Oh Jesus. . .this is an ubelievable picture of *

[wndycty]

President Bush (news - web sites) speaks about Columbus Day at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building Monday, Oct. 13, 2003. President Bush, annoyed by what he considers the 'filter' of news reporting, will seek to go around the press on Monday through television outlets that do not routinely cover the White House. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?g=events/pl/081201presidentbush&a=&tmpl=sl&ns=&l=1&e=1&a=0

[Oberst Klink]

1. Photo was planned.

[JitterbugPerfume]

7. that is

wrong

just wrong

[blueraven95]

18. it is unbelievably simple

to take a photo like that. It is undoubtably a preplanned and posed image. All you would need is a stage light and a camera. Bush has a long history of faked photos, though. Ever since before he stole the presidency photographs of him have been photoshoped to put him in new locations with different people than those he posed with. Check it out yourself.

[wndycty]

20. Its the presidential seal.

It obviously is placed there to make him look heavenly.

Sickening, just sickening.

[blueraven95]

24. you're right it is the seal

how horrible

[Guaranteed]

61. With him talking about the "liberal" bias of the media...

...it almost looks sarcastic.

[eileen_d]

2. That "filter" of facts is pretty tough to squeeze through

when you're a lying liar.

[gratuitous]

3. Not really

It's just the Sweet Light of Reason bouncing off his logic-proof cranium.

[GregW]

4. Looks like a Papa Murphy family-sized "Dumbya Pizza"

:eyes:

[Q]

5. Why...that looks like a halo...

...our God-Fearing CIC would never tell a lie because...well...God's on his side.

- It's no surprise that Bush* wants to circumvent the 'free press' and spread his propaganda directly to the people. No 'filters' there.

[Bunny]

6. How can he POSSIBLY be annoyed at the "filter" of news reporting?

He admitted himself that he doesn't read papers or look at TV. He gets his news "filtered" by his staff!!! Is there no end to his asshole-iness? Christ, he's a dick!!!

BTW, freaky picture! :wow:

[sallydallas124]

8. OMG

This isn't the first of these halo photos. I remember several others.

[wndycty]

9. The AP should be ashamed of itself. . .

:kick:

[rasputin1952]

10. This pic has been around for a bit...

but it is as chilling as ever.

I can just see those of the Christian Coalition bowing down in reverence to this prince of clowns.

Sad, truly sad.

:kick:

[opihimoimoi]

14. The Psyops continues.....it don stop, The Pubs always are trying

:shrug:

[DK666]

11. He He He

Look Im Radioactive Man.....

[Richardo]

12. See the lounge discussion at....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=279954

[Cocoa]

13. Bush's hangover is yellow today

must have been tequila.

[Jackpine Radical]

15. Is it just me or

is there an incredibly evil look on his face? Look at the eye. Doesn't it look like somebody put a halo around a Satanic visage?

[SpaceCatMeetsMars]

21. I said in the other thread that his eyes look creepy.

On edit: I guess I mean his eye, since only one is visible.

[Wickerman]

16. Silhouetted by the Texas moon, Bus* looks down at his spilled drink n/t

[RobertSeattle]

17. The color is appropriate (yellow)

[truthseeker1]

19. My first thought was a wolf getting ready to howl at the moon

and yes, there is a sort of sinister-ness in the way his eye looks.

[Paxton_Free]

22. HAHAHA...

I saw this and actually saved it to post when I got back from lunch. I'm glad someone beat me to it!!!!!!

If I'm not mistaken, is this not a replica of one of the Frescas (I think that's what they're called, but I could definitely be wrong)from the Vatican?

[OldSoldier]

25. Frescoes

Frescas are soft drinks.

[Paxton_Free]

26. There you go.

Who knew that Vatican could produce such delicious, citrusy treat?

Seriously, though. Frescoes. I knew I was spelling that wrong.

Thanks.

[Bozita]

23. Great photo...suitable for framing and appropriate worship.

all together now:

Our Father...

[Tatiana]

27. He looks evil.

More like the false messiah than some heavenly being...

[drdigi420]

80. All messiahs are false

Dont believe the hype

[Richardo]

28. Somebody please Photoshop this so there's light coming from his left ear

Please?

[alfredo]

31. I did it

but it didn't look quite right. If I get one to look good, I will post it.

[Richardo]

32. thx alfredo...

:thumbsup:

[Pastiche423]

35. Kinda like

this?

[Mari333]

37. Check your PM!!

!!

[Pastiche423]

44. From Mari333's husband!

[Richardo]

74. HAHAHA!! Thanks Mr. Mari333!!

Tip o' the Photoshop cap! :toast:

[Devils Advocate NZ]

29. The image has been faked!

Put a copy into a graphics editor like photoshop, and zoom in on the edge between the front of his hair and the "halo". In fact if you look carefully at the original you can see it too.

What you will see is the yellow tinting his hair. The only way this could happen to the degree seen is if the background was intentionally blurred using photoshop (or some other such program).

