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Vanity: Moveon.org doctors Thanksgiving photo of soldier
Movon.org and OpinionJournal ^ | Nov 29, 2005 | pomegranatejuice

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


TOPICS: Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: forgeries; libhoaxes; libmyths; libprop; moveon; moveonorg; opinionjournal; pants; realbadphotoshop; shorts; taranto; thanksgiving
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1 posted on 11/29/2005 8:47:33 PM PST by pomegranatejuice
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To: pomegranatejuice
The little video still shows him wearing shorts, but the picture he has pants!

Funny stuff abounds, the lies are almost Mad Magazine funny.
2 posted on 11/29/2005 8:52:19 PM PST by TexasTransplant (NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSET)
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To: pomegranatejuice

They have got to be total idiots.


3 posted on 11/29/2005 8:52:46 PM PST by Sonny M ("oderint dum metuant")
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To: pomegranatejuice

I see they use the Dan Rather way of authenticating pictures....they make it up.

welcome to Fr


4 posted on 11/29/2005 8:53:17 PM PST by wallcrawlr (http://www.bionicear.com)
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To: pomegranatejuice

the pic I could see still shows them wearing british fatigue patterns and undershirts


5 posted on 11/29/2005 8:53:43 PM PST by aft_lizard (What does G-d look like then if we evolved from nothing?See Genisis Ch 1:26-27)
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To: Sonny M

Moron.org


6 posted on 11/29/2005 8:54:15 PM PST by REDWOOD99
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To: Sonny M

This is another reason I call them MoreOn.org


7 posted on 11/29/2005 8:55:56 PM PST by JRios1968 ("Cogito, ergo FReep": I think, therefore I FReep.)
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To: pomegranatejuice

And welcome to FR


8 posted on 11/29/2005 8:56:20 PM PST by JRios1968 ("Cogito, ergo FReep": I think, therefore I FReep.)
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To: pomegranatejuice

F'ing pinheads.

Rot in hell, Soros, you lying b@stard.


9 posted on 11/29/2005 8:58:13 PM PST by msf92497 (Uh Oh)
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To: pomegranatejuice
Holy crap, great find!

Busted again!

Welcome to Free Republic!

10 posted on 11/29/2005 8:59:25 PM PST by andyandval
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To: pomegranatejuice

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.


11 posted on 11/29/2005 9:03:13 PM PST by lastmanstanding (I had but one prayer to God: "Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." He made it so. - Voltaire)
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To: backhoe

Paging backhoe, this one has the potential to be a classic.


12 posted on 11/29/2005 9:04:03 PM PST by NonValueAdded (The honorable Richard Cheney, X man!!!)
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To: pomegranatejuice
Here's the original

Here's the photoshopped one


13 posted on 11/29/2005 9:05:13 PM PST by andyandval
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To: lastmanstanding

The ones with Pom Poms are scottish highlanders I believe.


14 posted on 11/29/2005 9:31:52 PM PST by aft_lizard (What does G-d look like then if we evolved from nothing?See Genisis Ch 1:26-27)
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To: Sonny M

"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


15 posted on 11/29/2005 9:39:45 PM PST by VOA
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To: andyandval; Buckhead

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?


16 posted on 11/29/2005 9:51:19 PM PST by VOA
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To: pomegranatejuice
Have these people at moveon nothing better to do with their time?

-- my thoughts, Trever Online
17 posted on 11/29/2005 9:52:18 PM PST by precedence (Liberalism::Not a Family Value)
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To: pomegranatejuice

link to earlier thread on this topic:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1530811/posts


18 posted on 11/29/2005 9:54:00 PM PST by VOA
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To: pomegranatejuice

bump for publicity


19 posted on 11/29/2005 10:02:52 PM PST by VOA
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To: andyandval

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.


20 posted on 11/29/2005 10:05:59 PM PST by Billthedrill
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