I know, I saw this on a design forum yesterday. Pathetic. Whoever let this albatross out of the coop should be fired.

No one at Fox News caught that?!

Sad. Just sad. I expected better.

There's another one too. I'll see if I can find it.

Some even think Fox is on the Right....Hah!

Man. They even yellowed his teeth. Duh.

The other one.

The lunatics at digg.com are extremely excited about this right now.

What a lame thing to do. By Fox, I mean. I'm happy that there's one single solitary TV network that's not enslaved to mindless left-wing orthodoxy, but I wish it were an organization that's a little more respectable than FNC.

I think its hilarious! If you can't take a joke, then wait till you see Obama elected....

Sure this isn't just one of those format differences?

/it looks like the width has been compressed or the height stretched

This has got to be some kind of joke or something. Make it throb, Charles, make it throb!

re: #6 Catttt

Man. They even yellowed his teeth. Duh.

/the whole picture is darker, not just the teeth

Did someone at Fox do this, or did they receive from an outside source this way?

re: #9 LoFlyer

I think its hilarious! If you can't take a joke, then wait till you see Obama elected....

This kind of joke makes either side of the political spectrum look really petty, cheap, and vindictive in my opinion. Remember what they did to Condi? I don't think this sort of thing is ever cool, except maybe on FARK. FARK is FARK.

I wish this surprised me, but it doesn't. Newscorp, the parent company of Fox, is fat with Saudi money. And... Rupert has thrown his weight behind the whole global warming fiasco. So their credibility does have it's limitations at times.

re: #10 Killian Bundy

Sure this isn't just one of those format differences?

/it looks like the width has been compressed or the height stretched

His entire line of his brow ridge is covered by extra hairline, This is definitely altered, His nose is enlarged, The Chin is reshaped and made more prominent. No doubt!

FOX should no not to do stuff like this!

This was so unnecessary.

re: #10 Killian Bundy

Sure this isn't just one of those format differences?

/it looks like the width has been compressed or the height stretched

No, it's a clear photoshop -- the nose is HUGE, and if it was a squeezed image the nose would be narrower.

Morons, whoever's responsible for this. They deserve the O'Reilly Pinhead award. Let's see if he has the balls to do it.

re: #19 kywrite

No, it's a clear photoshop -- the nose is HUGE, and if it was a squeezed image the nose would be narrower.

Morons, whoever's responsible for this. They deserve the O'Reilly Pinhead award. Let's see if he has the balls to do it.

It also looks like they yellowed his teeth.

re: #14 patrickafir

This kind of joke makes either side of the political spectrum look really petty, cheap, and vindictive in my opinion. Remember what they did to Condi? I don't think this sort of thing is ever cool, except maybe on FARK. FARK is FARK.

Who did what with Condi? I think she is pretty hot myself....

re: #19 kywrite

They deserve the O'Reilly Pinhead award.

Definitely!

Why make the nose bigger? Because he's Jewish?

Someone, please take away their privileges to launch Photobooth.app. They're having too much fun with the effects.

I think they may have just stretched the height to fit their screen format, and darkened it a bit (perhaps got carried away editing)

But yea, pretty damn stupid. Why on earth would they think no one would notice. Duh..

re: #16 Egfrow

His entire line of his brow ridge is covered by extra hairline, This is definitely altered, His nose is enlarged, The Chin is reshaped and made more prominent. No doubt!

Yeah, I didn't look at the second photo.

/on the first one it looks like the height has just been stretched, but that should make the nose thinner, not wider

Who the hell wastes their time photoshopping NYT reporters? Get a life.

re: #10 Killian Bundy

Sure this isn't just one of those format differences?

/it looks like the width has been compressed or the height stretched

Look at the second set, dark circles clearly added under the eyes.

re: #19 kywrite

No, it's a clear photoshop -- the nose is HUGE, and if it was a squeezed image the nose would be narrower.

