You’ll notice that in the picture of the woman holding the baby, that the baby is also swaddled in a light blue blanket. Could it be that the male/female/whatever has one of those blankets?

Re; The alternate angle shot with the man in the background.

That man is two tall, to light skinned, and has an obvious 5 o’clock shadow.

Just my opinions though.

~V5

This really is a photoshop Allah. I’d put a smiley here, but I’ve used my quota.

I’ve blown it up, because I can’t figure out why this man has something pasted to the back of his head, visible as a white bar on the top of his head and some misc. cloth above his right ear. That’s not a head-covering I’m familar with.

In fact, Hot Air powers-that-be, your new post, the smoking gun? whoever prepared that image had to remove those artifacts. They aren’t forground, and they aren’t background.

The fact that he is wearing womens clothes doesn’t help. Men don’t cover themselves that way, and they don’t cinch below their necks in modesty; those are muslim women’s clothes (regional).

It’s a fake. But I’m surprised by my guess about how it was constructed. I think Randy might be correct: To create that image, you’d have to paste a man’s head onto an image of a muslim woman. Nice call RightWinged; made me actually look.

(And that other woman really does look like Amidala :)

The right half of his garb has fabric with what appears to be signatures ( autographs ) written all over it…or maybe it’s some writing that solves the mystery of this puzzle.

Lol @ the writing solving the puzzle. I called my mom earlier today to check out all what’s been going on in the blogosphere the past couple days, and showed her our new friend. She doesn’t know anything about photoshop, but she could clearly tell that this was not real. Anyway, she saw the writing too, Perchant, and she almost said word for word what you said about that writing solving the mystery.

Here’s my question about that fabric though… Does it remind anyone of a Sean Jean jacket? Or one of the other “hip-hop” clothing jackets? I can’t think if it’s P. Diddy (I hate saying/typing that) or Kanye west or who, but I’ve seen a jacket made out of fabric that looked very much like that before. Still trying to see if I can find anything like it.

Ike Seamans at NBC6.net has written a piece explaining why he believes the news reporting of the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah is so slanted. He opines:
Because almost none of the American television networks have a vast stable of experienced …

Ike Seamans at NBC6.net has written a piece explaining why he believes the news reporting of the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah is so slanted. He opines:
Because almost none of the American television networks have a vast stable of experienced …

Forget the dude at the bottom right. The dudette at the bottom left–that’s Queen Amidala! Come on; that’s clearly Natalie Portman in the character of Amidala.

Questions about.

developing …

Same guy? Different? Two different guys?

It doesn’t matter who any of these “black guys” are, hell it could be Joe Lieberman in blackface paint… it doesn’t change the fact that the Times photo in question is such an obvious photoshop. Check out the enlargement, including the negative I created. I’m this close to saying I’m 100% certain it’s PSed, but skeptics (well, just you really) are the only thing keeping me from going all the way.

I will feel like a real ass if it turns out not to be, but I can’t see how this photo could possibly be real.

If Hicks denies it, how many of you guys will accept his denial?

Or we then in for a round of “Hicks lied”?

You’ll also note he’s wearing a light-blue pullover, similar to the color of the garment draped over photoshop guy’s left shoulder.

Allah, you’re crazy man. You’ve done a great job through all of this, but I’m saddened by the over cautious attitude today, when this is so obviously a photoshop. I will feel like a real ass if it turns out not to be, but I can’t see how this photo could possibly be real. You can see the woman’s scarf all around the back of his pasted head, and all the way down to his chin and tucked in to her shirt.

Even if the man in the blue pullover in the NBC video was the same man who’s head we see in the Times/Hicks photo, it is still a photoshop. I know, what was the purpose, right? But what was the purpose of the Hajj smoke PS? It really didn’t do anything. It was just darker, and a little more.. poorly done and leaving clues by photoshopping buildings.. but would the original or his PS make anyone view the scene differently. I don’t think so. I don’t know the intention of this Times photoshop, but I can’t see how this could possibly be real… what is coming out of the back of the guy’s head?

Possibly related: LGF has a photo from a guy who’s even worse with Photoshop than I am. UPDATE: Allah thinks the photo at LGF isn’t photoshopped: “I really hope I’m wrong with this latest debunking, though. Because now that it’s been on Drudge, if…

With Reutergate underway, Charles Johnson at Little Green Footballs is increasing the blogosphere’s scrutiny of the mainstream media’s photojournalistic output. With the ease of doctoring photos nowadays, it’s amazing how poor some of these Phot…

We may have yet another case of photoshopping, this time at the New York Times. Charles at LGF has the image, and it sure as heck looks to me like they inserted a man’s head in place of a woman.

The question is, why? One comment poses the theory …

Again, I understand the need for caution, but come on! How can anyone not see that this is a photoshop. Just look at the blown up version of the head on LGF, or see my negative of that same blow up. Photoshop all the way. As for the “why”? I have no clue. I still don’t understand the purpose of Hajj’s smoke PS.. it didn’t really change much. All I know is that this is a black man’s face pasted on the head of a woman wearing a headscarf.

Your move NY Times, someone’s head has to roll. Will this be Hicks’s fault? Or is did some editor do this? Will you get the right guy or find a scapegoat? The anticipation is a killer.

When will the MSM hire some competent editors and honest photoshoppers photographers so us bloggers can get some sleep!? LGF has presented us with yet another, shall we say odd, Tyler Hicks photo from the NY Times. Before I get……