Iran's botched Photoshop job inspires parody

Posted By Blake Hounshell Friday, July 11, 2008 - 4:04 PM Share

Iran's state media faced the withering scorn of the blogosphere yesterday when online sleuths discovered that Sepah News, the voice of Iran's fearsome Revolutionary Guards, had doctored a photograph of the Islamic Republic's oh-so-scary missile test. Someone had pasted in a fourth missile, perhaps to cover up a dud launch. Top newspapers around the United States, to their chagrin, had given the bogus image frontpage treatment. (By pure luck, we weren't duped.)

Today, Danger Room's Noah Schachtman and Boing Boing's Xeni Jardin round up some hilarious parodies. My favorite, from the blog Are We Lumberjacks?:

Somehow, all the Photoshop fun has made Iran seem a lot less frightening. Almost like a big, friendly kitten.

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TEODORO

3:36 PM ET

July 11, 2008

Please use explicit links

Please use explicit links for us rss aggregator readers. /node/9221 doesn't work from the feed.
 

BLAKE HOUNSHELL

4:03 PM ET

July 11, 2008

Sorry about that

I didn't realize that was happening... the rich-tet editor automatically coverts them, so we may have to look under the hood.
 

MCJ

1:56 PM ET

July 12, 2008

Another one

I thought this one was good: http://bp1.blogger.com/_sgDXxnsAt8A/SHaSwwUSwtI/AAAAAAAAB2Y/eBjN2uU1mnE/s1600-h/IranMissileLaunch.jpg
 

APAPPAS

2:50 PM ET

July 12, 2008

Post production

As of when did Iran get post-production? Thought they just liked to build it themselves.
 

HASS

12:34 AM ET

July 16, 2008

Fun and games with photoshop

Just in case we forget who also resorts to fun and games with photoshop: http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2003/iraq-030205-powell-un-17300pf-21.jpg
 

TOMMMIE

1:34 AM ET

October 20, 2008

fun and games with photoshop

Hi everyone this is tomcruise from Alaska and i have joined this forum recently. i love photoshop and games.
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