John Moltz

Lying about their lying

Bush Campaign Acknowledges Ad Was Doctored

Shoot. I was kind of hoping they'd say "No. All those soldiers really do look alike!" I'm kind of disappointed in them.

But, there's always room for some lyin' about sumpin'!

"It was completely unintentional," [I totally didn't mean to click the clone tool! I wanted the lasso!] he said. "The ad has already been replaced." [Oh, well, good, then it's all settled and...]

The ad still appeared on the front page of the campaign's Web site as of Thursday afternoon.

Whoops! And...

Dickens said, "There was no attempt to mislead."

Uh... yeah! The deliberate Photoshopping of an image to make it appear that there were more soldiers in the crowd than there were was somehow... educational! Not misleading!

Although, to be fair to Dickens, maybe he meant that while there was no attempt to mislead, but there was a deliberate attempt to lie. That could have been what he meant.