Sorry, why is whether Obama bowed to the Saudi King an issue again?
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UPDATED: Monday, May 22, 2017 08:37
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"obviously the source for the lip-lock photoshop"
I will defer to your expertise. I looked at the two photos closely and saw many differences - Bush's eyes and mouth open v eyes and mouth closed, the prince's neck being extended and beard jutting out in one photo v the other, for example. I looked for an obvious shortening of the photo, which would be there if the distance between the two was photographically chopped out. It wasn't here.
To you it may be 'obvious'. To me it isn't. But since you insist, you have the final say.
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Originally posted by rue:
I looked at the two photos closely and saw many differences - Bush's eyes and mouth open v eyes and mouth closed, the prince's neck being extended and beard jutting out in one photo v the other.
All such thing can be altered with the smear or liquefy tool, or pasting and blending in other elements. I have done this many times, so I hope your deference to my expertise is genuine and not facetious.
The biggest problem for me is the hard line between the bodies of the two men. It's a clear indicator of a chop-job, though it has been cropped out in the 'series' you posted. Please stop being tetchy at me and LOOK at it.
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It was photoshopped, get over it. It's about a thirty second job, two minutes if you wanted to use GIMP.
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"The biggest problem for me is the hard line between the bodies of the two men." Uh - where ? No matter where I looked, I couldn't find that. All the photos I could find were cropped the same way.
No, I meant it - I wasn't being being techy. You (and Citizen and I forget who else) obviously have more experience with photo-altering.
And while this
and this
are obvious to me, the one I posted took a more exprienced eye than mine to see it.
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Blown up, with problem areas circled (not well, I had to use the mouse because the GIMP is shit and needs starting and restarting half a dozen times to get it to recognise my tablet. This seems an amateurish problem with many major GPL graphics packages, which is basically unforgivable).
There's a light area around the join, a sign that the faces have bee cut and lifted from a lighter background, and the join hasn't then been merged properly.
A big chunk of the head dress has been cut out, probably a marquee selection error.
The Windscreen has been chopped and duplicated, you can see part of the wiper has been duplicated and pasted lower down. It describes a fairly obvious triangle.
Further this image is clearly shopped from the one posted earlier. The eyes appear closed here, and open in the other, because a flesh colour has been overlayed. Look closely and the eye sockets and surrounding flesh are in the same position. Bush's hair is also identically positioned, you'd expect it to be slightly varied. Bush's mouth is also in the same position, but likewise has been partially hidden and adjusted with a flesh colour.
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So, can we agree that these are at least the equal 'offense' to the office of the president as Obama's 'bow' ?
bowing
bowing
personal fealty
personal fealty
strange \ inappropriate behavior
strange \ inappropriate behavior
strange \ inappropriate behavior
strange \ inappropriate behavior
strange \ inappropriate behavior
strange \ inappropriate behavior
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If you feel you must post the same pics over and over again to make your point . . . it's a bit obsessive.
I'll agree with you on the strange behavior (flipping the bird, chest bump, etc). Not very Presidential.
That second picture you claim is "bowing" to the Saudi Prince, however, is again in a video that I've seen. He bent over to accept the medal being placed around his neck then looked down at the medal. Like most people do when accepting medals to make it easier for the presenter to place it. Not bowing in the way you're implying. If that were the case then all Olympians could be accused of bowing to the medal presenters.
The holding hands and kissing cheeks I've addressed and won't bother to do so again.
I don't know what to make of Obama's gesture, whether it was intentional or not. It's odd beyond words and if he or the White House doesn't feel the need to explain it, then we'll be questioning it for all eternity.
Zoe: "Get it running again."
Mal: "Yeah"
Zoe: "So not running now"
Mal: "Not so much"
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Holy crap, the thread title changing is ridiculously annoying. It'd be nice if at least forum thread titles were what they appear, but maybe that's asking too much. They say nothing is what it appears, but one exception would be nice...
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Bowing is a often a sign of respect not fealty.
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This is too ruttin' funny!!!
The laughing Chrisisall
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