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let's go through a brief history of president obama photoshop conspiracies i
really liked the story
this uh... media matters put this together and they did this after the
white house put out a picture of president obama skeet shooting at camp
david and conservative bloggers obviously anybody could have predicted
that this would happen
we're starting to claim that the picture had been altered or it was created with
adobe photoshop or some kind of graphics editing program
and this follows what now is a long and really bizarre tradition of
conservative media
saying that
any that they've really at this point it's a broad range of pictures of
president obama
have been fraudulent so first will put up the skeet shooting picture okay in
this picture
was uh... immediately the it's no i don't even want to name them but a
number of different conservative blogs in media outlet started saying that it
does this really just doesn't look right
of one of the things that people said was wrong with this was the president
obama's wearing
sunglasses instead of a baseball hat and that typically you would wear a few
shooting
you would work baseball hat
and not sunglasses to block the sunlight
so that so the pictures is edited any gimme a break
if anything it's poorly stage but to say that that's an uh... that's evidence
that the pictures a fraud
what did the paranoid nature of some of these people lewis is just unbelievable
yeah uh... i mean
do you think of these are the people that want to use this picture
uh... to their advantage right i mean here's obama holding in shooting a gun
right and he shouldn't they just be posting this real authentic image all
over the place and saying look
guns are fine giving here's the president shooting you would think celia
but then we have the president obama birth certificate you know about this
one we had so many analyses done of the birth certificate under
hot lights and all sorts of different changes and and modifications done with
graphics editing programs and more and more people uh... started to get on the
bandwagon including shareef till our part of was doing and investigate should
have the birth certificate and donald trump and so on and so forth
and of course we have found absolutely
no evidence that this was actually photoshop in fact it just seems that its
president obama's birth certificate i think what we were overall is that the
people who were trying to take obama down a peg
can't really talk about his policies or the policies of his ministration because
they don't really know much about it
uh... this they're misinformed they don't have to get themselves on these
matters so all they can really do we say oh here's a fake picture picture we
think was that it is a conspiracy theory ag exactly fake birth certificate then
we have these two pictures let's show the before and after this is a picture
of president obama with family this these are the family member pictures and
this is one that
is that president obama
with his grandparents sitting on a park bench in new york city and there's the
before and after people claiming that clearly
it was uh... it was a modified picture the real picture doesn't even have
president obama in there
and he was simply photoshop in of course it doesn't explain the disembodied right
leg that is still in the
after but ok baby that's uh... something that i just do not
uh... nuanced enough to understand i don't really know
and then we have the situation room photos the situation and photos again
allegations that
the photos where uh... created in order to
this was around that the assassination of osama bin laden
the allegation apparently was if you buy into the logic was that the photo was
created to make it seem like president obama was actually kind of leading the
charge to
uh... get osama bin laden but the reality is obama had nothing to do with
the afterwards they took some pictures and they pointed to
i don't know what his jacket looked weird in there's something weird on his
nak in different things
very very bizarre and then the last one is present obama throwing the football
now this is just incredible to me because why would you need some of these
if it stays
it's staged
but why would you need to to make the picture with photoshop it doesn't make
any sense the analysis here was that
president obama is inexplicably looking upwards in the picture when he's
throwing the football
and that i guess that just doesn't make any sense in that they were pixels
around his head in arms little pixels lewis that prove the picture
was apparently a fraud
fascinating so there's a brief history of obama
photoshop conspiracies by the way with the skeet shooting thing
why does it even matter if president obama skeet shoots and i guess the idea
would be the motive to fake the picture would be that oh bomb a dozen skeet
shoot but he wants to appear to have credibility on firearms because he's
passing gun-related legislation
and to all those people who are actually thinking that
president obama can't comment on gun legislation because uh... if he doesn't
should guns i would say bush in cheney didn't go to war
yet the same republicans had absolutely no problem with those two guys making
all sorts of decisions about
warfare
leading to the deaths of thousands of american troops that's okay even though
they didn't go to war but if obama hasn't gone skeet shooting he can talk
about gun safety it's a it's unbelievable
rana what more can i have to that
it's uh...
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