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[Luminous Animal]

64. It is looking more and more that the DKos diarist is lying...

Other Dkos members who were there say it never happened and the protesters weren't Teabaggers but climate protesters who were convivial on nonthreatening.

Um, okay. So ... the detective work isn't that

hard. If you follow the link to the picture, you can read the URL in your browser's Location field. it is this:

www.11alive.com/images/640/360/2/assetpool/photogallery/277644/prezvisit_29 .jpg

Which is pretty obviously some sort of TV station website, and which has pretty clearly labeled this as the 29th photo in a series related to the President's visit.

You can then go directly to the main website, www.11alive.com, and follow the links to the original gallery, where you will see the photo captioned thusly:

People run up Sycamore Street to greet President Obama's motorcade (Julie Wolfe, 11Alive News)

You can furthermore move back in forth in the gallery and find another photo that shows that the people in the photo are primarily left-wing critics of the President. Which, by the way, is exactly what you'd think just from the way their appearance.

If anything unpleasant did happen, it is not documented in this particular news report.

From the comments

I was there, and this is a gross misrepresentation

The crowd was upbeat, a great vibe, no evidence whatsoever of baggers or people hurling racial slurs. The only protesters I saw were some amusing folks dressed up in elephant costumes who were there to protest the Ringling Bros./Barnum & Bailey Circus and their treatment of pachyderms.

Nearly sixteen hours after it first appeared...

...this suspicious and unsourced diary now has 1,000 Facebook likes and 32 tips despite the fact its author, who has a breif record of incendiary posts, has not graced us with the update that he promised.