Morons, whoever's responsible for this. They deserve the O'Reilly Pinhead award. Let's see if he has the balls to do it.

I used to be neutral about O'Reilly. Ever since he started attacking Capitalism by going after corporations such as the Pharms, and the Oil industry as the pure blame for all our problems, he is more deserving of the Pinhead award, I now consider him a Jackass.

Really stupid.

More and more lately Fox has been going out of their way to validate the left wing opinion of them.

Cripes, more fuel for the nutters

look at his pointy head. and the nose. look at the chin. no one could look like that.
it's the pointy head. that should have been the give away.

re: #21 LoFlyer

Demonizing Condi

I don't know if I'd call Condi hot, but she's certainly statuesque and handsome. She didn't deserve the shabby Photoshop treatment. No one does from a supposedly reputable news organization.

Do you wonder if the Muslim part owner of Fox hasn't placed moles inside Fox to rob it of what credibility it has?
(After listening to Geraldo and Shep and all the gossip-y shows, Fox is falling fast.)

Someone should be looking for a job. Hopefully not using Photoshop.

re: #27 Sharmuta

Who the hell wastes their time photoshopping NYT reporters? Get a life.

haha No kidding.

I'd still like to see the original photo of Ann Coulter before they made her look like a spider legged freak on the cover of Time Magazine which is a bigger deal than flashing some pics on tv for a few seconds.

Anyway, it's sort of funny in an infantile sort of way. I like the sasquatch head they gave that one guy.

Charles, You ever think about starting your own cable channel? Fox News is inept. Just a straight-up anti-idiotarian format would smoke FNC.

Charles World! Charles World! Party Time! Excellent!

Party on Charles! "Schwing!"

/"Yeah, and monkeys might fly out of my butt."

A combination of stupidity and poor judgment apparently coupled with a vindictive sense of "humor." Great fuel for those who attack "Faux News."

Soros has someone inside Fox.
/

re: #36 guzziguy

Someone should be looking for a job. Hopefully not using Photoshop.

Heh, yeah, I could do a better job with this and I'm just an amateur hack. Whether he was trying to do a caricature or a true fake, he failed miserably.

/true fake - oxymoron? or just truthy?

re: #38 docremulac

Anyway, it's sort of funny in an infantile sort of way. I like the sasquatch head they gave that one guy.

/they forgot the stitch line just below the scalp and the bolts in the neck

re: #41 jcm

I'm glad you put ( / ) in that post.

This is Fox and Friends- not the actual news.
I mean, isn't it the "news" equivalent of The View

Rupert's crew let down the side it seems.

I don't watch TV much, but I have noticed over the last couple of years FOX on the Internet no longer parrots the AP, many of their headlines news shows a definate conservative bias. I have noticed a lot of stories on corruption in the UN that goes unreported by the other MSM. Yes I consider FOX to be MSM because they currently are the leader in cable news ratings. As seen by other comments, FOX was juvenile in posting the altered image, I still think it was pretty funny though....Fox does not balance out the huge liberal MSM bias....

Sort of off-topic, check out the stuff on this site: Photoshop Disasters All real stuff. If I remember correctly, Ann Coulter is on there somewhere with a weird elongated hand.

Ridiculous

look how the hair line has been lowered.
that's criminal.

Fox needs to run a "we screwed up" story, which is something you won't see on the left.

They used the PowerGoo like filter tool called (Liquify) in PhotoShop CS2/CS3 to distort these images.

re: #44 BignJames

I'm glad you put ( / ) in that post.

I'll put my tinfoil hat on and take it out!
;-P

re: #51 Thanos

Fox needs to run a "we screwed up" story, which is something you won't see on the left.

Heads should roll. The ijit who did the pshop, the producer who approved the images to start with.

