I was duped. Even though I take a critical eye to political language in this blog, I failed to take that same critical eye to the use of political imagery in my previous post. That got me thinking about how much political imagery gets faked and more importantly, how much of it is the general public even aware of?

Photographer Jim Goldstein writes about recent political photo manipulation and also links back to Dartmouth University Professor Hany Farid’s impressive collection of Photo Tampering Throughout History. Make sure you click on the images there to see the original and the manipulated result side by side. It’s amazing how many iconic images there are that are fakes.

On the political language front, Author John Ridley writes an impressive post demonstrating how Republicans change characterization of similar circumstances facing their nominee and the Democratic nominee to fit their political perspective.

Voter beware!