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Did China's state news agency forge a photo? (Picture: photoshopped Hu Jintao photo-op)
France24 ^ | 07/24/08

Posted on 07/26/2008 12:31:07 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

Did China's state news agency forge a photo?

China media photojournalism

A Chinese blogger has exposed the official news agency Xinhua for what appears to be a forged image. He noticed that two of the people present in the photo look remarkably similar.

The photo was taken during a visit from President Hu Jintao to the official Olympics site in Qingdao, where the watersports contests will take place. The site has been under the spotlight since it was overrun by a dangerous and polluting algae not long before the opening of the games. Hu Jintao came to the site to show the local press that the situation was under control, and to encourage athletes and organisers to double their efforts in the remaining weeks before the competition starts.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2008olympics; boycottchina; boycottolympics; china; hujintao; olympics; photoshop; xinhua
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To: HAL9000
Maybe it was someone singing “Hu Let The Dogs Out.”
21 posted on 07/26/2008 4:33:47 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
I don't understand why this is such a big deal. Don't all Chinese people look the same?

/ducking for cover/

Modern Chinese proverb (not really): "You are truly one in a million . . . so if you live in China, there are more than a thousand people just like you!"

22 posted on 07/26/2008 5:34:09 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (I'm out on the outskirts of nowhere . . . with ghosts on my trail, chasing me there.)
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To: compound w

Hi ChiCom, looks like you’ve already infected this thread. No propaganda this time around? Or are you merely playing innocent so that you can get an then give the name of the blogger to your PLA masters?


23 posted on 07/26/2008 6:20:57 AM PDT by indcons
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To: BJungNan; MARKUSPRIME; TigersEye; Virginia Ridgerunner; Army Air Corps; HungarianGypsy; jmc813; ...

“Are we sure it is not two different people?”

LOL

Hi BJ - long time.

Hey folks - look who’s back!!!!! compound w has a fellow traveller now.


24 posted on 07/26/2008 6:24:48 AM PDT by indcons
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To: monkapotamus

LOL - Looter Guy sure does get around.


25 posted on 07/26/2008 6:30:30 AM PDT by Allegra (Ain't it grand? I'm back in the sand...)
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To: HAL9000

You are right, just to left of lady in red an image was ‘erased’ and look to the far left, there is an image of a man who looks like the man in the foreground in the blue shirt or is that Harry Reid?


26 posted on 07/26/2008 6:33:38 AM PDT by RetSignman (DEMSM: "If you tell a big enough lie, frequently enough, it becomes the truth")
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To: Caipirabob

I read somewhere that if twins are born, the government will not bother with you. Some people use fertility pills to have several babies at once as a way to get around the “one child” policy.


27 posted on 07/26/2008 7:34:45 AM PDT by Fishing-guy
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To: TigerLikesRooster
They are actually Chang and Eng, the original Siamese Twins, separated, alive and well....and on exhibition at public events in the Glorious Peeeple's Republic.

Leni

28 posted on 07/26/2008 7:39:20 AM PDT by MinuteGal (Stay Home or vote Barr for Obamination, more Taxation, Regulation, Litigation and Ginzburgization)
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To: Fishing-guy

OH, that’s good to hear, and a big relief - Thanks!


29 posted on 07/26/2008 7:55:56 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: monkapotamus

OMGGG MONK Looter guy hanging out with Mitt Romey why LOL!

I thought nice respectable African American businessman like Looter guy wouldn’t be hanging out with trash like MITT


30 posted on 07/26/2008 10:28:20 AM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: indcons; compound w; BJungNan

Talk about two people actually being one. compound w has been posting the same propaganda to me that BJungNan has almost verbatim.


31 posted on 07/26/2008 11:27:09 AM PDT by TigersEye (Drill or get off the Hill. ... call Nancy Pelosi @ 202 - 225 - 0100)
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To: TigersEye

TigersEye, good to see you again. How goes it my friend? BJN


32 posted on 07/26/2008 11:38:51 AM PDT by BJungNan
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Hey, at least they are adding people - unlike Stalin’s Soviet Union, where executed enemies of the state were retouched out of official photographs.


33 posted on 07/26/2008 11:42:49 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ("One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word." -- Robert Heinlein)
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To: BJungNan

Very good.


34 posted on 07/26/2008 12:30:08 PM PDT by TigersEye (Drill or get off the Hill. ... call Nancy Pelosi @ 202 - 225 - 0100)
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To: TigersEye; BJungNan

BJ probably came back to the forum under the express orders of the PLA Comrade-in-Chief in its region. The new trolls have been exposed because of their blatant (and untrue) ChiCom propaganda and BJ has been sent here to quell the dissent.


35 posted on 07/26/2008 1:37:53 PM PDT by indcons
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