The Economist is defending photoshopping a Reuters image of President Obama in the gulf for its recent cover on "Obama v BP."
The magazine used a May 28 photo of Obama on a Louisiana beach with Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen and local parish president Charlotte Randolph. For its cover image, however, The Economist showed only Obama, looking every bit the lonely president with his head down on the beach confronting his crisis...
Here comes the bullshit.
But The Economist insists their intentions were pure in editing the photo, and that it was not an effort to make Obama look alone.
Not terribly convincing, but it is world class B.S.
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