Shades of Stalin - Bush pays to have Abramoff photo deleted

[tinrobot]

A photograpy studio which admitted to scrubbing at least one photograph of President George Bush and disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff was paid more that $140,000 by the Bush/Cheney campaign in 2004, RAW STORY has learned.

Reflection Studios president Joanne Amos told Joshua Michah Marshall of Talking Points Memo that a "business decision" led the company to remove a photograph taken in late 2003 that is believed to feature Bush and Abramoff together. According to Amos, the photograph is "not relevant."

Another blog reported that Amos donated $2,000 to President Bush in 2003 and $2,000 to the Republican National Committee in 2004.

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Studio_that_scrubbed_photo_earned_140000_0126.html

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For some reason, this really reminds me of the old Soviet practice of altering photos to remove unfavorable people from official photographs.

Scary.

[Earth_First]

1. In 2004 you say?

Well then...

[uppityperson]

2. We've always been at war with Eastasia

[orwell]

11. Hey...

...that's my line...

[mattclearing]

24. LOL n/t

[Earth_First]

14. 1984 Chapter 4:

http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwell/george/o79n/chap4.html

"And the Records Department, after all, was itself only a single branch of the Ministry of Truth, whose primary job was not to reconstruct the past but to supply the citizens of Oceania with newspapers, films, textbooks, telescreen programmes, plays, novels—with every conceivable kind of information, instruction, or entertainment, from a statue to a slogan, from a lyric poem to a biological treatise, and from a child’s spelling-book to a Newspeak dictionary."

[chat_noir]

25. Photoshopper needed!

Just watched 1984 a couple of weeks ago. It left me thoroughly depressed.

[Botany]

3. LOL

"They" can't get all of them.

And as the poster above noted ....... 2004???????????????

[w13rd0]

4. A photo of a sitting president...

..."not relevant"...yeah, right-o. sell me another f'n bridge why dontcha...

[joefree1]

5. The more they say the photos are "not relevant"

The more they convince everyone that they are relevant.

[eve_was_framed]

17. and I hope it sinks them too!

[Ksec]

6. for bush to say

he doesnt know abramoff is ridiculous. Abramoff was one of his best contributors and was part of the elite pioneers (or whatever thats called for huge contributors)

Has there ever been a bigger liar in office ? Gad, its so obvious.

[FreedomAngel82]

8. Yep

And don't forget the story of Bush and him talking about raising twins and Bush knowing the kids name and him appearing at staff level meetings. But nahh Bush doesn't know him. For whatever reason whenever I think of Bush and Abramoff I'm reminded of the Mohammad Atta story. :shrug:

[MADem]

15. Well, it IS true that he doesn't know JACK...!!! n/t

[FreedomAngel82]

7. It's very interesting

If Abramoff isn't such a threat to Bush why are they going through all this trouble and paying all this money to get rid of evidence?

[0007]

9. Why? It will go hand in hand with the rest of history


Prescott Bush with his business bud Adolf

[FreedomAngel82]

10. That picture isn't real is it?

[0007]

16. As far as I know it is....

[bbinacan]

18. Looks photoshopped. n/t

[0007]

20. How can you tell?

[bbinacan]

21. Look at the lighting and

the contrast. Notice where these change in a vertical fashion between the two. I could be wrong, but that's how it looks to me.

[bbinacan]

22. Also, the picture of

Bush seems crisper while Hitler's looks more grainy. My brother's fairly good at photoshop so I'll send it to him for his opinion.

[0007]

23. Let me know after the inspection....PM me

[bbinacan]

27. Will do. n/t

[bbinacan]

28. I just spoke to my brother and

he said he'll look at the pic tomorrow(his kids are a handfull tonight). I'll let you know what he thinks. He's done some good photoshop stuff. I'll try to find an example.

[bbinacan]

34. This is his opinion

Clearly it is faked. Prescott Bush has a shadow on the left side of his face. Hitler's on the right (and less pronounced). In addition, George H.W. Bush is 6'4". I can't imagine his dad was as short as Hitler. Proportionally, Hitler is just too large. He's much wider than Prescott. They were both pretty skinny. The picture has been shrunk to help hide the flaws. To my eye, the lighting on Prescott is more natural. Hitler looks like flash photography.

They've made an attempt to put a shadow behind Bush on the wall. But the shadow is to the left of the picture, while the light hitting Bush is clearly coming from the left - it would cast the shadow the other way.


As you requested, I'll also PM you.

[Burried News]

12. Yeah George we know - national security required it.

[Joe for Clark]

13. Indeed.

[peacetalksforall]

19. Of course, he doesn't know him - by his real name - since George

always uses nicknames. Someone ask George if he knows xxxxxx. Or - it could be that when DeLay talked to George about Jack, he used a code name. Someone ask George if he knows Jack by his code name?

[Cha]

26. It's hard to believe that there

aren't ANY photos of the photo-op kid/aka/the crawford coward ..out there with jack off!!!!

[The Backlash Cometh]

29. Oh my God. Is this equivalent to tampering with evidence?

[Senator]

30. Stalinists from the get-go -- you can "ask 'em"

Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything. -- Josef Stalin ...

...and Katherine Harris, James Baker III, Antonin Scalia, Wm. Rhenquist, Clarence Thomas, Wm Kennedy, Sandra Day O'Connor, Ted Olson, John Bolton, Jeb Bush, John Roberts, John Ellis, Tom Feeney, Kenneth Blackwell, John Tanner, R. Alexander Acosta, Hans von Spakovsky and various complicit members of the DC/Euphemedia Analstocracy who've demonstrated their agreement.

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www.january6th.org

[sundancekid]

31. Jackoff - Bushabram; Abrambush - Offjack :: slide, dice :: they MET!

[Supersedeas]

32. $4K says that it might be relevant

[rumpel]

33. This article is misleading, be careful

I read it as you read it in context of the article that the Bush/Cheney campaign according to the original WAPO article spent that amount to have that photo studio take photographs, not to have it scrubbed.
So, technically, the Bush/Cheney campaign own the photos.

original Wapo

$31 Million Spent on Bush's Campaign
President Outspent Democrats, Raised Record $131 Million
By Thomas B. Edsall and Sarah Cohen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, January 30, 2004; Page A06

snip

The campaign has hired a number of Republican polling firms and has paid $30,000 to the Michigan firm Market Strategies; $47,000 to Public Opinion Strategies and $37,000 to American Viewpoint. Voter/Consumer Research Inc. received payments totaling $104,000.

The Bush-Cheney committee has paid $140,000 for photography by Reflections Photography of Falls Church.

Salaries at the campaign vary widely, although most of the top officials get from $3,800 to more than $4,600 in after-tax checks every two weeks. Manager Ken Mehlman gets $3,929; top finance officer Jack Oliver gets $4,213; political director Terry Nelson receives $4,684; and communications director Nicolle Devenish gets $3,800. Mary Cheney, daughter of Vice President Cheney, gets $2,776.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A62319-2004Jan30¬Found=true

[savemefromdumbya]

35. Photos too important for ALL of them to be destroyed

they are out there!