David Mikkelson is the co-creator of snopes.com, a site dedicated to debunking urban legends. Snopes has become ground zero for setting straight these visual myths of the Internet. He analyzes questionable photographs, searching for "artifacts" -- "blurry spots, things that don't match" and other "evidence of digital manipulation.
Testimony of the Snopes level of "proof" -- no better than anyone else with a photo editing program, yet they are "Experts, Authoratative". Ri-i-ight.
What a horrible article, editing-wise, content-wise. Tell me, anyone, based on this article, (1) Are the lens caps over Clinton's binocs said to be real or fake? (2) Is the book in Bush's hand upside down said to be real or fake?
Snopes ... trash ... wishful thinking and way over-rated. IMO.
I e-mailed him back the cartoons of Bush at the rodeo with a hogtied donkey and of Daschle waking to find the donkey's head in his bed. (He didn't receive them. Strange. So I sent them again.)
He also told me that the Republicans want to destroy the rain forests and blah blah blah.
I asked him where he got that. He said, "I read about it in Time magazine."
I said, "No wonder you're confused. Time magazine is a propaganda rag. The only way you're going to find out what's really going on is to get the news from the internet."
He thought about it, but I'm not optimistic.
I sent him a copy of this article.