Reply #54: It may not be photoshopped, but either way it does not tell us anything...

[Bjorn Against]

So there are a few empty seats next to John Kerry, so what? What evidence does Powerline have that those seats were not reserved for someone else? You can not generally just walk up and grab a seat next to a powerful Senator and former Presidential candidate. Plus there is obviously at least one other person in that photo talking to Kerry, and the majority of people in that room do not look like troops at all.

To suggest all the troops love Bill O'Reilly and all the troops hate John Kerry is just absurd. The reality is that both of them have their fans and their detractors, not all the troops think alike by any means.

I challenge the people at Powerline to point out one thing in that photo that suggests the troops hate John Kerry. A few empty chairs is not evidence, unless they can prove why those chairs are empty. Also I would like them to show me evidence that most of the people in that room are in fact troops.

For a website that built its name on analyzing typewriter fonts it sure seems that they could use some more critical thinking on the material they post.

I don't think it was photoshopped, I just think it is completely irrelevent.