Looks like we have:

Stretched pin head
Darker hair
Five o'clock shadow enhanced
Bigger nose
Wider chin
bushier, darkened eyebrows

All this will do is make me watch less of them. Not that I watch much Fox anyhow. The guy's reporting may be enough for me to consider him an asshat, I could care less what the hell he looks like.

re: #55 Thanos

Looks like we have:

Stretched pin head
Darker hair
Five o'clock shadow enhanced
Bigger nose
Wider chin
bushier, darkened eyebrows

Very amateurish and Juvenile, this type of crap is for the Daily Show or the Cobert Report, not for a legitimate international news program.

re: #55 Thanos

And yellowed teeth.

Faux:

You could even google it:

[Link: images.google.com...]

re: #55 Thanos

Looks like we have:

Stretched pin head
Darker hair
Five o'clock shadow enhanced
Bigger nose
Wider chin
bushier, darkened eyebrows

Ears are more Dumbo-like also.

It was a lame attack on these two. I saw it the other morning. the context was the photo of a man with a dog on a leash, with these two faces 'shopped in. That's why the first guy looks like a dog.

Pretty lame, Fox. Stay classy, San Diego!

re: #55 Thanos

Looks like we have:

Stretched pin head
Darker hair
Five o'clock shadow enhanced
Bigger nose
Wider chin
bushier, darkened eyebrows

Don't for those big dark rings under his eyes.

Looks like they gave him Obama ears, too.

re: #60 Bob in Breckenridge

Yep

re: #41 jcm

Soros has someone inside Fox.
/

He and Murdoch are friendly.

Feh, they probably hired someone like Kyle Bristow by mistake or something.

re: #63 buzzsawmonkey

I don't see the point of it, other than to give some adolescent the chance to giggle with his friends and say, "he he, we bad!"

i don't see the point of it either.
is it just a prank or an attempt to make fox look inept?
btw, i can see the kids giggling,
it made me laugh.

It was part of a SPOOF segment, guys. It was not some nefarious effort to slightly modify some pics to make the reporters look bad. They are deliberately bad to go with the context of the segment.

You jumped and ended up agreeing with a Media matters smeer before looking deeper like you should have.

Much ado about nothing. Fox accidentally posted a pic of Virgil "The Turk" Solozzo from
The Godfather

[Link: bbs.hddvd.net.cn...]

Looks like somebody was futzing around with Photoshop, not knowing what they were doing, and apparently, nobody else at Faux did either.

re: #55 Thanos
dark bags under the eyes
yellow teeth
cloned hair down the forehead
fatter ears

re: #70 Omni

Dang, really? You're right then: Skepticism would not have been amiss.

re: #72 ploome hineni

you said eyebrows?

Eyebrows!

re: #68 Thanos

Feh, they probably hired someone like Kyle Bristow by mistake or something.

Did you mean fox? That might explain all the buchanan interviews.

re: #70 Omni

link?

There was a third photoshopped pic following the face shots showing one of their faces superimposed on a poodle and the other guy walking him.

Sure, maybe they could have clued in the viewer a little better about the first two shots that were shown for perhaps 5 seconds, but I guess they assumed the joke would be understood in context with the third most obvious photoshop job.

Beckel did it. :)

re: #76 jcm

Eyebrows!

EYEBROW!

re: #78 Windhorse

Watch the video of the segement at the Media Matters link itself.

Fox has been in a slow decline for a few years now. The question is: Is this due to bad managerial decisions and a big dose of "we can do no wrong" cockiness, or has Murdoch decided to take things in a different direction? They used to be hard news with a cheeky tabloid flavor, and now they seem to be tabloid first, and news second.

re: #61 neshobanakni

It was a lame attack on these two. I saw it the other morning. the context was the photo of a man with a dog on a leash, with these two faces 'shopped in. That's why the first guy looks like a dog.

Pretty lame, Fox. Stay classy, San Diego!

It was lame, but done tongue in cheek.

