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Shirtless Obama Photo Staged?
Washingtn Times ^ | 12-23-08 | Jennifer Harper

Posted on 12/23/2008 9:05:13 PM PST by malkee

Remember those staged photos of Bill and Hillary Clinton dancing on the beach once upon a time? You have to wonder. The Obama 'pec' photos were taken on a public beach. Some accounts said the photographer had approval to take those shots. All of a sudden, the bad buzz about links between Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and Barack Obama was gone for a while, replaced by good buzz about presidential pecs," noted Tim Graham of the Media Research Center.

"There's some bathing-suit bias, too. When beauty queen photos of [Alaska Republican Gov.] Sarah Palin surfaced during the presidential campaign, the press coverage was negative. And you can be sure if positive images of President Bush in a bathing suit had appeared sometime in 2000, the press would have cast suspicions on them as a staged photo-op," Mr. Graham said.

Mr. Obama's public pin-up shot is not his first. A photo of him emerging from the surf - a little chunkier but still agreeable - made global headlines shortly before he announced his White House run in 2007. Such accidentally-on-purpose moments could be the hallmark of a very deft public official.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; Political Humor/Cartoons; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: agenda; bho2008; birthcertificate; creep; creepy; gaydar; hopeless; metrosexual; obama; obamahopeless; obamatransitionfile; obci; shirtless; thecreep; transitionfiles
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To: DBrow

Yeah but Punin actually pulls off looking like someone you don’t want to mess with.

Obama looks like someone, you don’t want to be around.

Four years of this? UGH.


21 posted on 12/23/2008 9:20:40 PM PST by Cringing Negativism Network ("Free Trade" = Fire Americans. Buy another company then fire more Americans.)
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Oops.

Punin = Putin.


22 posted on 12/23/2008 9:21:17 PM PST by Cringing Negativism Network ("Free Trade" = Fire Americans. Buy another company then fire more Americans.)
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To: KellyM37

That picture must be photo shopped, his ears are too small!


23 posted on 12/23/2008 9:22:14 PM PST by Batman11
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

His body language screams out self-centerdness and fake non-chalance. He’s an actor, but a bad one.


24 posted on 12/23/2008 9:22:41 PM PST by little jeremiah (Leave illusion, come to the truth. Leave the darkness, come to the light.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

phoney baloney plastic banana good time rock and roller socialist man!


25 posted on 12/23/2008 9:22:59 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Night Hides Not
Poor Alan Greenspan. He'll be waking up to a terrible headache due to the "whirring" sound that interrupted his sleep several times during the night.

LOL (literally)!!

26 posted on 12/23/2008 9:23:33 PM PST by SFConservative
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Putin is ex-KGB. He looks like someone who could give the new “James Bond” a workout.


27 posted on 12/23/2008 9:25:42 PM PST by RobbyS (ECCE homo)
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To: Eric Blair 2084
maybe he is jut working out real hard.

Yeah, between smokes. How is it Øbama is percieved as the height of fitness?

28 posted on 12/23/2008 9:25:50 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: CivilWarguy; shibumi

*And* misrepresented.

Those baggy little man-boobs do *not* qualify as “pecs”.

[Cooper’s Droop, *maybe*]


29 posted on 12/23/2008 9:25:58 PM PST by Salamander (Cursed with Second Sight.)
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To: CivilWarguy

“Staged AND Photoshopped.”

There are amateur Photoshop whizzes that can verify that.

Please, any takers? You could be the next Buckhead.


30 posted on 12/23/2008 9:26:38 PM PST by Eccl 10:2 (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem - Ps 122:6)
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To: SFConservative

Obama = Stalin

Raging egomaniac (even among egomaniacs).

He will not permit dissent. Watch out!


31 posted on 12/23/2008 9:27:02 PM PST by whitedog57
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To: malkee

Well he did need to throw Barney and the boys a bone after that whole Rick Warren thingie. ;)


32 posted on 12/23/2008 9:28:40 PM PST by anymouse
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To: RobbyS

Keep the faith.

In 2012 when Governor Palin is elected POTUS, this thread will be (greatly) improved... :)

-

Is it 2012 yet?


33 posted on 12/23/2008 9:28:49 PM PST by Cringing Negativism Network ("Free Trade" = Fire Americans. Buy another company then fire more Americans.)
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To: malkee

You have to ask...”are those pec’s real or are they staged?”....
the answer would be...
“yes they are real, and..they are fantastic!!”

(tip to Seinfeld ep.)


34 posted on 12/23/2008 9:29:14 PM PST by BigSkyVic
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To: little jeremiah

When I read your post, why did I immediately think of Richard Dreyfuss?...;-D


35 posted on 12/23/2008 9:29:39 PM PST by Salamander (Cursed with Second Sight.)
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To: Eric Blair 2084

The most blatant case of ‘accidental’ photo ops with Bill was when he made a cross out of stone at Omaha beach. Painfully phony and in some ways insulting


36 posted on 12/23/2008 9:29:52 PM PST by 240B
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To: malkee
Hmmmm....
Obambis = Klintoons = mirror image..
"Troika / Footstool of Liberalism...Corruption, Nationalization & Propaganda" Rush Limbaugh
“Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P.J.O’Rourke

37 posted on 12/23/2008 9:31:44 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (just b/c you're paranoid, doesn't mean "they" aren't out to get you.. :^)
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To: malkee
Oh my gosh..he's got b**bies...

Can you say that on the Internet?

38 posted on 12/23/2008 9:34:41 PM PST by Earthdweller (Socialism makes you feel better about oppressing people.....)
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To: Eccl 10:2

you can look at the code in photoshop and it should tell the tale of any mods I believe each mod is delineated with a unique header

But I have never used photoshop


39 posted on 12/23/2008 9:35:07 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: RobbyS

Someone a bit less concerned with copyrights than this poster, should post a three-photo of our scrawny so-gay looking President elect, Putin ... and Sarah Palin with one of those bagged mooses of hers.

Just for perspective.

I mean, what Presidential photo thread wouldn’t be improved by some Governor Palin photos? :)

Can we make that a new rule?

Any Obama “fitness” photos, must be accompanied by a Sarah Palin photo for balance.

Anyone second the motion?...


40 posted on 12/23/2008 9:35:12 PM PST by Cringing Negativism Network ("Free Trade" = Fire Americans. Buy another company then fire more Americans.)
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