*As I've said, I will repost and not drop this until the Times answers for it and fires the responsible party. This is such an obvious photoshop, and I can't believe people are willing to let them get away with this. I've provided more Times email addresses for you to attempt to contact them at the end. I've yet to get a reply.*

*My Fruitless Email Conversation With The Times*
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The other day Little Green Footballs wondered if another Lebanon photo by Tyler Hicks of the NY Times, might be another fauxto. LGF's Charles Johnson who was instrumental in exposing Rathergate, as well as the first Hajj fauxtoshopping scandal, brought the image to our attention, but was obviously less than convinced. Charles simply asked a question, and pretty much left it at that.

Similarly, AllahPundit posted on the image, and attempted to debunk the photoshop theory, and defend the image as real. As time went on, it seemed like the obviousness of the photoshop was becoming apparent to Allah, until in the end he gave up on the grounds that he didn't understand what the motivation would have been.

Let me first say that I have the utmost respect for both of these excellent bloggers, but I feel they chose to be over cautious to maintain credibility that had been built up by the Hajj scandal. I think they felt like they would be going out on a limb if they harped on this. An understandable feeling everyone had when the dust was still settling after Hajjgate. But not understandable, to me, when you look at the image. I posted the other day, and will now continue to until this is resolved.

The controversial image I'm referring to, of course, is the fauxto of Lebanese civilians taking shelter in a hospital in a town called Tibnine (alos Tibneen, Tibnin, and Tibnini), in which a black man's face was CLEARLY photoshopped on to the head of the body of an Arab woman wearing a headscarf. The image remains up at the NY Times' site, and they have not responded to any of my emails.

First take a look at the image below (click for full size):

Here's a cropped and zoomed version of the section in question (courtesy LGF)

And if somehow you still don't see it, look at this negative I created:

Again, Charles Johnson and HotAir's AllahPundit are two of my favorite bloggers who I have a lot of respect for, but I can't understand how they don't see the obvious here. To me, this photoshop job is almost as bad as the Hajj smokescreen.

Note the headscarf you can see emerging from behind where this man's head was obviously pasted. Note that his head is more focused than the rest. Note that he looks like he's wearing 3 different shirts sewn in to one (because the one on the left (his/her right shoulder) is part of the photoshop. Note that even my mother looked at this and saw what a piece of crap photoshop job this is!

I've got to crash, but please, if you can see the obvious here, email the Times at the following email addresses. They seemed the most appropriate of those that I found:

web-editor@nytimes.com
apcar@nytimes.com - Len Apcar Editor, NYTimes on the Web
bogert@nytimes.com - Jeremiah Bogert Staff Editor, Picture desk
witty@nytimes.com - Patrick Witty Staff Editor, Picture Desk

Also, if you are this man or you know this man please email me at randy at rightwinged dot com. Additionally if you've seen this man or the body he's pasted on in other photos, please let me know. The Times got away with the "imprecise" caption in their first exposed Hezbollywood scandal, but they cannot be allowed to get out of this one without someone's head rolling.