We Are the 53% is Using Fake Images

[kpete]

SAT OCT 15, 2011 AT 12:48 AM PDT
We Are the 53% is Using Fake Images
bySpin ThisFollow

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I was looking through the blog after seeing it on Real Time and noticed this guy:

Djangu Mutambe
http://the53.tumblr.com/post/11440649975

After rolling my eyes at the derp, I thought that something didn't look right. The piece of paper he was allegedly holding up was way too big to be held up that straight. It looked like it was being pressed against glass. It would be impossible to hold up a piece of paper that big without a little wave or bend to it. So, using my less than rudimentary MS Paint skills, I clipped his right shoulder, flipped it and gave him a left shoulder. Then I blurred out some of the sign by copying the grey wall background. I created something resembling a neck by using copied sections of his skin, did the same with creating a shirt and ran it through Google images.

Voila.
http://www.abujacity.com/abuja_and_beyond/2010/09/an-open-letter-to-the-people-of-oyo-state-by-adewale-t-akande.html

Turns out Mr. Djangu Mutambe is actually Mr. Adewale T Akande of Spain. He's a Road and Traffic Safety Consultant and a pretty prolific blogger about his life in Spain.

Articles by This Author
http://www.nigeriansinamerica.com/authors/441/Adewale-T.-Akande

While the blog is called "Nigerians in America", all of Mr. Akande's writings reflect his current residency as being in Spain, including a blog posted in August.

So, it appears Eric Erickson, who started this Tumblr, has some explaining to do. I wouldn't be at all surprised to find out other "53 percenters" aren't who they appear to be.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/15/1026620/-We-Are-the-53-is-Using-Fake-Images?via=siderec


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timestamp shows the photo was taken in Feb of 2009, at the very latest. Idiots. No wonder America is such a fucking mess when morans like this show up to vote by the millions.

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[xchrom]

1. recommend

[EFerrari]

2. LOL! Eric Erickson is running a Nigerian scam.

[stevedeshazer]

3. Instant classic.

+1

[tularetom]

4. There was an earlier post about this

Which provided a pretty interesting explanation of how the fraud was discovered.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2121926

[sce56]

5. Talk about loading in the stereotypes!

She is a ex-addict and obese Mexican American. If she is that dumb of course she is not old enough to remember the Frito Bandido!

Is this her?





There was only one person that came up in a google search with the name Shyanna Busch http://www.myspace.com/chilibean13

If that is here then she is just plain old dumb to use an old photo but she is conservative despite liking Paul Newman on her my space page!

[rugger1869]

6. What is this "my space?"

:eyes:

[The Doctor.]

7. Dang, Open Office won't let me create a picture

in a format compatible with photobucket. I drew something up really quick with a side-by-side showing the lie.

[The Doctor.]

9. Here we go; Something to pass around...

[TheMadMonk]

27. Can save a PP slide as a JPG IIRC.

Or you can cut and paste a slide into Paint and let Windows worry about the bit fiddlin'.

[a simple pattern]

8. Some of the entries seem to be disappearing

Internet Republicans seem to be as fictitious as Republican voters

[friendly_iconoclast]

12. Time to start war-caching them, folks n/t

[ThatsMyBarack]

10. How did they come up with that number: 53%

[Ahpook]

21. Wondering that myself

More than likely some dreamed up percentage saying they are the majority. In other words, just another load of bullshit coming from these parasites.

[Hydra]

24. Yup

Too small to question(unlike the 87% of liberals...), but supposedly the ratio that Republican Presidents win by.

Also, I think, a sideways slam at the 47% who supposedly don't pay taxes like me.

[tea and oranges]

30. Blame the Needy One More Time

Nothing sideways about it - it's meant to be a direct hit. Erickson wants the poor blamed for the shortage of federal funds, not the rich folks he's sucking up to. Above all, the toadies are trying to control us, once again, as they have wont to do, by raising the level of hatred so that we turn on one another, but wouldn't it be funny if we turned it back on them? Oh wait, we are, at long last we are!

[ThatsMyBarack]

37. Welcome to DU, tea and oranges!

:hi:

[Enthusiast]

41. Erickson isn't sucking up.

He's an employee. Welcome to the DU.

[Pacifist Patriot]

33. There was a claim that 53% of Americans pay taxes in support of the other 47%

It's bullshit of course, but the meme took off amongst the sheeple.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/14/business/economy/14leonhardt.html

[JoePhilly]

39. Its part of a right wing talking point .... the claim is that only 53% pay income taxes.

and that the other 47% don't pay any income taxes at all because they don't make enough.

Even if try, most of these dopes describe a financial situation in which they are literally at the BOTTOM of that 53%.

So basically we have a people at the bottom of the 53% fighting for the people in the top 1%.

Fools.

[SomethingFishy]

55. It's from the "47% of Americans don't pay taxes" meme

they are supposedly the other 53%. The whole thing is a crock of shit. They are angry because they think working 2 or 3 jobs and still not having enough money to support your family is really cool man, and people who don't want to work 100 hours a week to make 40 or 50 grand a year are all lazy hippies.