When trying to talk to a moonbat about Michael Crichton's book State of Fear, their retort is - yeah well, Crichton smeared one of his critics by naming a child molester character after the critic. Allowed him the weasel room to obfuscate just as loons will use this to devalue any fox report by saying they fauxtographed just like reuters.

re: #70 Omni

They should know better, and know there are a lot of people waiting to catch them misrepresenting anything. If it was a spoof, and they used photos of actual 'attack' dogs identified with the reporters' names, they wouldn't have put themselves in this position. It would have been harder to perceive as an attempted trick.

re: #80 Omni

There was a third photoshopped pic following the face shots showing one of their faces superimposed on a poodle and the other guy walking him.

Sure, maybe they could have clued in the viewer a little better about the first two shots that were shown for perhaps 5 seconds, but I guess they assumed the joke would be understood in context with the third most obvious photoshop job.

They assumed wrong.

re: #80 Omni

There was a third photoshopped pic following the face shots showing one of their faces superimposed on a poodle and the other guy walking him.

Sure, maybe they could have clued in the viewer a little better about the first two shots that were shown for perhaps 5 seconds, but I guess they assumed the joke would be understood in context with the third most obvious photoshop job.

Well, I'll be damned, you're right, FOX Alters Pics of Reporters.

/Media Matters bust busted

re: #85 jorline

Yeah, it could have been done better but it's not what MM is trying to pretend it is and the massive fauxrage over it in the leftosphere.

re: #83 Omni

thanks.

If they had just put his UNALTERED face on the poodle, I wouldn't even care. But changing them to make them look "weird" is just wrong IMO.

Folks, relax, it's just a couple of NYT hacks. It's not like they photo-shopped anything of import. Probably boosted those cats careers...

re: #82 BignJames

EYEBROW!

LOL!

You win!

re: #76 jcm

Eyebrows!

EYEBROWS!

On topic: Fox is tasteless garbage

Whoever did the photoshop job probably thought they were so ridiculous looking that nobody could ever believe they were ligite and an attempt to just make them look ugly. But staring at a computer monitor close up in full screen reso is different than a fleeting image on a tv screen and they didn't realize they probably had to be even more distorted for comedic effect and intent to be recognized.

What's the point of making the guy's nose bigger anyhow?

I don't get it....It's simply juvenile.

Ok Everyone -

Slightly off subject - at 9:08 EDST/6:08 PDST - YAHOO is celebrating Independence Day as you go into the portal. GOOGLE is celebrating
NOTHING! As if all 'y'all couldn't guess.

-S-

File under unbelievable.

Muslims feel like 'Jews of Europe'
Britain's first Muslim minister has attacked the growing culture of hostility against Muslims in the United Kingdom, saying that many feel targeted like "the Jews of Europe".

/you know, except for the extermination camps

YIKES!

For a major media outlet to let this slip by is not just stupid; it is cosmically, epically stupid, a level of stupid so great as to blot out the Sun.

At least the Faux News editors caught this version though.

re: #70 Omni

I think that Fox DID try to make the reporters look bad.... but I didn't see it as a "spoof". I think Fox intended to make them look bad.... and doctored the photos to aid in the effort. Is it wrong to doctor photos if you are intending to make someone look "bad"? I think it makes Fox come off looking poorly...

re: #99 Ringo the Gringo

What's the point of making the guy's nose bigger anyhow?

I don't get it....It's simply juvenile.

Yeah, it was petty and stupid.

/but when you see the poodle image, it's obvious it was a tasteless joke and not some sinister plot

but then... this is the MSM we are talking about.....

I used to think we could rely on Fox News for at least a little more of the truth than CNN or MSLSD. They are all the same.

YO FOX -

Do everyone a favor and don't do it again. Thanks. -S-

It's bad media unless it's a cartoon or entertainment. These guys are news reporters letting their boundaries vanish a bit. Something I think happens often in the kos/huffpo world. In the segment they should make the caricature clear and make it the story. If not they lose some or a lot of credibility.

