Bush flipping the bird: IS THIS REAL? Does Bush flip many taxpayers?

[jackstraw45]

I remember the story of Pennsylvania protesters claiming Bush flipped them off from his bus. There was a blurry photo but I'm wondering if Bush, whose salary, planes, security & food is ALL paid for by US, flips off a lot of Americans?

THIS IS NOT MY PHOTO but it is taken from this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=2287623&mesg_id=2287623

[jpgray]

1. Looks photoshopped to me, (nt)

[MattPinNC]

2. photoshopped

... and a bad one at that ...

vvv

[oscar111]

3. how can u tell? for sure?

[Nederland]

6. The colors are wrong

Look at the color of his middle digit and then look at the color of the rest of his hand.

[tridim]

8. Look at the color of his face

and then look at his fingers.. Same color. The rest of his hand is darker because it's in shadow. If it's a photoshop, it's VERY well done.

Edit: I just looked at it up close and it is photoshopped. The blurring of the lower part of the middle finger is obvious when zoomed, but not so much at actual size.

[jono]

9. Also - the angle of the thumb is way off. (nt)

[tridim]

5. It might be, but

how can you say it's "bad"? It looks perfect to me. Can you point out a few of the tell-tale signs?

[Philostopher]

7. The image is pretty blurry around where they grafted the raised finger on.

Usually, when something is grafted into a picture using photo manipulation software, the person doing the grafting will blur the immediate area to cover up the graft lines. Smart editing would have been to blur the entire hand to match the spot, but whoever did this one didn't blur far enough away -- it's obvious where the finger was grafted in.

[cheshire]

4. Did someone ask him his IQ?