That means they intentionally blurred the presidential seal, and the ONLY reason to do that is to put this halo like image around his head.

In fact, consider the seal itself. The yellow border on the seal is nowhere near as wide as can be seen at the nape of his neck, so they have even digitally removed the dark background from the centre of the seal itself!

At first I though it was just a case of the photographer catching a coincidental alignment, or even intentionally aligning the head in this way, but it goes much further. The image itself has been intentionally manipulated to make this effect even more pronounced, and that doesn't happen by accident.

[ElementaryPenguin]

30. If that is true - this is so fucking outrageous!!!

How can we bust these bastards on this?? They want to make sure this insane fascist really does get 4 more years to destroy this country - and start WWIII!!!

:puke:

[julka]

56. you're wrong. I found that pic in Yahoo photos, with at least one other

showing him looking like an idiot....turned toward the camera, witht the seal clearly in the background.

he may have posed for it, or the photographer may have gotten lucky......don't think it was shopped, though.

does it matter? it's still out there

edit......

heddafoil found it

[Devils Advocate NZ]

71. No, this picture just confirms that the other was photoshopped!

I didn't mean that the background was fake, only that the background had been artificially blurred to create the "glow" effect. Look at where his hair touches the seal border (his right temple) there is no tinting of the hair itself, and the dark background of the seal is clearly visible behind his neck. Also notice that the yellow border is narrower than it was in the first picture.

I realise that this photo has been taken from a higher angle (dropping the relative position of the seal) and that his head is turned, but the amount of dark background now seen shows that it was blurred out of the original photo.

[Resistance Is Futile]

64. Not faked

The yellow in the fascist's hair is a JPEG artifact. It follows the JPEG DCT block boundaries in exactly the stair-step pattern that would be expected in such a low-quality JPEG image.

The seal blurred out as a result of the camera's depth of field.

[Devils Advocate NZ]

72. JPEG artifacts occur equally throught the image.

Look at the white shirt collar that crosses the yellow seal behind his neck. There is no tinting there. Look at the hair on the back of his head, no tinting.

In fact the only place in the whole image where this tinting occurs is on the hair at the top front of his head.

As for the depth of field, I agree that some of the blurring is caused by this, and never said it wasn't. What I am saying is that the blurred background has been artifically blurred more to enhance the glow effect and remove the bits of dark background that should have appeared behind his neck.

JPEG artifacts don't descriminate like this. Most of the image is very sharp, with little or no bleeding of colour from one area to another. Just look at his shirt collar. You can't get much sharper than that!

[ElsewheresDaughter]

33. gag.......gag.....

get behind me Satan!:puke:

[juajen]

66. FFYI

Proper quote is "Get thee behind me Satan"

[Cascadian]

34. That pic is nothing compared to this....

John

[rasputin1952]

59. ROFLMAO!!!!!

That is great!

It's a keeper!

:bounce:

[Rex]

36. Well looky 'er...it's Saint George!

Maybe the will put that image on collector plates and sell them on HSN. :eyes:

[DemLikr]

38. I'd bet this was pre-shot at another time, not today at all.

Notice how he's holding his monkey head downward in that unnatural, stiff position. I'm sure it's extra hard to do, seeing as how there is no brain inside to give it weight.

Much like the posed shot of him supposedly on the phone from AF1 on 9/11. Give me a break...he was actually in the hold of the plane in a straight jacket at the time.

These people are shameless..but more shameless is what the mainstream press allows them to get away with.

[soupkitchen]

39. It's the condom/scumbag shot

Or what is the president's head doing in a condom?

[indigo32]

40. There is something really sick about that

uggghhh

[JVS]

41. He truly is the king of kings

[Retrograde]

42. headlight of the oncoming train?

n/m

[thebeaglehaslanded]

43. The only people who will be impressed with this picture

are the same ones who see images of the virgin mary on bathroom walls or the figure of christ in a broken tree limb.

[TexasPatriot]

47. hey!!!

i found the image of bob dobbs in the extruded salt from a hungryman chili dinner that i accidentally left in the oven for 12 hours when i was in college. (much better than the miracle tortilla imo) i even built a shrine (until my mother got into my apartment and cleaned) Alas, now the world will never know...

[blkgrl]

45. Look at THIS gem :-)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030916/241/5ac3w.html

[Cascadian]

48. Actually, it looks like a spaceship is about land on Daschle's head.

Maybe the aliens could tell us where some of the Democratic leadership's spines are?


John

[oxycontinrush]

63. Independence Day at the Capitol

"No... we don't know what the signal originating from the ships is..."

[havocmom]

81. That's odd...

Upon viewing, I heard Tina Turner singing Proud Mary...

[Woodstock]

46. the anti-christ

.

[leesa]

49. It IS Jeeeeezus! Are Fundies truly this stupid?

Why aren't they angry about this depiction since he is clearly mocking somebody with a halo.

[ChronicZabba]

91. they don't like to think much

hey I was forced Southern Baptist for many years .... I can tell you that as simple and offensive this picture is, it WILL work to convince the Christian extreme right

sad ...... when did so many Americans become SO stupid, exactly?

