanksgiving.html
Here is the moveon link to the movie which contains the same photo of the soldier, but wearing shorts. https://political.moveon.org/donate/thanksgiving-QT.html
Here is the opinion journal article where he is wearing shorts: http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110007612
They have got to be total idiots.
I see they use the Dan Rather way of authenticating pictures....they make it up.
welcome to Fr
the pic I could see still shows them wearing british fatigue patterns and undershirts
Moron.org
This is another reason I call them MoreOn.org
And welcome to FR
F'ing pinheads.
Rot in hell, Soros, you lying b@stard.
Busted again!
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There was a British guy that I used to see all the time at Camp Victory who cut his DCU jacket and trousers into shorts and used to walk around in his tennis shoes. He would also wear his little beret with the pom-pom on top.
I think he must have been the head of the entire Royal Military. He looked like something out of a Monty Python skit.
Paging backhoe, this one has the potential to be a classic.
Here's the photoshopped one
The ones with Pom Poms are scottish highlanders I believe.
"They have got to be total idiots"
Not really.
They think they are borrowing from The Master of doctored images,
their own Stalin.
They must think this book of examples of Stalin's images doctored by
Stalin is a textbook for MoveOn's image presentation!
The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russia (Hardcover)
by David King
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805052941/qid=1133329023/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-8629046-2500027?s=books&v=glance&n=283155
Although it's hard for me to tell from the small size of the video-caps,
does it look like someone has just duplicated the image of the pants of
the soldier standing to the left of the "shorts" soldier in the original image?
And then just pasted a copy of those pants onto the "shorts" soldier
for the "MoveOn New and Improved" image?
I wonder if this new image was faxed in from Kinkos in Abiliene, TX.
Did a certain somebody got a partying gift copy of Photoshop as they were
ejected from their prestigious national TV news post?
Where is buckhead when you need him?
link to earlier thread on this topic:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1530811/posts
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It's obvious that what the faker did was to copy the pantlegs of the fellow in the rear onto the one in the front. The camouflage pattern is identical. That's pretty pathetic, really.
If one examines the "before" and "after" of the chap in shorts, the cammies that he suddenly sports appear to have an identical pattern with the ones he stands next to.
I've never seen identical camouflage patterns in military field uniforms.
Good catch!
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"It's obvious that what the faker did was to copy the pantlegs of
the fellow in the rear onto the one in the front. "
That's what I thought I was seeing.
Maybe my aging eyes aren't shot just yet!
thanks...now we're up to three of us that detect the nature of this photoshop fraud
Who the hell cares, pj? You don't, or you would have proffered by now. Pizz off, you pomi-azzhat...
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bttt!
Welcome to FR
Those are almost certainly Brits. Probably used it to get the outdoors chowline (looks more like suffering than the indoor dining facilities most of our troops use). "The Republicans are eating Thanksgiving Dinner at home in comfort. Our troops are in the hot Iraqi sun"). Probably got the idea from "military experts" like Kerry and Murtha.
Everyone! Save these pics to your hard drives before they dissappear!
Thanks for the catch, pomegranatejuice. And welcome to FR!
When I was on active duty, I was a Republican.
Did they kick us all out of the U.S. Armed Forces?
Good point, but you're obviously not thinking like a moveon.org type, or the misguided souls who actually believe them.
LOL! Not just the same pattern, but the same wrinkles!
Aw, ya beat me to it...
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Send the link to Drudge with the headline "MOVEON.ORG caught PHOTOSHOPPING British troops into US troops for ad"
Stalin had people who would have been smart enough to know leaving the video unchanged, while alter a photo of the video is stupidity.
Even worse, they are still wearing british fatigues.
One question, are the brits in Iraq celebrating thanksgiving?
LOL, at first they had the photo (not doctored) then when people said that the soldiers were not Americans, they photo-shopped it and changed the uniforms, alas for them the faces and positions of all the people were the same as the original.
The MoveOn folks are such liars...
Will the New York Times or the Washington Post cover this? Don't hold your breath. As Rush would say, it didn't work for Mary Jo and it won't work here...
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