Just how low won't they go? (Last update 2006.09.30.00:27) Contributed by Bill Faith
The first four items below were originally posted in slightly different order as part of .
Allahpundit
I make when I do “head transfer” photoshops, too. You’d be surprised how hard it is to judge the size and how even minor adjustments to it can make the new image look absurd. Whoever was responsible for the fake Michelle bikini shot shrunk the ’shopped-in head a bit to reflect the fact that the woman in the picture is leaning backward, such that her upper extremities should appear slightly smaller than the rest of the body. But he/she overdid it, and so you’re left with that Reuters-worthy abortion.
There are two ways we could play this, I guess. One: call a libel lawyer, point them to Alex Pareene’s earlier post about Michelle and ping-pong balls, and see if we can’t fashion a little “actual malice” from the pattern here. Or two: fire with fire. It’d be a shame to have to go that route, but this nonsense has to stop.
I promise you this, though. If it does come to that, the shocking! new! photos! we “discover” and circulate will be a lot more convincing than that amateur-hour crap currently running on Gawker Inc.
Here’s the Michelle wrote about Charlotte Church that inspired all this, ...
Michelle Malkin
I have blogged before about . and his friends at have sunk to a new low (Guess insulting me with wasn't enough). As a response to my column this week on , they post a picture of a woman in a bikini that they claim is me (I wish I looked that good in a bikini): ...
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The idiots are so blinded by hate they can't see a two-bit Photoshop from some hater's bogus Flickr site? And they couldn't bother to ask me before attempting to embarrass me and calling me a slut?
You embarrass yourselves.
Rather than demand that they take their lying lies down, I am asking that they leave their smears up for all the world to see.
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I am also filing a complaint with UNC School of Law . the dean's contact information. This has gone too far. ...
Bryan Preston
Yes, I’ve seen the photo the . I saw it for the first time a few months ago when some loving, tolerant leftwinger emailed it to us here. It took me about 2.5 seconds to determine that whoever is in that photo, it’s not Michelle. Having worked with graphics for a number of years now, I have an eye for fakery, and that is as fake as an Adnan Haj classic. She and I talked about it a day or two after the loving, tolerant lefty emailed it to us and got a laugh out of it.
Well, a certain professor turned stalker and a conglomeration of guttersnipe blogs have tried today to pass that fauxtoshop off as the real thing. You’d think someone over in Nick Denton’s cesspool might have a decent eye for photo fakery, but apparently this one was just too good to check. So they’re running with it.
And while it’s one thing to get taken in by a hoax, as they all clearly have been, it’s another thing entirely to run with that hoax and turn it into a libel that is all your very own. That magnifies the offense quite a bit, at least to me. ...
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Ed Morrissey
It's almost too pathetic to post a response, but the Wonkette benchwarmers really have no clue about weblogs, photoshops, or criticism -- and their on exposes them as wanna-bes. Michelle penned a cultural critique about the potential effect of trashy chic on young girls, as exemplified by Bratz dolls and the recent restyling of . Rather than actually responding with any intellectual criticism, Wonkette instead posted a picture that supposedly depicts Michelle in a bikini in 1992 -- as if that has anything to do with her critique of Charlotte Church.
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Now, I've met Michelle Malkin and spent time at her house. In fact, I've seen her standing next to a fridge a couple of times, and I can tell you that Michelle is significantly shorter than the woman in this photograph. ...
Michelle Malkin
I have had a nice afternoon with my family. I was not going to post on the lying hate-mongers again, but they will not stop. If they think I am going to shut up about their continued , think again.
I sent this e-mail to the Wonkette editors at 8:13am Eastern:
From: Michelle Malkin
Mailed-By: gmail.com Reply-To: writemalkin@gmail.com To: tips@wonkette.com Date: Sep 29, 2006 8:13 AM Subject: It's a photoshop, you idiots
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/006012.htm
Hours after my post noting that the photo was fake was published, Wonkette's sister site, , went ahead and published this: ...
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Allahpundit
Feel free to participate, but please: make sure your contributions are obviously false.
Because when you post things that are false without making clear they’re false, that’s called “libel.”
For example, ...
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John Hinderaker
It's hard to say. Right now, it's like a limbo contest in which they're already underground. The latest is an absurd photoshop job of ostensibly wearing a bikini in a "Girls Gone Wild" pose. Several problems, though: 1) Michelle's head is obviously too small for the attached body; 2) anyone who has spent 30 seconds with Michelle would know that the large, beefy body to which her head has been crudely photoshopped is not hers; and 3) Michelle is much, much better looking than this: ...
Contributed by Bill Faith on September 29, 2006 at 04:41 PM in , , |