[Ilsa]

50. I think this is recycled Bushit.

I think I saw this photo over a year ago. Or another almost exactly like it, same theme.

[hedda_foil]

51. Check out the alternate photo.

Straight from AP today(no photoshopping).

[Clete]

52. And the most digusting and offensive of all.

By the way.

Did anyone read the article?

[frank frankly]

53. good old KKKarl

he says something like "you should run a campaign like the audience is watching it on mute."

your halo looks a little yellow there, President Stupid.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

54. Saint George

The patron saint of morons.......and pill heads.

[zeemike]

55. No no

The patron saint of preemptive war

[Fovea]

57. The difference between medieval England

and the Corporate States of America is that our St. George IS the dragon.

What a disgusting photo, it looks like he is praying which is only one vowel off from what he is really doing.

[FrenchieCat]

58. His dandruff is glowing.....

That's what happens when you mail Anthrax.....some gets in your hair!

[Resistance Is Futile]

67. Nah

Anthrax doesn't glow.

This is what happens when an incurious idiot mistakes cesium 137 for shampoo. :)

[SoCalDem]

60. Photographers have done several just like that

sometimes with lights (halo) or the pres seal.. Talk about "subliminible":(

[Resistance Is Futile]

65. Chosen by God

A huge portion of his base are Christian reconstructionists who believe he was chosen by god to be president. Being fascists rather than idiots, his handlers are doing their best to fuel the reconstructionists' delusions.

[snippy]

79. Bush believes he was chosen by God to be president.

Whistle Ass has told many people this and it has been reported several times. That is one of the primary reasons why I think Whistle Dick should invoke the 25th amendment.

[ChronicZabba]

90. came from that crowd of wackos

hey I was forced Southern Baptist for many years .... I can tell you that as simple and offensive this picture is, it WILL work to convince the Christian extreme right

sad ...... when did so many Americans become SO stupid, exactly?

[juajen]

68. Wow, those photographs were fantastic

Did you do all the photography? Some trip! Maybe in my dreams. Thanks so much for sharing these.

[SoCalDem]

70. Yeppers.. I was the photographer

Kodak LS443 digital.. Those damned torches messed up the night shots.. I needed the night setting, but the sport setting would have allowed for the movement, but not at night :(

My husband told me.."You moved the camera"..Bah... I said look at the foreground..no blurs..just where there was fire :(..

Maybe if we go back someday, I will make HIM take the pics..

He got his underwater pics back today, and I had to bite my tongue to NOT point out how good the pics of the invisible fish were.. Ah the joys of being married almost 34 years.. Our tongues get shorter by the year :)

[Zorra]

62. OMG, lol...St. George of the pancake breakfast

campaign fundraiser. Patron saint of liars and hypocrites.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

69. I like this one better:

[snippy]

78. That is very good.

[ScreamingMeemie]

73. Kick

:kick:

[Neecy]

75. gross

No doubt the next step for this photo is to be painted on velvet and sold at gas stations.

The fact that his handlers attempt to give this simpleton a messianic air is utterly laughable.

[UTUSN]

76. Kick - WndyCity on the Case Again

I just posted looking for this disgusting pic, and there it is.

[demnan]

77. Just thought this was an appropriate place to post this link

http://www.geocities.com/trebor_92627/Bush.htm

On why Bush is the antichrist.

[Evil_Dewers]

82. He looks like Damien (The Omen) all grown up...

That means Bush 41 isn't the father--Satan is.

[Wickster]

83. Look at this awful pic

Go to:

http://www.jesusoftheweek.com/jesii/264/index.html

to view another thoroughly disgusting picture.

[goddess40]

84. furrowed brow shows he is looking up...

not down as he would be if he were deep in reflective thought. It's like he's looking to see if everyone is taking note of his pose.

[UTUSN]

85. Complain to the AP - Link

http://www.ap.org/pages/aptoday/aptoday_contact.html

For general questions and comments: [e-mail]

[hippiegranny]

86. peee-uke

this kind of horseshit pisses me off. how dare they? this man is a murderer.

[ignatius]

87. That is just wrong. The man ain't right,and the photographer

is a sicko as well.

The man is like a Disneyland character and about as bright.

[rocktivity]

88. He's done this before

I remember seeing a photo very similar to this with the background a little sharper. Like hell it's a coincidence.


rocknation

On edit:



Thanks, Wickster and Jesus Of The Week!

[Kolesar]

89. I saw this in Time or Newsweek many months ago

Positively pathetic--it must appeal to his unquestioning god fearing fans who need some reinforcement when Mr. President is starting to look like a bloodthirsty, lying murderer.

[ignatius]

92. Yep, youv'e got the correct image in mind. Dubya surrounded

by dying and maimed Iraqis and U.S. soldiers with an ASmerican flag flying high and proud behind him.

That would be a powerful reminder to all Americans, that what he does is in all our names.