There is always bad media I dislike, but I usually think I am in the minority and just ignore it.

1. MichellMalkins caricatures of Hilary I found unwelcomed when she herself doesn't like to be caricatured meanly.

2. On KRLA where I listen to Medved and Hewitt there is a frequent advertiser that is so obnoxious I just turn the show off at that point. For a long while there it was just 18 minutes of Hugh Hewit, then done. the point here is that maybe the reporters thought they were doing something ok, but couldn't tell the difference due to an airhead quality. Turn Fox off if they can't get it together.

In today's world where the media exaggerates the importance of content people can get wrapped up in a lot of false notions and drift into those fascist states.

Unless it's a joke I would prefer they be straight with me at Fox.

TV new stinks.

They're all crap.

The only use I have for TV news is in the case of an important breaking news story or something live such as a debate.

re: #104 Killian Bundy

Poodle image?

re: #110 Ringo the Gringo

Poodle image?

/watch the video

I watched it. The reporters forgot to include the /sarc tag. All sorts of bad things can happen if they do something terrible like that. I file it under a poor attempt at subliminal revenge. Just for ease of viewing I take most things seriously unless that /sarc tag is there. Skimming too much info. Maybe I should slow done a bit.

re: #27 Sharmuta

Who the hell wastes their time photoshopping NYT reporters? Get a life.

So true.

I can't even believe they did something that stupid.

I hope they leave the fauxtoshopping to Adnan...

re: #99 Ringo the Gringo

What's the point of making the guy's nose bigger anyhow?

Note the Jewish surname....

re: #84 stevieray

Exactly. And O'Reilly, the bloviator, along with Girly Man? AAARRRGH!

I long for the days of test patterns.

re: #100 Dr. Shalit

They are on the left coast...we shall see tomorrow, as they did have a banner last year...albeit lacking very much red, white and blue.

Doesn't it look like they just resized to fit a screen area? Clumsy, but I doubt it was done intentionally. I have seen a lot of dumb 'perspective' shots on all channels.

But the worst is when they use a totally in appropriate gun to show violence, like at a crime scene when a knife was used to kill.

Need to see a video clip of the segment before passing judgment.

"Fox and Friends" is a morning show skewed more as entertainment than "news" and the pictures appear as an obvious joke, especially this one:

[Link: mediamatters.org...]

This is more "funtography" than "fauxtography" and if the kooks as MediaMatters hate it, all the better.

re: #119 William

Need to see a video clip of the segment before passing judgment.

The video clip is on the Media Matters site, in the linked article.

Someone at Fox screwed up. Whomever was supposed to check the photos dropped the ball, and whomever did the editing should be fired. That kind of behavior is inexcusable.

re: #89 Killian Bundy

re: #80 Omni

There was a third photoshopped pic following the face shots showing one of their faces superimposed on a poodle and the other guy walking him.

Sure, maybe they could have clued in the viewer a little better about the first two shots that were shown for perhaps 5 seconds, but I guess they assumed the joke would be understood in context with the third most obvious photoshop job.

Well, I'll be damned, you're right, FOX Alters Pics of Reporters.

/Media Matters bust busted

Agreed, just watched the edited clip at the above link, and it was obviously a joke.

Fox and Friends is entertainment with a lot of news as well. There is absolutely no excuse for those images to have made it to the broadcast. We should all be as outraged at this as when the moonbats do it.

Look, FoxNews is better than these other nutcase networks, but it doesn't mean they're perfect, or even close. They have insane Jew-hater Pat Buchanan on the air all the time, they defended Mel Gibson like no one else when he got busted drunk driving and spouting anti-Jewish nonsense and conspiracy theories, and Fox News now aired obvious photoshopped images to make people they don't like look bad. They've lost more credibility in my book, and you won't catch me making excuses for them just because I watch them more than the other stations. It's unacceptable what they did and hopefully they will restore some public trust after they fire the person responsible for letting this happen and tell us what they plan to do to make sure this never happends again.

re: #120 Kailen

The video clip is on the Media Matters site, in the linked article.

