by Chuck Larlham
Member since:
January 19, 2009

A Gift of Right Wing-Nut Stupidity... Just for us this Election Year

January 30, 2012 10:02 PM UTC (Updated: January 30, 2012 11:11 PM UTC)
views: 0 | 12 people recommend this | comments: 35

There are some things that just flat piss me off.  This kind of vicious slander is one of 'em.  It's a blivit, five pounds of stupid in a two-pound bag.

The photo below is floating around Facebook again, and I'm getting tired of it.  It's a Photoshop job, and a mediocre one at that.  Zoom in on it and look below the President's left elbow.  Something there will tell you that despite the wedding ring and the lapel pin... this photo is a slander.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here's the Snopes link: Obama Lefthand Salute - FALSE!

Comments: 35

Kathryn Flynn Jan 30, 2012, 10:07pm UTC
The haters hate and the truth is found out.
George Shaw Jan 30, 2012, 10:08pm UTC
This one is better. After they flipped the negative they photo shopped the wedding rings and the coat buttons on the President.
esteban g. Jan 30, 2012, 10:11pm UTC
they can put their feet in the air and slide one the ice for all I care about symbolism.

Nontheless, they are willing to help others in their country in perhaps the smartest way we have going.
Larry M. Jan 30, 2012, 10:25pm UTC
Standard political fare.
I just looks, off, like when you watch a show on SyFy made with a Green Screen. The edges aren't quite as sharp as they should be.
Then again, anyone who thinks this is real, isn't either.
Chuck Larlham Jan 30, 2012, 11:01pm UTC
Ryan (below) explains why it looks "off"
Yep, that too. What I was really refering to, however, was the "haze" around them, in general, and the fact that the background is REALLY out of focus. When you combine that with the fact that they look a bit blurry themselves, it looks like a bad green screen shot from TV or a movie.
I read the Snopes link, and it sounds like what they did was essentially what happened with the left-handed Billy the Kid photo. The derrogotype that was flipped backward.
Ryan Reid Jan 30, 2012, 10:42pm UTC
i use photoshop a lot and whoever did this sucks...look at the over dramatic shadow under each of their hands. not to mention all the way around their hands...strange how the lighting is coming from above and below...hmmm
David K. Jan 30, 2012, 10:49pm UTC
One has to ask why someone would go through so much trouble to create a falsehood. Oh, right. That's why.
Chuck Larlham Jan 30, 2012, 10:59pm UTC
Indeed
Chuck Larlham Jan 30, 2012, 11:04pm UTC
I knew the Marine guard was wrong and that the entire thing was fake the second I saw it. Just couldn't figure out WHAT was wrong about that damned Marine! Snopes pointed out the medals, just to make me feel stupid, I think.
Kathryn Flynn Jan 31, 2012, 4:21am UTC
Scary, the entire right wing.

For those who believe the LDS church when it states that there isn't a hidden agenda to have as many LDS in Washington as possible, or to bump up the number of LDS in Washington or to have an LDS president.

But I will repeat what Sen. Hatch told me when I interned as a reporter in D.C. and was covering the Utah congressional delegation for a Utah newspaper.

Hatch: "We have 300 Mormons in Washington now. We want that number to be MUCH higher. Much higher. We have a campaign to get as many Mormons in Washington as possible."

FACT. Hatch said this to me at lunch.

Kathryn Flynn Jan 31, 2012, 7:23am UTC
I was not reporting on that lunch. That lunch was a private conversation. I was reporting on the official statements the delegation made. Oh and I had a lot of front page stories.

'The people in Utah WANT the Indian (sic) school to close.'

On the closing of the native American schools.
Chuck Larlham Jan 31, 2012, 8:16am UTC
That would be the WHITE people in Utah, I'm guessing?

I have a story about Laura and the Indian schools. Broke her heart.
Kathryn Flynn Jan 31, 2012, 1:08pm UTC
Chuck: Yepper.

Gotta hear that story.

My grandmother's foster child went to those schools and so did her other foster child. I played with them.

The congressman vehemently denied ever making that statement and the managing editor called me from Ogden to D.C. to verify that I had heard him say that. I said, Yes. He most definitely said it. The congressman had been on record (TV) for saying things before that he shouldn't have said. So it ran on page 1 and a number of other followup stories on that topic ran on page 1 when I was an intern.
Karl Leuba Jan 31, 2012, 4:14pm UTC
American Paradox, great phrase, explains a lot, like outlawing ethnic studies and mandating Bible study. That's paradox on HGH.
Kathryn Flynn Jan 31, 2012, 6:53pm UTC
paradox on hgh. hahah very funny and abt!
Kasey Klein Jan 31, 2012, 6:07am UTC
I don't see any different between patriotism and bigotry, so I wouldn't care. Country worship is just so strange to me.

This Republican clown car has jumped the shark. It's like a race to bottom.
elizabeth evans Jan 31, 2012, 12:28pm UTC
What is incredible is the fact they are sooo dumb they thought this image would pass muster.
Chuck Larlham Feb 3, 2012, 1:30pm UTC
It DOES pass muster... with people who want to believe.
Susan G. Jan 31, 2012, 1:07pm UTC
It has always bothered me that the right wing zealots make extensive use of lies and fabrications in their political attacks. Don't they realise that in so doing they give the appearance of being unable to find enough actual facts to use in their attacks?
Rita B. Jan 31, 2012, 2:14pm UTC
We have a friend who has voted Republican all of his life, the last time we saw him he said he will not vote Republican this coming election.
Kathryn Flynn Jan 31, 2012, 5:22pm UTC
wow.
Peter Joseph Swanson Jan 31, 2012, 5:45pm UTC
ugh
Wil B. Jan 31, 2012, 6:59pm UTC
This attempt to smear President Obama with a bad Photoshop job is pathetic, and the attempt to keep the teleprompter thing going is just lame.
I kind of like it. My favorite is still the Big Cat at the World Trade Center, a reworking of the Photoshop joke from the late '90s showing a man holding a cat the size of a St. Bernard in his arms.

I'm worried that some people might take it seriously. I suspect the ones who do aren't likely to vote for Obama anyway. I bet they have their boxes of Obama Waffles though.

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