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SD31 Nuncio says pictures photoshopped

by: matt

Wed Jul 19, 2006 at 22:19:01 PM EDT


UPDATE by Matt:



This picture was taken from a smashleftwingscum.com post recounting a 2005 interaction between the allegedly maligned SD31 candidate and the Mayor of Lansing, Virg Bernero. Your can read the post here - or here, after it gets taken down.

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According to today's (subscription only) Gongwer report, SD31 candidate Zack Nuncio (R-Bay City) claims the Smash Leftwing Scum "Fight Night" photos of him are fake:
While Mr. Nuncio at first said he did not authorize any photos taken, he then insisted he was never present at a party where boxing took place and that he never participated in a boxing match.

Instead he said his picture had probably been "photoshopped" into the scenes.(Photoshop is a highly popular software package that allows users to manipulate photographs).
Hmm...any forensic image experts out there? I've magnified the images to take a closer look and to my untrained eye, either they have one heckuva of good photoshop wizard or Nuncio is full of it. Take a look. Whad'ya think?

BTW, as Hy Dudgeon pointed out so well, next time remember the first rule of Fight Club: don't talk about Fight Club!
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BS (4.00 / 1)
BS, that's obviously him and he's trying to cover for it.  Why on earth would a Republican want to photoshop him into the pictures?  Lame excuse.

Check out my mediocre blog.

Liars do as we expect liars to do (4.00 / 2)
Whoa ... a Republican telling a blantant lie?  Geez ... George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Jack Abramoff, Tom Daschle, Duke Cunningham, .... um, yeah, do I really need to go on?  They've all done a good job teaching their fellow freedom-hating Republicans that lying is good for business.

Tom Daschle? (0.00 / 0)
I'm assuming you mean DeLay ;-)

The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few

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Oops.... (0.00 / 0)
I had a brain fart there, obviously.  What can I say ... I'm getting old and forgetful.  Yes.... DeLay.  Sorry Mr. Daschle ....

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Suuuure...he ust happened to have... (4.00 / 1)
...a half-dozen photos of himself boxing someone ELSE at a DIFFERENT location, which some fellow Republican just happened to get ahold of, and just happened to have another half-dozen photos of the other guy boxing someone ELSE which just happened to be in roughly the corresponding positions on the page.

I've seen some damned impressive Photoshopping skills in my time, but whoever did this one would have to be the best in the world to get every angle and shadow perfectly right.


Exactly (4.00 / 1)
Lighting is the best way to tell if a photo has been altered. It's almost impossible to get the intensity and direction just right.

I have Photoshop Elements. I blew up a few of those pictures and didn't find any trace of alteration in the pixels.


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he's just scared (4.00 / 1)
because he lost

It probably goes without saying... (4.00 / 1)
...but I think Sen. Barcia (D-Bay City) will probably win re-election this year.

The first rule of Fight Club: Don't talk about Fight Club.

"Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never." - Winston S. Churchill

Nuncio not knocking on doors..... (4.00 / 1)
At least we can rest assured that Nuncio hasn't been spending his days working himself into shape knocking on doors in D-31!

Checking for Photoshop (4.00 / 3)
The easiest way to check, short of using sophisticated algorithms, is to adjust the brightness and/or contrast to extremes.  If you see edge-banding or new objects revealed – you may have a case where the image was adjusted. 

Also look for pixels of different sizes (they should all be the same), features that "re-appear" when you adjust color levels, repeated portions of a photograph and black spots when things are deleted.


No Costners in sight (0.00 / 0)
Since when did Virg have bodyguards? Although I think sometimes he should consider it....

Maybe the guy caught a blurry glimpse of his reflection in his beer glass and thought it was a burly bouncer.

-7.38 -4.36


He looks like Flounder from "Animal House" (0.00 / 0)
(Insert your favorite Dean Woermer quote here.)

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul.

OK (4.00 / 1)
"Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son."

>:>


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