Someone at Fox screwed up. Whomever was supposed to check the photos dropped the ball, and whomever did the editing should be fired. That kind of behavior is inexcusable.

Just watched the clip, and this is yet another case of much ado about nothing from MediaMatters.

Come on, we're talking about goofy-looking NY Times reporters here, as well as superimposing their heads on a dog, complete with barking sound effects.  You're "outraged" by this?  It was obviously a joke, and if MediaMatters and the NY Times hate it, all the better.

re: #101 Killian Bundy

File under unbelievable.

Muslims feel like 'Jews of Europe'
Britain's first Muslim minister has attacked the growing culture of hostility against Muslims in the United Kingdom, saying that many feel targeted like "the Jews of Europe".

/you know, except for the extermination camps

Yes, that would be more like the Jews of Saudi Arabia.

Why the heck did Fox lower themselves to the lefty low standard of fauxography? They gained nothing from this and lost much -- credibility. Someone should be fired. Fox, in the public imagination and MSM's nightmare, is the re-presentation of conservatism. For it to tarnish the right with the tactics of the left is disgusting.

It hurts all of us who now consider ourselves to be conservative.

They need a mea culpa, a subsequent firing and an online apology to rectify this stupidity. Fox MUST do more than its competitors.

I watched the video, I watched the edited video. Shame, Fox, for two reasons:

First, anything with NEWS in the name shouldn't take these "playful" little potshots at other organizations. You want respect? Just provide chapter and verse where the other guys have been publishing hit pieces. Don't respond in kind, even jokingly, with some photoshop shenanigans.

Second, even if you are joking, keep your joke on topic. You don't attack a NYT reporter named Steinberg who does heavy-handed hit pieces by "Jewifying" him!

The bottom line is that somebody decided to make his nose bigger despite narrowing the rest of the photo. Fox News was playing with fire just for going to press with a cheeky photoshop segment, and deserves to get burned for letting it get completely out of control.

The photoshopper and the next up in the chain, at a minimum, should be out on their asses.

Bad joke. Obviously not intended to be taken seriously.

Not the same as faking pictures of bomb attacks and the like.

re: #123 William

Just watched the clip, and this is yet another case of much ado about nothing from MediaMatters.

Come on, we're talking about goofy-looking NY Times reporters here, as well as superimposing their heads on a dog, complete with barking sound effects.  You're "outraged" by this?  It was obviously a joke, and if MediaMatters and the NY Times hate it, all the better.

Why was Steinberg's nose widened?

The photoshopping of Mr. Reddicliffe appears to have been centered about making him appear older. What was the gist of the Steinberg modification?

That's why it's not funny, and it's not even appropriate.

re: #127 Pickle

Bad joke. Obviously not intended to be taken seriously.

Yes, much like the Fox News Channel itself.

Yep, much ado about nothing. It was a piece designed to poke fun at the NYT reporters, and the photoshops were blatantly obvious.

There was no need to point out the joke. The alterations were deliberately made very obvious as part of the story.

It's NYT reporters for crying out loud!

Fox should do this more often.

re: #130 LTC8K6

Yep, much ado about nothing. It was a piece designed to poke fun at the NYT reporters, and the photoshops were blatantly obvious.

There was no need to point out the joke. The alterations were deliberately made very obvious as part of the story.

It's NYT reporters for crying out loud!

Fox should do this more often.

Right-o.

I mean gosh, it's not like they've got any responsibility toward truth and accuracy.

Come on! The alterations were deliberately made extremely obvious so that no one could possibly miss them or think the photos were not altered. There was no attempt to make it seem like the photos were genuine. The alterations are clearly part of the story. They are clearly making fun of some stupid NYT reporters and this is very obvious from the dialogue and the obvious alterations.

