Is Barack Obama actually not in this photo of Barack Obama?

[cali]

Conspiracy theorist Jack Cashill and the mystery of the president's knee Video
By Alex Pareene



Jack Cashill, the right-wing journalist currently winning the national game of "'prove' the most outlandish thing you possibly can about Barack Obama" with his both his theory that Bill Ayers ghost-wrote "Dream From My Father" and his claim that the president's father was actually Jimi Hendrix, dropped a bombshell today: Barack Obama is not actually in a photo of Barack Obama and his grandparents.

As Cashill explains:

In his definitive 2010 biography of Barack Obama, "The Bridge," New Yorker editor David Remnick features a photograph of a dapper young Barack Obama sitting between his grandparents on a Central Park bench.

The bench is real. The grandparents are real. The wall behind them is real. Barack Obama is not. He has been conspicuously photoshopped in. Who did this and why remains as much a mystery as Obama's extended stay in New York.

The video evidence:

So, yes, this is actually just a picture of Barack Obama's grandparents hanging out in New York, where they did not live and where Obama was attending college, without their grandson, who was I guess secretly in Pakistan, at the time. I think that's what has been definitively proven here. Obama was being a Marxist Muslim in Pakistan.

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http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/04/07/birther_photoshop_fail/index.html

[Drunken Irishman]

1. Are you fucking kidding me?!?

They get more and more insane by the hour.

[pschoeb]

2. Cashill seems to be inadvertantly cutting down on his possible readership

If Jimi Hendrix is Obama's father, then Obama is unquestionably a natural born citizen, so Cashill will be loosing the whole birther crowd, who are the only ones crazed enough to listen to his other theories.

[Drunken Irishman]

3. Same shit I thought when there was a conspiracy going around that Malcolm X was Obama's daddy...

http://israelinsider.net/profiles/blogs/is-obama-the-secret-son-of

:rofl:

[dipsydoodle]

6. Don't be ridiculous

it was Al Jolson. :rofl:

[Drunken Irishman]

16. We got Al Jolson here! Al Jolson!

[democrank]

4. These birther idots

deserve zero attention.

[Skidmore]

5. Cashill's work was endorsed by Breitbart...need we say more?

This deserves a hearty guffaw with simultaneous fingerpointing.

[Glimmer of Hope]

7. Donald should have his people investigate!

[Courtesy Flush]

8. World's worst photoshop job

[zbdent]

10. this was on Media Matters, and you actually can still see Obama's leg

in between Grampa and Gramma ...

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201104070013

[GReedDiamond]

21. Yes, it is...

...as is the entire area above the circled area, all of which was poorly "cloned" in a very obvious way. In fact, everything around Grandma has been altered, in a feeble attempt to blend her into the background, including removing Grandpa's hand, which would otherwise obviously look ridiculous, as it would be floating way above Grandma's right shoulder, because she is significantly shorter than her grandson.

Not to mention the area below the (still existing) Obama knee, where Obama's leg used to be.

Plus, Grandpa's left knee has been altered.

The really bad photoshop operator also, I think, blurred the image to help smooth out the many obvious flaws created by their extremely amateurish work.

Actually, I've hardly ever seen anything as poorly done as this.

Another aspect to consider is the fact that, were this "real," whoever shot the photograph was apparently framing the shot with the two figures way to the left of the shot. I think most people would instinctively try to center the object(s) they were focused on in the center of the frame.

Monumental Fail.

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. Jack Cashill lives here. He's a fucking fruit loop.

He's been on the birther bandwagon since before Obama ran for president.

And Jack is no more credible than Fred Phelps.

[H2O Man]

11. ABC's "Find My Family"

may need to investigate this Jimi angle. Perhaps the true story can be found in playing the "Hendrix: In the West" LP's version of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" backwards.

[Search4Justice]

12. Do people like this ...

.. need someone to come in and dress them in the mornings? Who does this clown think he's fooling? (Other than the carnival marks aka: Teabaggers.)

[Lovette]

13. Fake!

This is a bad case of photoshop. Some one erased Obama out of this picture and they did a bad job because if you look down in between the middle you will see that one of Obama's knees that they failed to erase!

Compare!

[Courtesy Flush]

15. Our poor grandson is just a knee, born without a body

But we still love him.

[spanone]

14. fucking racists

[RagAss]

17. Actually Jimi Hendrix stood in for him in the non-photo-shopped version....

Fucking Freeptard idiots !

[GReedDiamond]

18. Here's another thread on this from yesterday...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=841405&mesg_id=841405

[jillan]

19. What is there explanation for where the rest of grandpa's arm is?

Never mind - I didn't wait long enough. They had an explanation.

omg....

[onenote]

20. You gotta love a guy who uses photoshop to create what he claims is the original of a photoshopped

picture.

Idiot of the day.