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The Dirty Propaganda War

Posted By Mustapha On January 28, 2007 @ 5:30 pm In Uncategorized | No Comments


Free tutorial: How to discredit a political opponent.

Step 1:
Find a picture of a scary armed Lebanese man from an [1] online news source:


Step 2:
Grab a picture of a demonstration in Lebanon:


Step 3:
Get your opponent’s logo:


Step 4:
Open Photoshop, Slap the logo on the scary man’s shoulder, mask his picture out, play with the colors and saturation and carefully position it on the Lebanon demo pic:

Step 5:
Let your leader hold the picture on TV. (PS: Since the Photoshop job is so lousy, make sure you give him a black-and-white version lest he embarrasses himself)


Job done. Your opponents are now officially tarnished…

It’s sad. The FPM has a history with this kind of image doctoring. Remember the sprayed “FPM car” incident? It was when Canada’s FPM faction showed us a vandalized BMW picture, messed up by orange paint. The FPM [2] said back then that it was a vandalism act by the hatred-driven LF and their -the keyword cometh- ‘militia’ ways:


It turned out that the picture was taken from a [3] website, and that the car was sprayed by a ‘cheated wife’ to spite her husband (Thx blondy for the valuable links).

Here’s a plea to the FPM’s Photoshop artist: You’re welcome to express your talents here in The Beirut Spring. Forgery is serious matter in the real-world.


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URLs in this post:
[1] online news source: http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2006/07/17/lebanon4.jpg
[2] said back then: http://www.tayyarcanada.org/bmw.htm
[3] website: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/07/bmw_auction/