This nothing like the subtle alterations intended to be accepted as real that we have seen before.

re: #132 LTC8K6

Come on! The alterations were deliberately made extremely obvious so that no one could possibly miss them or think the photos were not altered. There was no attempt to make it seem like the photos were genuine. The alterations are clearly part of the story. They are clearly making fun of some stupid NYT reporters and this is very obvious from the dialogue and the obvious alterations.

This nothing like the subtle alterations intended to be accepted as real that we have seen before.

They said the names of the reporters and put up their picture, there is no reason to believe that the photos would be altered. Even though anyone with a background in photoshop could easily tell they have been altered, the lay person cannot. Maybe the photo afterwards was a joke with the poodle, but the photos before were not. And just like a few other lizards here pointed out: why did they "jewify" Steinberg like in the Nazi and Islamic propaganda cartoons?

FYI for the people who didn't see the spot on FOX (apparently most of the comments so far) the frickin' hosts introduced the pictures as photoshopped pictures on a story about how they were photoshopped.
Not like they tried to just put them up or act like they were real, they said OUTRIGHT they were photoshopped. Jeeeeez.

Charles, did you even know that?

re: #134 FreedomNeocon

FYI for the people who didn't see the spot on FOX (apparently most of the comments so far) the frickin' hosts introduced the pictures as photoshopped pictures on a story about how they were photoshopped.
Not like they tried to just put them up or act like they were real, they said OUTRIGHT they were photoshopped. Jeeeeez.

Charles, did you even know that?

Link, please. I saw clips in which none of that was said--perhaps it was edited out of the clips I saw.

I didn't hear them introduce the images as being photoshopped. In either case, it's still disturbing and stupid. Not to mention that jokes are supposed to be funny. And this one is not even close.

re: #12 Killian Bundy

/the whole picture is darker, not just the teeth

The teeth are YELLOWED.

re: #134 FreedomNeocon

FYI for the people who didn't see the spot on FOX (apparently most of the comments so far) the frickin' hosts introduced the pictures as photoshopped pictures on a story about how they were photoshopped.
Not like they tried to just put them up or act like they were real, they said OUTRIGHT they were photoshopped. Jeeeeez.

Charles, did you even know that?

Still waiting for a link.

re: #134 FreedomNeocon

FYI for the people who didn't see the spot on FOX (apparently most of the comments so far) the frickin' hosts introduced the pictures as photoshopped pictures on a story about how they were photoshopped.
Not like they tried to just put them up or act like they were real, they said OUTRIGHT they were photoshopped. Jeeeeez.

Charles, did you even know that?

I see that this is your first comment, even though you have been registered for three months. And you won't provide a link to support your Moby comment. But I'll bet you are posting links TO that comment on whatever lefty blog you came from.

Buh-Bye.

re: #29 Egfrow

I used to be neutral about O'Reilly. Ever since he started attacking Capitalism by going after corporations such as the Pharms, and the Oil industry as the pure blame for all our problems, he is more deserving of the Pinhead award, I now consider him a Jackass.

He's always been a populist.

Time for a nap. See those of you who are still awake on the late evening DT. CHARLES! Where the hell is the Early Morning Open thread? The hamsters go on strike or did the script crash?

Regardless, May you you all have a good night.

These modifications were made to have a little fun at the Slimes' expense. Hey, they even put one of the faces on a poodle! Seems pretty obvious to me.

re: #129 MajorPribluda

Yes, much like the Fox News Channel itself.

Perhaps, but judging that by the (arguably) least serious, deliberately full of fluff and bullshit, show on the network doesn't make much sense to me. Personally, I think that Brit Hume and Chris Wallace are two of the best news guys on television, and Red Eye is absolutely hilarious. On the other hand, John Gibson and Bill O'Reilly are dangerous fools. Overall, FNC is still the best news channel out there in my opinion, and I'm not gonna throw that opinion under the bus over one stupid joke on FNC's answer to Regis Philbin.

