I don't want to repeat myself, so if you aren't caught up on this, read my previous post. Here's the gist though... We've seen the MSM photoshop and mess with photos of Republicans in the past, and often sneakily take photos with words in the background to send subliminal messages, and this photo of Vice President Dick Cheney appears to be one of those:

Well I just happened upon the site of another blogger by the name of Chris Christner and it seems he may have single handedly blown the lid of something even more disturbing about this photo. It looks like it might have been and outright photoshop job. If this is the case, not only are they trying to send the subliminal message, but they couldn't even get a real photo to do it so they could claim a coincidence!

Chris notes that another photo from the same event doesn't show the word "Retire" behind him at all. I found the link to check out the handful of photos taken at the event, do you see the word "Retire" anywhere besides the photo in question? Incase they decide to pull something and remove them, here they are, linking to their original locations:

Reuters

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AP

Chris was able to find this State Dept. photo that shows the word "Retire" only appears many feet above Cheney's head:

That had to be one heck of a tricky angle to take the photo in question, no? I won't issue a final judgement here, but this seems really fishy.

MORE:
Now that Michelle Malkin is on this, it will get the wider attention it deserves. Maybe now we'll get some sort of response from Reuters.

Others:
Junkyard Blog, Two or Three, Instapunk, Neal Boortz, Shock and Blog, MacStansbury, Gina Cobb, Ed Driscoll, The World According to Nick, Capital Region People, Sensible Mom, Reverse Vampyr, Wuzzadem, High Desert Wanderer, Expose the Left

And again, there's nothing subliminal about this... though I admit that I photoshopped it. Your turn to come clean Reuters.

UPDATE
Chris seems to believe it was possible to actually take this photo (meaning there may not have been photoshopping)... I'm still not convinced and I think it would be in the interests of everyone for Reuters to issue the originals, etc. It just seems like that would have to be a magic camera no matter what type of lens you had and angle you were at. Again, the photoshopping aspect was only piling on to the more obvious subliminal attack. If one is to believe that this was the actual photo (not photoshopped) then you would certainly have to admit that they deliberately took this picture with the word "Retire" above the VP... Trying so hard that they had to crop out part of his neck just to get the desired photo!