[LoZoccolo]

11. K&R!

:kick:

[supernova]

13. LOL! When are the righties going to realize

we have better internet skills than they do?

Whatever slimeball tactic they can come up with, we will call them on it?

[Champion Jack]

14. K & R---Good work

[FarLeftFist]

15. ALOT of pixelation around that woman's fake words and CHRIST, min. wage for 5 YEARS?!

Does she know it's possible to be part of the 53% AND part of the 99%?!

[bleever]

16. Please also see my question about the "Marine":

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2123193

Thanks.

[zalinda]

17. The marine looks to be altered

Well, not actually the marine, but the piece of paper and hand that is holding it up. When I enlarged the pic in Irfanview the marine pixelated at a different rate than the paper and hand.

zalinda

[yardwork]

38. The paper and hand pixelated differently? Doesn't surprise me. Those are the fake parts.

The edge of the paper has obviously been altered. The hand doesn't look like it's attached to the Marine's body, and the skin tone and texture look different, and the hand is in a different scale from the body. Very amateurish photoshop.

[alp227]

18. in other news, Republicans astroturf their bases.

They win elections by repression, not true debate.

They gain support for their corporate cronies and intimidate lawmakers by paying people to post on message boards/blogs/websites (we might've seen that kind of stuff round here), call into talk shows (I've heard some paid callers on Thom Hartmann several times), and act in repeating corporate talking points yet pretending to be a "concerned average American".

[justiceischeap]

19. I have no doubt that some (if not most of these are shopped)

but I'd like to point out that the date on the woman's photo could be wrong because the setting in the camera is wrong.

[penndragon69]

20. The FASCIST ministry of PROPAGANDA

is working overtime again.
These must have been created by some of Carl Rove's
minimum wage staff flunkies!

[Quixote1818]

22. Holy Crap! Great Work! Laughing my ass off! Big K and R nt

[MisterP]

23. furthermore, the "fingertips" holding up some of the "papers"

are actually miniaturized penises
naw, just kidding
KnR

[Kaleko]

25. Good work. Four thumbs up.

[The Backlash Cometh]

26. The one of the girl is definitely photoshopped.

The date on the photo isn't even this year.

[Scurrilous]

28. K & R

:thumbsup:

[Uber DUer]

29. You know where I'm thinking they are getting the pics from?

Remember when there was a bunch of "I'm sorry" posts a few years ago?

I think it was 2006 or 2004.

I think the Republicans stole a bunch of them and photoshopped a lot of these.

[chill_wind]

32. Don't know, but here are the sites.

Stuff in the foreground looks huge in these, too.

Though I don't doubt there's plenty of asshattery going on with the copycats.



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http://sorryeverybody.com/



http://sorryeverybody.com/2008/

[EdMaven]

31. Can someone tell me how you "run an image through google images"?

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35. This way...

Pretty cool feature...

http://www.google.com/insidesearch/searchbyimage.html

[EdMaven]

47. thank you

[bettyellen]

46. Findi the matching images through Goggle Images rop

Google images search: At the end of the space where you would enter your search terms is a little blue camera. When you click on that, you can either search by url or upload an image and it finds all the images that resemble yours.

Good luck!

[EdMaven]

48. thanks

[bettyellen]

53. de nada!

[fascisthunter]

34. LOL!

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36. Tumblr page is gone as of this AM...

Modified: Sunday, October 16, 2011 10:41:05 AM

:rofl:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

40. oh.the irony. k&r

[bvar22]

42. I'm not a handwriting expert, BUT...

I'm willing to bet that the same person printed both of signs.

Here is a sample comparison of "The 53%" from each graphic in the OP.



What do you think?
Same forger/propagandist?

[Botany]

43. Nice job on this one

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A women's hand holding is holding up the note :rofl:

[Scruffy1]

44. Liberals never learn.

They spend all their time and energy chasing right wing spooks and phantoms instead of doing useful things like organizing and direct action.

[bettyellen]

45. based on this I'd inspect images of non white non male not wage slaves, LOL

they'll do anything to fake diversity, won;t they?

[Cityflavour]

49. RE : http://the53.tumblr.com are using fake photo

Hi, this picture was actually stolen from my site after twitting.

have tried to get the53.tumblr contact. but proved abortive.

They breach my copyright to fool Americans and i have to sue them.


This is the article they stole the picture from and i can prove it: http://www.cityflavourmagazine.com/?p=6920

[cbayer]

50. Do you object to it being posted here?

[Cityflavour]

51. RE : http://the53.tumblr.com are using fake photo

No am in favour of it being posted here. i just want people to know that it true that the 53 are using stolen pics

[Tsiyu]

52. Welcome to DU Cityflavour

things are moving fast in GD, so thought I'd kick this to confirm the OP's headline.

:kick:

[shanti]

54. they just don't get it, do they?

:eyes:

[seabeyond]

56. they dont even get how meaningless it is that the proclaim. good for them. as with the majority of

us in the u.s. we, too, have done all of this.

that is not the point. that is not the issue. and that does not solve the problems.