I'm extremely disappointed in Fox recently. I really liked having, if not totally, at least a little more "fair and balanced" alternative to CNN et al.

All I've got left is NPR, fer chrissakes.

Good grief.
Repeat after me, Fox--you don't alter photos.
Even if it was ethical, even for a joke, which it isn't, it is stupid, because you WILL get caught.

Just bizarre. Did they think people wouldnt notice?

And if it was on purpose, what was the point?

If they had just put his UNALTERED face on the poodle, I wouldn't even care. But changing them to make them look "weird" is just wrong IMO.

Right, the fact that the head was superimposed on a dog's body is A-okay but put dark circles under the eyes of the head superimposed on the dog's body and Fox&Friends has crossed some sacred journalist line.

The people who look stupid are those like the Huffpost that actually featured this as their top headline and feigned outrage that this was some breach of journalistic ethics. Fox's morning zoo-light show did this as a JOKE. A very obvious joke-to everyone not dumber than a rock. The head of one of the men was in the place of a dog's head. That should have been the first clue. Is this LGF or Huffpo?

So, its common practice on the left by moderates and the right don't get to do it? There's fair and balanced for you.

re: #147 arizona9

If they had just put his UNALTERED face on the poodle, I wouldn't even care. But changing them to make them look "weird" is just wrong IMO.

Right, the fact that the head was superimposed on a dog's body is A-okay but put dark circles under the eyes of the head superimposed on the dog's body and Fox&Friends has crossed some sacred journalist line.

The people who look stupid are those like the Huffpost that actually featured this as their top headline and feigned outrage that this was some breach of journalistic ethics. Fox's morning zoo-light show did this as a JOKE. A very obvious joke-to everyone not dumber than a rock. The head of one of the men was in the place of a dog's head. That should have been the first clue. Is this LGF or Huffpo?

Please. I heard them use the phrase attack dog. Putting an unaltered pic on a dog is actually funny, it fits the joke.
Look at that pic at the top of this thread. If you're OK with them putting that up, I feel bad for you.

Geez, when the MSM gets caught doing worse, it's just a "mistake".

Dumb move by Fox though if they did it on purpose.

By any chance, does Media Matters think the Rather Papers are real?

"Fox and Friends" is a lame attempt at a "Morning Zoo" type show. I cannot watch it. It falls woefully short at delivering morning news and it's hosts seem more like former weather reporters than political commentators. I actually prefer CNN Headline News in the morning because they do what they say, headline news. Plus, Robin Meade is the best looking news babe ever.

That is pathetic. I want Fox to be better than that. Screw the rest of them and their faux news, fox should never stoop to their stupid games. Shame on you Fox!

And that is one reason why I don't watch FOX News anymore.

Actually there may be another reason altogether as to why the reporters faces were mangled.
Go to: [Link: pbickford.wordpress.com...]

The clue is that video pixels have a different ratio than jpeg pixels.

re: #154 John Costello

Actually there may be another reason altogether as to why the reporters faces were mangled.
Go to: [Link: pbickford.wordpress.com...]

The clue is that video pixels have a different ratio than jpeg pixels.

This looks like a lot more than just differing aspect ratios and color balances to me.

In the picture above there are several sections of the image that were VERY obviously distorted out of proportion with some kind of Photoshop tool (there are several ways to do it) -- the chin, the nose (look at that thing!), the ears and the hair, all distorted to appear larger. This would not happen simply by transferring an image from one aspect ratio to another.

In the other photo I didn't post, the distortions are just as obvious. The forehead is pulled up to the point where the hair begins to blur.

It's deliberate as all heck.

re: #155 Charles

It's deliberate as all heck.

No kidding.

"That fellow right there, the reporter for the New York Times..."
--Steve Doocy, FOX and Friends

Anyone want to give Doocy and Kilmeade the fauxtoshop treatment?

(I sense a FARK thread.)

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