Photoshopped Propaganda bashes democrats: [Picture shows soldiier holding baby: orginal shows blood and stethascope ... both wiped out]

Forums - Photoshopped Propaganda: "Photoshopped Propaganda" January 29th, 2005

I recently came across the picture above. It is located at a website run by artist and writer Linda Eddy. According to this site, it is their mission "[t]o hold the Democrat presidential candidates accountable for their comments & allegations against President George W. Bush, to make citizens aware of false statements or claims by the Democrat candidates, and to defend the Bush Administration and set the record straight when the Democrats make false or misleading statements about the Bush-Republican record."

When browsing Eddy's site one inmediately notices the heavy pro-Republican stance of it. Now there's nothing wrong with that, as long as it doesn't distort reality. Unfortunately, that is exactly what Linda Eddy does.

Apart from the obvious fact that the picture has been photoshopped, also the familiarity of the scene depicted caught my eye. I did some Google-searches and soon came up with a non-photoshopped version of the picture:

Navy Corpsman Richard Barnett of Camarilo, Calif. checks the heart of a young Iraqi boy as other Navy medics treat the boy's older sister, right, after the two children and their family were caught in a crossfire between US Marines and Iraqi soldiers just outside of a Marine encampment in central Iraq on Saturday, March 29, 2003

It is really nice to see how Linda Eddy tries to bring back the ethics into the political campaigning of the Democrat presidential candidates, but perhaps she should start with herself first before blaming others. Distorting reality for one's own cause by photoshopping pictures isn't only extremely unethical, it is also extremely stupid to do so while the original photograph is widely available on the internet.