Fake Troops Love Bush

Mithras over at DailyKos has an interesting scoop. It seems that Bush’s new campaign ad uses a photoshopped image to make it look like a crowd scene contains more soldiers than it really does :




Maybe this explains why Republicans always seem to have more support from the military. They’re just counting the same four guys over and over again.

UPDATE : After looking at the DailyKos thread, it looks like the photo was manipulated to erase Bush rather than inflate the size of the crowd. Too bad it’ll take more than mediocre photoshop skills to get rid of the real Bush, huh?


posted by greg on October 28, 2004 @ 1:30 am

7 comments

  1. Actually, they had to re-up four times to get the job done, so they did it all at once.

    Comment by W — October 28, 2004 @ 1:39 am

  2. Further comments at the Kos posting show that originally Bush was in the shot, standing at a podium, and for whatever reason they cut n’ pasted a few soldiers to remove him.

    Comment by Geoduck — October 28, 2004 @ 2:38 am

  3. I’d go take a look at it but because I’m an American living in Japan for a short time the Bush campaign has decided to block my access to their campaign site.

    Comment by michael — October 28, 2004 @ 4:40 am

  4. The real question is: What were they covering up in that spot of the picture?

    Comment by Misplaced Patriot — October 28, 2004 @ 5:01 am

  5. Good work and good question! Who produced this spot? Would be a great interview candidate for Jon Stewart.

    Comment by Betty — October 28, 2004 @ 5:11 am

  6. The debate is over, we need that clone army now!

    The Talent Show notes an interesting observation: look at the crowd in this picture taken from a Bush ad. People are guessing it's a pathetic photoshop job, but there is a more nefarious explanation. We know that Bush has claimed there will not be…

    Trackback by Pharyngula — October 28, 2004 @ 6:29 am

  7. they are probably covering up the pictures of god-fearing american soldiers kissing…

    Comment by FreedomByChoice — October 28, 2004 @ 10:40 am

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