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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: i-node who wrote (419731)9/25/2008 12:16:53 AM
From: tejek   of 1574315
 
This photo is the basis for the latest hatemail from Republicans re. Obama. Obama's head has been photoshopped onto the shoe shine's head and Palin's head has been photoshopped onto the woman's head:



This is what the Aussie photographer of the original photo has to say about it......of course, he's upset:

"Shoeshine - homeless and a woman client MG_6348-27
It is not often that I would post the same image twice in my stories. However , this photo of the homeless man and a women has become part of dirty tricks in American presidential campaign.

Someone has doctored this image to portrait Barack Obama as the shoeshine man and Sara Palin as his customer. This altered image is being circulated via email in USA. The perpetrator of this plagiarism left my copyright notice, which contains the address of this website, thus implying it was my original work. This is quite a low act as it involuntarily involves me and my photographic work in American presidential campaign, which I honestly do not know much about nor do I follow it. I certainly do not have favourite views either for American Democrats or Republicans.

I would like to assure both senator Barack Obama and Alaska’s Governor Sarah Palin that the altered image has not been created, authorised, endorsed or distributed by me.

It is quite shameful someone had to escape to plagiarism and imply my involvement. Yes, I do have a copy of the doctored image but I will not publish it.
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