Bush Campaign Replaces Ad with Doctored Images (KOS!!!!)

[doxieone]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/29/politics/campaign/29troops.html?ex=1099627200&en=68fcfe11a4ba1283&ei=5006&partner=ALTAVISTA1

Kos originally posted it!! He is acknowledged in the article.

Bush Campaign Replaces Ad That Had Doctored Images
By JIM RUTENBERG

Published: October 29, 2004


IAMI, Oct. 28 - President Bush's campaign said Thursday that it was replacing one of its closing advertisements after acknowledging that it included an image that had been doctored to increase the number of soldiers appearing to listen to Mr. Bush.

The abrupt move came after a liberal Web log, DailyKos, featured a posting showing that the same faces appear several times in several different places within the same crowd shot. Democrats pounced on the issue, saying that the advertisement underscored their contention that the Bush administration had repeatedly deceived the American people.


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[LeftCoast]

1. WooHoo! There goes a bunch of Republican $$$ down the drain!

:bounce:

[politick]

2. A Small Victory

for a rag-tag group of digital freedom fighters!

[maddezmom]

3. oh god, Delay is going to have fit,,,KOS getting press in liberal NYT

:)

[punpirate]

5. Yup, I hope that one...

... turns up DeLay's blood pressure a few notches.

[pearl]

4. I love That!

:bounce: :bounce:

[sugargoose]

6. Does anyone have a copy of the photo?

I have some R designer friends who might like to see that they could have a career in this administration with their photoshop skills.

[ahem]

21. follow this link

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/10/28/171257/59

[Pirate Smile]

7. He is also referenced in the Washington Post

edit to add the link -http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/elections/2004/postcards/

"The doctored photograph was first pointed out on the Web site, dailykos.com. After the site showed the original photo and the doctored one, in which Bush and the podium had been replaced with clumps of electronically copied soldiers, posters had a field day with the manipulation.

"An Army of One. They mean it literally," one poster wrote.

"In and of itself, this photo may not be a huge thing," another said, "but as a symbol of this administration's callous disregard for the truth and shameless exploitation of our troops (while passing the buck to them for the administration's own screw ups), it's potentially quite powerful."'

[tompea]

8. i can't wait

for this to be over, i'm really getting so sick of them
tom pea

[Bandit]

28. Sorry to tell you this but it won't ever be over

This is a war that has been ongoing for over a century and it will continue. It won't be one day after the election that the GOP will start their smears and thuggery trying to overthrow the government back to fascism. You better be prepared to be in this for the long haul.

[American liberal]

29. and that is exactly why

the Dems need to retake control of Congress. Do you think we'll take the Senate at least?

[yardwork]

30. What a beautiful photograph!

Can I link it? I don't want to steal anyone's bandwidth, but I would love to send this photo to some friends.

[Bandit]

31. Thank you..it was taken out my front window

Yes you can link to it. Eagles are almost a pest where I live.

[flowomo]

9. Yep... and CNN picked it up and trashed the "doctoring" tonight

[Brundle_Fly]

10. they didnt even really fix it

they just focesed over to the left to now show the part they'd orginally doctored...


f*ckers

[flowomo]

11. Anderson Cooper really attacked them for it too

[Nordic]

12. CNN threw a bone to truth?

Well my stars!

[pinniped]

13. Here are the two photos:

Courtesy of Yahoo!

http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news?c=&p=doctored

Sorry Mr. asshole*, you can not create soldiers by simply using a cloning tool. This just goes to show that * views our soldiers as mere pawns.

Let's all play a game of spot the doubles and triples. Think I see a trio of triplets in there. I thought they didn't allow brothers or sisters to serve so closely in the same theater????

This why * says there will be no draft. The knuckleheads have figured out how to clone soldiers.:crazy:

Presidunce at podium:



No presidunce at podium:

[bvar22]

14. The Nazis used the same propaganda technique...

...to make it appear that Hitler was addressing larger crowds.

This was bound to happen. bush*s handlers only let bush supporters attend rallies, so naturally the crowds are getting smaller and smaller.

[MIMIC]

15. Those Freetards are a strange group of people

They act as if it's no big deal (but could you imagine how they would wet themselves had Kerry's campaign been caught doing this :D)

They don't care because they have absolutely no way to refute or defend it. Feigned apathy is their only weapon. :)

[Kimber Scott]

16. These people must be genetically incapable of telling the truth - about

anything. Ever. Nothing. Everything they do is bullshit.

[Dr Fate]

17. What do you expect from chronic liars?

n/t

[Ima]

19. nothing new

Remember the photo shopped photos from Iraq?

[PATRICK]

18. More black soldiers

Used the same technique earlier to show more minorities at Bush events, but that was long ago and they never paid a price for it.

[sofa king]

20. Ooh, tell me more about that one.

I never heard that story. Can you point me to some pictures and articles about it?

[Stockholm]

22. Right bastards those repugs!

[carolinalady]

23. i just saw the "doctored ad" on a cable station here in Wilmington

a little slow on the draw I would say.

[maddezmom]

24. still playing it here as well..just saw it

[young_at_heart]

25. Is this ad a Karl Rove "special"?

Read his history and you will know this type of thing is SOP with him!

[ElsewheresDaughter]

26. * did NOT pull NOR fix the ad! i just saw it on CNN! same cloned soldiers

and it was NOT a news cegment about the ad...it was during a commercial break that the ad ran on.

[RebelOne]

27. They talked about it on Crossfire yesterday.n/t

[blkeyedszn]

32. Score!!!!

[TheDonkey]

33. just saw the shit on CNN minutes ago

it's an effective ad, but complete bullshit